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Celiac, hookwormed, and freely consuming gluten.

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A two for four incubation

Last week I set four small jars going, and today I gave them a look. Two of the jars were completely devoid of larvae. The other two were "B-" results, enough for inoculation but would require a fair amount of work collecting the larvae as the observed quantity was low. Think maybe 5% of best jars I've seen so far. I'm becoming convinced this is truly all about the quantity of eggs in the stool. If the colony is having an off day and not releasing many eggs, resulting incubations will alway
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A recent Helminthic Therapy research article

Published 12 September 2024: Health-promoting worms? Prospects and pitfalls of helminth therapy A good summary of the topic with the low-down that more research is needed. In regard to celiac disease, the article says that while clinical studies haven't shown substantial results, self-treaters show consistent success (like me). I've mentioned this before, but doing a gluten challenge at 20 days post inoculation for a hookworm/celiac trial is doomed to fail. Necator americanus doesn't m
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This time, a big incubation success!

The temperature was cooler for a stretch here near Detroit, so a week ago I decided to have another crack at incubating. As luck would have it, a day after I set up my jars, the temperature shot right back up again. I don't have A/C in my apartment, so I figured I had just wasted my time, but this morning when I checked one of the small jars I found things were hopping! In just a couple of drops there were all the larvae I would need, bopping and weaving, looking healthy as all heck. I didn
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A HT support group admin recently added her hookworm incubation protocol

https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/NA_incubation:_super-simple_method_by_Laurel?fbclid=IwY2xjawIGlQJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUN-S9qo1ycPwriUfGr-_YYKVdu0kU_SuuYPPVcA_4q4Q4lrinbrr9g1Yw_aem_yAzwI8x20ZQN4ZIfGsUJzQ It's very close to what I do, except I wet the stool to make sure it doesn't harden and I use 5 jars at time since experience has taught me that some jars will be barren.
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Inoculation and video development

On September 23, 2025, I did my latest inoculation. It was right around the five-month mark — plenty of time to avoid the expected adult hookworm die-off in my gut at around 6 to 6.5 months. I never noticed any interruption of “worm services.” Neither my gluten reactions nor the colitis ever reared their ugly heads, so it appears I had a smooth transition with the new hookworms. This time, out of the five small jars I prepared, four were almost entirely vacant of larvae — but one was hoppin
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