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Celiac, hookwormed, and freely consuming gluten.

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Incubation failure

I followed the same technique I used last time that yielded such huge results, but this time basically I got zilch from two small jars. A few corpses and several uninspired zombie looking larvae moping around under my microscope's lens. Not enough to consider spending the time trying to get a harvest for an inoculation. The only thing different this round was the heat. It's been consistently over 30C in my non-air conditioned apartment this week. Damn global warming! Since I'm new at t
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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 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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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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Inoculation day!

I did the hookworm larva collection and inoculation today. It took 1/2 hr with doing everything right and safely, including clean-up. You can see the 5 jars I prepared a week ago in the pic. Only #2 jar had a good number of larvae so it was the only jar I used. I placed enough drops onto a checker board scored Petri dish until I had 25 and soaked them up onto a gauze bandage. It wasn't worth the effort to pipette out one extra larva in the last drop so I ended up with 26 this time. Thi
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