Pete Dixon

As I've written about before, the last time I ran out of hookworms (or perhaps effective hookworms) was with my first cycle spanning early August 2018 to the first week of March 2019. That end point was when I had to go back on a gluten-free diet. Putting those dates together that's 5 months for 2018 and 2 months of 2019. I was slow in testing gluten that time (because celiac!) but it's reasonable to think I could have gone on a regular diet after 40 days post inoculation.

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That would have made my non-celiac window from Sept 10th (hookworms matured and working) to say safely to Feb 21st. That's 164 days or 5 months and 11 days of gluten goodness.

When I restarted using hookworms a year or two later it was 39 days post inoculation that I had a successful gluten test. I used a small amount of bread, waited a day or two, felt fine, and resumed a regular diet immediately thereafter.

This cycle I had a gluten reaction on day 23 post-inoculation. It will be day 30 tomorrow. That reaction wasn't terrible. Stomach cramping, a little nausea, thought about vomiting but didn't, and had two gut content evacuations. Not a pleasant experience but it wasn't the end of the world.

What I plan on doing is consuming the same oatmeal that caused that grief once every 3 days starting tomorrow morning until I become gluten-tolerant again. Probably won't be fun the first 2–3 outings but I'll at least have a relatively pinpoint timing when my gluten tolerance comes back. I have a reasonable expectation I'll be good by day 39 based on that prior experience.

The things I do for science.