Parasites controling your cravings. How true?

p.s. Am I the only one who thinks the my fetus is a parasite joke is creepy? If you think your kid is parasite please don't spawn any more into the world. We're almost at 10 billion. Thanks in advance.

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine?

No, don't find it creepy in the least.

Is sarcasm and ridicule a common practice on this site? I have never posted anything or logged into the community portion of the application, this is my first time. I am a little disappointed. No question is silly in the quest for health is it? Anyhow I have heard there are different types of parasites as well. Most common in the developed world are pinworms, as per my close friend who is a physician. But mostly in school age children and associated. They are treated with a strong medication. I would say if you are having a lot of cravings for sweet you could have Candida which is an overgrowth of yeast in the gut. Candida can cause a whole host of issues weight gain, mood, swings, depression etc. This can be quite prolific and is VERY difficult to treat. Basically you would need to cut out all sugar including grains, fruit and even some sweet vegetables for awhile. Plus you would need a lot of probiotics and prebiotics. You could also be low in some nutrients, vitamin B, zinc, iron etc. Not too sure what relates to what craving but I know there are. Most likely it is one of these two since in North America our processed and antibiotic laden diet leads to these sorts of things. Don't get too caught up in the "OMG I HAVE WORMS!" thing. It plays tricks with your head. Focus on health first and naturally the other related issues usually subside.

Were you perhaps thinking of this, http://keybiotics.com/video_toon15c.php. ? My brother sent it to me, but at nearly an hour long I didn't have the patience to watch it. No idea if its bunk or a sales pitch or what...

They are trying to sell you something..

In - For later this seems entertaining

p.s. Am I the only one who thinks the my fetus is a parasite joke is creepy? If you think your kid is parasite please don't spawn any more into the world. We're almost at 10 billion. Thanks in advance.

Since you seem to have a fantastic sense of humor (I sure hope your sarcasm detector is working!) let me explain..

The mother (host) supplies nutrients and blood to an organism that grows and grows... Some tend to release and are expelled on their own, some are removed with the help of drugs.

Now, am I talking about having a baby or a parasite? Pretty similar, huh??

Is sarcasm and ridicule a common practice on this site? I have never posted anything or logged into the community portion of the application, this is my first time. I am a little disappointed. No question is silly in the quest for health is it? Anyhow I have heard there are different types of parasites as well. Most common in the developed world are pinworms, as per my close friend who is a physician. But mostly in school age children and associated. They are treated with a strong medication. I would say if you are having a lot of cravings for sweet you could have Candida which is an overgrowth of yeast in the gut. Candida can cause a whole host of issues weight gain, mood, swings, depression etc. This can be quite prolific and is VERY difficult to treat. Basically you would need to cut out all sugar including grains, fruit and even some sweet vegetables for awhile. Plus you would need a lot of probiotics and prebiotics. You could also be low in some nutrients, vitamin B, zinc, iron etc. Not too sure what relates to what craving but I know there are. Most likely it is one of these two since in North America our processed and antibiotic laden diet leads to these sorts of things. Don't get too caught up in the "OMG I HAVE WORMS!" thing. It plays tricks with your head. Focus on health first and naturally the other related issues usually subside.

This is commonly referred to as 'hearing hoofbeats and first thinking zebras, not horses'.

The point is that in 99% of cases the reason we crave sweet stuff is because sweet stuff tastes good and we are weak. People grasp for solutions that absolve them of accepting and addressing their weakness. Long term this does nothing to help them improve.

That's why we tend to be unaccepting of this type of thread.

p.s. Am I the only one who thinks the my fetus is a parasite joke is creepy? If you think your kid is parasite please don't spawn any more into the world. We're almost at 10 billion. Thanks in advance.

if all the people who had a sense of humour stopped breeding as per your request, then all the sense of humour genes would be lost from the gene pool. This would result in future generations of people who totally lack a sense of humour and aside from the fact that that would be a tragic, tragic waste of human potential, it would result in generations of boring humourless people who only see the dismal side of life. The suicide rates would soar and the species would ultimately go extinct, and as we're the only species left in our genus, and the only genus left in our entire lineage, that would be a horrible, horrible demise of a most fascinating and unique clade. Then the bonobos would take over our evolutoinary nice and evolve big brains and develop advanced technology and then take over the planet. Kind of like "planet of the apes" only with much more sex, because bonobos. So everyone panic now.





On a more serious note, while parents may joke about their kids being rugrats, parasites and the like, they actually love their kids to bits and would never say anything like that to the kids. I don't think one single parent on this thread actually thinks their kid is a parasite.

The real tragedy in your hypothesis is all the parasites would starve. Whole little wriggly families, wiped out. When everyone know that all we have to do is build an undersea pineapple house and the nematodes will drink it and leave. Wheres the compassion?

The thing hat has been killing me all morning is the idea that doctors in the USSR 'weren't in it for the money'. Well, duh.

There is some truth to that, but not as dramatically as what you stated. Not "controlling your mind completely".

This topic makes me think of the original Alien movie from '79.

Tell you what, once that parasite got into your system the human host was doomed and don't even talk about how the damn critter exited the host after it's gestation period was complete.

That movie scared the crap out of me at the time.

My son asked for and recieved this for Christmas http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a9d5/

and yeah, birth... both c-sections made me long for the days where they knocked you out. At least I got sewn back up again.