 What's up, how are you guys today? We are talking about parasites more specifically the idea of Some type of big bad worms swimming around in your stomach eating all the food making you sick and There's a lot of fear mongering around that in a sense that Parasites are not nearly as common as you would think you know There's so many cleanses Protocols like parasites help them as people are selling online posting weird pictures of their bowel movements thinking they have parasites Which will generally not survive in a healthy Functioning person, you know usually they're sick or unhealthy or immuno compromised in the first place in order for the Parasite to be able to survive the human digestive system. I mean yeah in some cases you will have severe weight loss Extreme hunger nausea diarrhea deficiencies, but those symptoms can actually be identical to candida overgrowth a fungal infection which are far more common and more likely and Just as dangerous if not more dangerous to your health, you know extreme cases of sebo sefo Will have people thinking that they have a parasite infection and then if you think about okay What did I eat? What did I do? You know am I traveling in a new country? It's very very unlikely that you actually have a parasite and you can't really blame people for self Diagnosing this stuff because a lot of the time doctors don't know how to fix digestive issues So you know you look at your bowel movement. You see some weird stuff You think you have a parasite whether it looks like you know eggs or segments of a worm Might not actually be the case You know it can be easily tested by submitting a stool sample to a lab, you know, just go to your doctor Say you ate something weird. You're having stomach issues You know ask him if you can get tested for a parasite and you're probably not going to have it Which then makes you worried because you still have digestive issues and it's not a parasite Now these protocols these parasite cleanses Big problem is that the elements that are in those can make the bowel movements reminiscent of a parasite, you know Candida itself the fungus Sometimes looks like strings which someone might think is a worm but they have Candida, you know doing extreme antimicrobials can strip the gut lining and you'll have strands of mucus parts of your intestinal lining Which looks similar to a worm. I mean I guess a little bit Anything involving seeds or pills like capsules can easily look like eggs So it's much easier to say that you know you have digestive issues as Opposed to looking at your poop and thinking you have a parasite You know I see people eating like papaya and pumpkin seeds and then saying that they're you know pooping out like the eggs from the Where it's just you know it's there's a lot of stuff that that can be very deceptive and you know There's a lot of Profit that comes from that fear mongering to get people to do this stuff not to say that you might not have a parasite But it's definitely definitely definitely overstated now there is an idea that parasites can be kind of like an end stage of disease where the body is so weak that They're just taking hold and actually trying to help seemingly So it might start with food intolerances You start trying to follow these diets and fix the problem It just gets worse and worse and worse then you end up with the fungal infection the sebo the sefo the digestive issues and then You know that can suck nutrition from your body things can get worse and worse the fungal infection can take hold and then You have this really bad dysbiosis, but organs aren't functioning. There's like no acidity. There's no digestive capability So then if you do consume something that has any type of parasite It's going to be very easy for it to replicate and then take hold in your digestive system But in reality, you know those parasites are eating the food you're eating and then the waste that the parasites are excreting is Actually nutrition for your body. So it's not always or necessarily a bad thing You know that being said there are some unnatural amounts of parasites occurring in certain food sources, you know I mean sometimes in extreme extreme concentrations and Since most people aren't healthy It can be pretty easy from parasites to be introduced from modern food sources So I made a list of the nine most common parasites and we're going to kind of go over them where they're from If you should be concerned at all starting with entomibia histolytica which is from ice cream fruit typically packaged conventional products and a lot of these parasites Almost half of them more than half of them are from fecal matter Which is more of an issue in third-world countries and just food pollution, you know if the water source is contaminated Including this one it can replicate in the digestive system and migrate to other tissues in the body Sometimes asymptomatic and in some cases liver abscesses Can be formed and I mean in like really really crazy cases in immunocompromised patients They say it can cause some type of hemorrhaging and liver failure But you know when you look up cases of this, you know, there's not really that many reported. There's not case studies. So Most people when they get it again asymptomatic or probably just get a little sick for some period of time Again from, you know polluted food sources, you know, it's not like it naturally occurs in a food that you have to avoid Then we have anise keys, which is probably the most common parasite that you'll see on social media as you know it's a roundworm you'll see in fish all the time and Honestly, most fish have this you know, I've cut up a lot of fish myself and I think almost like every large salmon or Mungfish has had these in the flesh, you know It's why they freeze fish before you consume them Especially the sushi and they're so small that they can't really penetrate the human intestines So if you did eat a lot of these, you know, they're gonna like get stuck die and then your body might have an immune response from that but Usually people eat these and they just kind of go through the digestive system or the worms are already dead So it's not really something that you should be worried about. I mean if you're eating a lot of raw fish by yourself then You know, that's at your discretion next up is a scarce lumbosoides and It's from vegetables again the polluted water issue. So, you know, we're getting Animal-based fertilizers manure that's contaminated and that's being put on the vegetables and then it's being sent to the grocery store and people eat it Asymptomatic just like the first one and I'm gonna repeat this over and over again Mute compromised sick unhealthy people. Maybe there's a chance they get a large amount of this and some type of vegetable and it makes them sick, but Not something to really be worried about up next. We have cryptosporidium Again, it's a pollution issue a lot of the time It's from chicken and you know, sometimes the chickens are eating very low quality water Who knows some type of sewage might have gotten in the water source You know, it can take hold and replicate in the digestive tract, but it is commonly Asymptomatic and and that's the theme guys, you know, we said it earlier Healthy people generally parasites are not able to take hold then we have cyclosporica eutanasis which is sometimes found in fruits imported usually and it can cause travelers diarrhea Although this is really really rare same as the other stuff. It's from Polluted fruits and vegetables, which is from the manure and you know, sometimes sick farm animals can have a lot of parasites So there's so many different things that might be in there next up. We have defilobotherium, which is Probably what people are envisioning in their head when you talk about the parasite. This is from larger fish Especially salmon. It's a segmented tape worm and I guess you might get it if you ate, you know The flesh and it had the eggs in there, which are kind of like cysts This can grow very large, you know, hypothetically it would take over your digestive system start causing vitamin deficiencies You know laying millions and millions of eggs. I mean this these can get like 20-30 feet long so they can basically halt your entire digestion and consume everything themselves That being said it's so rare There's an average of one case recorded per year out of the millions and millions and millions of people and The the most common places for this are like Korea where you know, maybe they're drinking a lot and eating raw fish so the alcohol inhibits their liver and then you know the digestive system doesn't break down the eggs or whatever and Even when people got it it was like a really quick treatment of like an anti-parasite and it was basically gone Thasiola hepatica more commonly known as the liver fluke, which is again from Contaminated vegetables specifically lettuce, you know, they use the manure from The animals that might have had the liver flukes and then you end up eating it yourself Where it can penetrate the gut Migrate to the bile ducts where the flukes mature and then they go to the liver and on the liver They can cause hemorrhaging and liver damage I'm actually curious if These are like a natural protective organism where You know if the animal has liver damage or maybe they've been eating too much of like a very astringent Grass or something that the liver fluke is actually protecting the liver You know imagine you have parasite on your liver and it's sucking out stuff So kind of like a natural detox. I don't know it's it's possible. It's possible. It's kind of a natural detox but who knows Giardia lambia I guess The most common one that hits the news headlines a lot, you know, you see Giardia outbreaks all the time It can be in vegetables, but also Known to be in contaminated water sources, especially public pools this will colonize the small intestine and At a case rate of 9.1 per 100,000 You know 9.1 per 100,000 doesn't see you know, it's less way less than 1 percent. So That's still the most common parasitic infection that I'm aware of Usually treated with antibiotics so I mean by now you guys can see like a lot of these that we've gone over, you know It's not the typical big bad worm swimming around in your stomach. These are like much smaller Organisms that don't have those properties necessarily. Then we have trichinella Trichinosis, I guess a lot of carnivore dieters might know about this But there's been no reported outbreaks since 2016 Sometimes people warn you like not to eat raw pork because of this, but It's more relevant to wild meat specifically bear meat sometimes boar meat Not really found in pigs and pork anymore And you get this from eating like the cysts that were in the bear meat so The worms will grow in the small intestine and then migrate to the the muscle tissue which can kind of cause spasms and cysts There was like a joe rogan podcast with steve rinella Who's a hunter and he got trichinosis from eating like undercooked bear meat. So I mean it's it's not really relevant guys a lot of this stuff is not relevant For the most part unless you're doing kind of like crazy stuff like eating large amounts of food and unsanitary conditions or large amounts of Improperly prepared raw fish or you know, you're a crazy hunter eating bear tartare. So to me You know the parasite conversation Shouldn't really be had it's it's most likely another digestive issue So thank you guys for joining me. Hopefully you've learned a little bit And I'm just going to relay back to the candida the cibo the fungal infections We've done a lot of protocols on how to heal your gut. So, uh, you know There's no need to do these extreme cleanses or extreme antimicrobials You want to figure out what your diet is? What's wrong? What you need to do and that's usually a matter of following a pretty strict balanced organic diet Incorporating high quality probiotics specifically water keeper Maybe taking certain supplements and possibly like a light antimicrobial like mastic gum So if you guys do want to support me, you can check out frank dash defano dot com Outside of that as always guys, please drop a like on the video Leave a comment down below Subscribe so that youtube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell So they don't notify you of my videos. Thanks again guys. We'll see you soon I finally dug through my uh, my boxes and got my iron out and I'm looking somewhat presentable