Guidelines for Self-administering Helminth Therapy with Dr. Nancy O’Hara

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Helminth therapy essentially refers to using health-promoting worms in a very similar manner to how we use probiotics. Healthy helminths may be an important, and missing, part of our gut microbiota communities. By restoring these to our intestinal tract it may be possible to reduce inflammation, balance the immune system and improve autoimmunity. Today we speak with Dr. Nancy O’Hara who has been using helminths in her clinical practice for years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
0:15.2	To make sure you're up to day on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Roushso.com and sign up to receive weekly updates.
0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:27.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.3	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.2	Now, let's head to the show.
0:39.8	Welcome to Dr. Rousha Radio. This is Dr. Roush Show today. I am here with Dr. Nancy O'Hara,
0:43.2	and we are going to be doing part three on Helmints. So, Nancy, welcome to the show today.
0:48.8	Thanks for having me.
0:50.0	It's a pleasure. I'm actually really excited to pick your brain. I know that this is an area that you have a lot of experience with.
0:55.6	And definitely want to jump into some of the details. But before we get there, can you give people a little bit of your background and how you got into this area of practice specifically?
1:05.2	Sure. I started my career as a teacher of children with autism about 35 years ago. And I was a really lousy teacher.
1:12.3	So I took the easier road and went to medical school and was doing developmental work and then a
1:19.8	general pediatric practice, had my master's in public health. And then while I was in practice,
1:25.3	had a couple of moms of children with autism who said,
1:29.4	if you ever do anything differently, we need somebody to integrate all of our care.
1:34.0	And about the same time, I had a young man who was four and a half, severe allergies,
1:39.5	allergic rhinitis, asthma, and autism, not speaking, who got remarkably better with taking dairy out of his
1:47.2	diet. It's a long story, and I won't bore you with all the details, but basically I told her,
1:52.5	well, that's hogwash. And she found my mentor, Dr. Sidney Baker, and said, you got to go talk to
1:59.7	him. And I resisted, but at the time I was going
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