• waigl@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Remember the whole “Ivermectin, the dewormer, helps against Covid” thing in the US? Researchers did look at those claims and came to the completely unsurprising conclusion that, unless you have gut parasites, Ivermectin does not help with anything, including Covid. However, if you do have parasites, the Ivermectin can remove a comorbidity, which is obviously going to help with just about anything, including Covid. (Unless you have the wrong kind of parasite, and the sudden presence of rotting worm corpses throughout your body leads to septic shock…)

    My takeaway from that is, modern day Americans probably have a lot more gut parasites than we used to think before Covid.

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      17 hours ago

      We Americans don’t actually have an obesity epidemic, we’re just completely full of parasites