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GROSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Tapeworm Diet How do I get one? There is no easy way as of now. United States federal law prohibits the sale and/or transport of taenia saginata cysticercus. If one was inclined they could travel to a part of the world where beef tapeworms are endemic and infect themselves that way. But this raises a whole spectra of problems unique to travelling to third-world countries and performing unsupervised medical experiments on your body. I have the cyst, what now? First thing, are you sure you have beef? If there is any doubt, then you don't do anything. Period. If your sure it's beef then you should know the condition of the animal when it was slaughtered. Was it healthy? If there is any doubt, then you don't do anything. To be sure of these two conditions beyond doubt you should have observed the slaughter of the animal and the subsequent dissection of the cysts out of the carcass. Period. I have a cyst and I am sure it is from a cow. Do I just swallow the cysts now? As strange as it may sound, you probably could and be okay, but I strongly recommend against this. I am aware of several researchers who have done it this way and have stayed healthy, but this seems unnecessarily risky as there are a range of pathogenic microorganisms common to the domestic cow. I strongly suggest following a stricter protocol. What protocol? Pretreatment of at least four cysts with UV radiation and antibiotic solution. Dividing the batch into two and activating one of these half batches with a solution of pig bile. After microscopically observing the protoscolex, and only then, would I ingest a cyst from the second batch. Okay I'm infected, now what? Now you get home and tell your doctor what you've done. Your physician in addition to giving you the correct prescription for killing the tapeworm should be aware of your condition in case you should have any unusual adverse reactions. In at least one documented case a woman from the Netherlands had her intestines perforated by a tapeworm. Of course this is exceedingly rare, but again why take anymore risks than necessary. The next couple weeks should be rather uneventful. Around the third or fourth week you'll notice an increase in your appetite and in some people bloating and pain around your upper abdomen. This pain should be mild and comparable to gas pain. If your pain gets more than uncomfortable you take the Praziquantel prescribed by your doctor and kill the worm. Period. Otherwise you cruise, that is eat right and exercise until around week ten. At this point the prepatent period of the worm will be ending and this means the worm will start shedding off segments. It's time to kill the worm. Not only are they extremely unpleasant when they migrate out of your digestive system, but these segments represent a very real health risk. The motile segments can wedge themselves into the pancreatic duct or appendix both of which will result in conditions that can kill you. So, take your Praziquantel at 1mg/kg of body weight and say goodbye to your buddy. How much weight can I expect to lose? Weight loss varies from individual to individual, but for a single tapeworm you would expect between one and two pounds a week as the worm matures. I know of instances where individuals have super-infected themselves and lost weight at a faster rate, but have also suffered a much higher incidence of side-effects. It is important to be realistic about weight loss and a rate of a pound to a pound and a half a week is ideal. Will I keep the weight off when I kill my worm? That all depends on you. I have noticed a significant rebound effect especially when hosting multiple worms. When you infect yourself you will get hungrier and eat more. If you reinforce poor eating habits during your infected period you can expect the weight to return when your worm is gone. How does a tapeworm make you lose weight? The beef tapeworm secretes proteins that hijack the human intestine by either speeding it up or slow it down depending upon the location of the secreted protein in the digestive tract. The net effect is to make us less efficient at digesting our food. And efficiency is the name of the game in digestion. Consider, the average person ingests 2,000 Kcal a day, so a decrease in efficiency of twenty percent would be 400 Kcal a day or 2,800 Kcal a week. That is almost a pound a week. A tapeworm competes for calories with a host but not just any calories. The tapeworm manipulates the speed of the digestive process so that it optimizes it's interface with the nutrients the worm needs to develop, and that is why a person who loses ten pounds during an infection won't be hosting a ten pound worm. It is this process that is also responsible for the side effects of tapeworm infection that occur before the worm becomes sexually mature. An interesting aside that may demonstrate how sophisticated this interaction between host and parasite; newly infected individuals often report cravings for specific foods. One, cannot help but wonder if the worms are directing their hosts to ingest foods that contain nutrients optimal for their growth. |
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Um... that isn't safe. I almost died in the hospital because thats what I got when I was three. I was born 10 lbs, by three I was just above average weight, then I got sick with the tapeworms. My metabolism skyrocketed and I've always been at least 20 lbs underweight since.
The moral of the story is don't try this shit on purpose. |
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