The Arizona Republic has raised an interesting question. Is it possible to use tapeworms as a diet aid? Won't the tape worm just sit in your stomach and consume all the extra food you eat, and after a while you can pull out the thing? The basic answer is no. This would not be a good idea. They go into some more details:
While a tapeworm might take in some of the food you do, it would at the same time be taking in a lot of vitamins and other nutrients you need to stay healthy. Do you know what ascites are? A big pool of fluid in your tummy caused by an immune response to something in your guts. Something like a tapeworm. It gives you a big potbelly, which runs kind of counter to the look you might be wishing for. And a tapeworm might not necessarily just set up camp in your innards. It can also cause cysts in your muscles, liver and eyes. Your eyes! So don't you think it might be easier instead to just eat a bit less and exercise a bit more?
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My weight problems has affected me physically as well as emotionally. After doing many online research, I decided to give it a try on the BEEF tapeworm. From the scientific evidence, it is relatively harmless.
I just swallowed a few cysts (not all of them will survive in my body). And hopefully it will make a difference this time.
To people who thinks this idea is disgusting: please do your homework first before making any comment on all parasite are DANGEROUS. There is so many allergies people from wealthy countries are experiencing, all due to weakened immune system as everything is so clean.
My plan is to keep my worm for only 3 months. If works, I will pause and do it again in order to reach my goal.
Good for you GAL the worm works just control it kill it and start it again.
The beef worm doesnt kill cows easily and there can be 100s of them mother %^uckers in the beast.
I did it it worked it was cool easy and no sweat
Garith
Please google "beef tapeworm" before posting such comment.
There are 3 stages of life cycle of tapeworm,
eggs->cysts ->adult, then back to eggs again. eggs->cysts is deadly dangerous, the cysts can grow everywhere, into lungs, brain, etc. But cysts->adult is harmless in the intestine.
Human can only be the definitive host for Beef tapeworm which means only adult beef tapeworm will survive inside of your intestine. And that's it. So if human swallow beef tapeworm cysts, it will become adult worm inside of you.
You can eat spoons of Beef tapeworm eggs and it won't survive in human, because cattle is the ONLY intermediate host. Only cattle is capable of growing cysts in its muscles if beef tapeworms eggs are present in the feed.
However, pork tapeworm is a different story. Human can be both intermediate and definitive host. Which means, it can complete the egg-cyst-adult cycle within human. So yes, if by accident you swallow some pork tapeworm eggs, it will grow cysts everywhere in your body. This is not the case with the beef tapeworm!!!
Please stop being ignorant. Hookworms and whipworms are used to combat certain diseases as a natural therapy. So why not beef tapeworm? As long as you are certain of what you swallow are beef tapeworm cysts, you are going to be safe.
The other thing is how rude and unpleasant a lot of comments are, don't you have any empathy for others ? There are a lot of people who are desperate to lose weight and fit into a society that highly values superficial appearance. Some people carry 'fat' genes that mean that their normal body weight is huge, their body will try to maintain that huge size. They have evolved because food was scarce and it was good for survival to carry the extra fat to get through tough times. In our world food is everywhere so the gene is now detremental... There has been some research on this, it seems that genetically the body is programmed to be a certain size and going against the weight the body means fighting it all the way. It's easy to mock fat people when your body is programmed to be thin and you can just call others lazy and glutenous.
I was very fit and thin until, I had to take steroids for my immune condition and I put on 4st. I have seen how people react differently to me and it's not pleasant to listen to arrogant, rude and stupid people simply telling me to diet.
I will be taking a tape worm to control my immune system, we have evolved to live with parasites and when living in a super clean place the body ramps up the sensitivity of the immune system looking for them, causing bad allergies. It's not a great solution but it wll be better than living off steroids - which do have dreadful side effects.
Let's not debate the morality of being over weight in a world where some people are starving, that's due to a political situation in society. Let's think of the individual.. some fat people are so desparate to lose weight they are undertaking stomache bypasses, now personally a tape worm seems the lesser or two evils.
Dear: Melissa
Yes, im infected with my very own pariste pal! What you need Melissa, is me! We could diet together! We could do everything together. You too can be infected with a pariste pal, a tapeworm, and me! And you will never be alone again! I promise. You will share everything with a parisite pal! Life can be rainbows, cottoncandy and me! PLUS, A new thiner yummyer looking Melissa! Will post my email if your interested?
Gregy
YOUR THE MORON, DUMASS!!!