Endotoxin: Part 1 – How Opportunistic Bacteria Damage Your Heart

by Jason Hooper | Jul 31, 2015 | Digestive Health, Endotoxin, Opportunistic Microorganisms

For the last decade, I have been finding articles about fecal matter transplants in rats. When scientists transplant fecal matter from an obese rat into a healthy rat, it soon becomes obese.1 There have been several other biological ailments that can also be assumed...

Schizophrenia Might Be Caused By Toxoplasma gondii

by John Brisson | Jun 16, 2015 | Digestive Health, Parasites

Schizophrenia might be caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. I wrote about Toxoplasma gondii years ago in Fix Your Gut. “Piperidine is used in both the treatment of parasites and worms in animals and the treatment of schizophrenia, in humans. Researchers...

Organisms Inside You – Part 3: Entamoeba histolytica

by John Brisson | Jan 9, 2015 | Digestive Health, Opportunistic Microorganisms, Parasites

Entamoeba histolytica is an opportunistic protozoan. Infection of the parasite occurs from ingestion of contaminated food and water. The parasite usually remains in the colon and cecum but can cause invasive infections in immunocompromised individuals. Histolytica can...

Organisms Inside You Part 2: Cryptosporidium

by John Brisson | Jan 2, 2015 | Digestive Health, Opportunistic Microorganisms, Parasites

There are some parasites that spread in more ways then ingestion of contaminated food and water. If you swim on a regular basis, you might have contracted Cryptosporidium, even if you swim in chlorinated pools. Cryptosporidium is a genus of apicomplexan protozoans...

Organisms Inside You – Part 1: Blastocystis hominis

by John Brisson | Dec 15, 2014 | Digestive Health, Opportunistic Microorganisms, Parasites

Blastocystis is a genus of single-celled protozoan, which its colonization in most cases is asymptomatic. The intestinal colonization of hominis is somewhat common because of the low host specificity of the protozoan.1  Colonization rates differ between developed...

All About Parasites and How to Reduce Your Parasitical Biome

by John Brisson | Sep 19, 2014 | Digestive Health, GERD, Opportunistic Microorganisms, Parasites, Reflux, SIBO

Even in the United States, it is still easy to become infected with parasites through contaminated water, 1 ingesting meat that isn’t cooked completely, 2 domesticated animals, 3 walking barefoot in dirt, 4 swimming in improperly treated water, 5 and even eating...