Presentation on Toxoplasma: Tomorrow's Paid Subscriber Call

A presentation about "the most successful parasite in the world"

A few weeks ago, I promised during our Friday paid subscriber call to do a presentation on Toxoplasma gondii, an intracellular parasite that infects every third or possibly every second person in the world—and that in the long run can be far more destructive than originally thought. It is rather ubiquitous, people can get infected with it in many more ways than just “cats.” It can also sit relatively quiet for many years or even decades, and then get aggressive when immunity drops due to older age, excessive stress, accumulation of toxins, immunosuppressive vaccines (that can be additionally contaminated with a bunch of microbes)).

So tomorrow, I will make the presentation and share what I found in my research and how I connected the dots.

Importantly, we’ll talk about using this knowledge in a way that promotes joy, not fear. Fear is no good, no matter what.

Here is the link to paid subscriber chat.

Here is the link to my Substack page with articles on the general topic of health, philosophy of medicine, and parasites.

If you are a paid subscriber and for some reason, can’t open the link to the chat, please let me know!

PS. Fun fact: Toxoplasma gondii was identified a little over a hundred years ago. During the early days, in labs where the scientists were experimenting with toxo, they had cats who were free to roam around, in and out. The cats were there to catch escaped infected rodents. Well, it so happens that cats are definitive hosts of toxo. If they eat an infected rodent, the parasite will be very happy and start sexually reproducing in the cat’s gut, producing a very large number of infectious oocysts, that then go anywhere the cat relieves itself, be it the lab floor, soil, water, etc. Allegedly, toxo wasn’t a very prevalent parasite in the olden days (at least that’s what they say). But then the scientists got excited, started “researching,” and now it’s a prevalent parasite. Institutional science, yay!

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