My medical condition

You really find it difficult to understand why people faced with a terminal illness would spend money on treatments that don't work? Well, let me explain it - they don't know it doesn't work, in fact they're told that it does, and they figure the "chance" is worth taking.You really find it unbelievable that people would spend money on ineffective treatments? Why, when people are going to psychic surgeons and having chelation treatments? And isn't that exactly what you think people are doing when they spend money on mainstream pharmaceuticals?Buz, it seems pretty obvious - from both of our perspectives - that people will spend a lot of money on "cures" that may not be any such thing, or may even make you sicker. In fact you're on the record as believing that to be true about mainstream medicine. Why the sudden skepticism that people are being fleeced by the late Gerson?

Oh, yeah, I heard about this on a Radiolab podcast. There was this guy with terrible allergies, made worse by the fact that he worked in landscaping, and he tried everything with no effect - till one day, he hears about endoparasites, and travels to Cameroon to stomp around barefoot around the village latrines until he gets hookworm. Boom - allergies gone. The idea is that the parasites have their own immune modulators to survive in the human body, and that their presence gives the human immune system a real target so it stops being so sensitive to minor infections and allergens.Apparently he moved to Canada and sells the hookworms online. Um, don't ask how he collects them. Trust me.Anyway a hookworm infestation is pretty easily controlled if it goes wrong. Maybe worth a look?