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Canadian naturopath and practitioner of alternative medicine (1928–2009)
Social media claims that parasites — especially the pancreatic fluke Eurytrema pancreaticum or unnamed “corrosive” worms — are the root cause of diabetes have been repeatedly promoted online but syste...
No—there is no credible evidence that or Dr. Oz "found" a parasite that causes diabetes; the claim originates from AI‑generated advertising that falsely used their likenesses to sell a and echoes a lo...
No evidence in the supplied reporting supports a thing called a “blue parasite” as a treatment or cause of type 2 diabetes; the literature instead explores how certain helminths (parasitic worms) or t...
(Artemisia spp.) has demonstrated antiparasitic activity in laboratory and some animal studies and is widely promoted in traditional and commercial “,” but there is no direct, reliable evidence that w...
A widely circulated claim that Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife discovered a rapid cure for Type 2 diabetes caused by a pancreatic parasite is unsupported by available reporting and expert fact checks; th...
is a pancreatic fluke that infects mainly ruminant animals and can damage pancreatic tissue in those hosts, producing pathological changes that in animals have been associated with altered pancreatic ...
The short answer: parasites do not cause diabetes as a general rule, but a growing body of research shows complex links — diabetics often have higher rates of intestinal parasitic infections in some s...