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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 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...
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...
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...