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Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that has been studied for its potential role in diabetes, but the evidence is mixed.
Yes — parasites can and have been found in the human pancreas, but such occurrences are rare, geographically uneven, and medically distinct from viral/bacterial causes of pancreatic disease; documente...
Multiple lines of evidence—case reports, animal experiments, seroepidemiology and mechanistic papers—have linked parasites, most prominently Toxoplasma gondii, to pancreatic pathology or altered diabe...
A systematic search of the provided reporting finds no prospective human cohort studies that directly track Toxoplasma gondii seroconversion and then follow participants for incident (new-onset) diabe...
There is no established single parasite proven to cause type 2 diabetes, and therefore no scientifically supported claim that ivermectin “kills the parasite that is associated with type 2 diabetes.” S...