A Common Parasite: Entamoeba Histolytica

Parasites 🦠 are so much more common than you think!! Today I want to highlight a nasty one called Entamoeba Histolytica.

Here are a few fun facts about it:
👉🏻 It infects 30-55 million people worldwide
👉🏻 More common when living or traveling to tropical areas
👉🏻 Transmitted through contaminated food or water
👉🏻 Pets can be a source of exposure
👉🏻 Sexual contact may also be a source of exposure
👉🏻 Can affect the liver and cause liver accesses
👉🏻 Can spread to other organs like the lungs and brain but is not as common
👉🏻 Causes leaky gut
👉🏻 Can cause abdominal pain/cramping and loose stools

When we see this pathogen, we also take a good look at the calprotectin and SIgA levels to see what their inflammatory and immune response is.

Then create a protocol using the 5R Method:
☑️ Remove: includes antiparisitic herbals and essential oils
☑️ Replace: digestive support to improve overall digestion
☑️ Reinoculate: recolonization with pre and probiotics
☑️ Repair: improving the immune system, decreasing inflammation, repairing the gut lining
☑️ Rebalance: we work on sleep, diet/lifestyle, movement, stress

It is a process but having a gut that is healed and being free of symptoms whether GI related or extra-GI manifestations (weight gain, brain fog, hormone imbalance, poor immunity, skin breakouts, etc) is worth it’s weight in GOLD!!!