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Liev Dalton presents a different interpretation of parasites, challenging the conventional view of them as harmful invaders.

Parasites are typically framed as invaders. Organisms to fear, eliminate, and cleanse from the body. That assumption runs deep, not only in conventional medicine, but increasingly in alternative health as well. In this conversation, Liev Dalton of Beyond Terrain presents a very different interpretation. Drawing from a wide range of literature, including human ingestion studies and ecological research, he argues that the presence of parasites does not equate to causation of disease. Across the...

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