alt:
"But as scientist Andrea Choe told me a few months ago, purifying water to make it drinkable comes with a tradeoff: we're not drinking enough worms. Choe's research, which she pursued while getting her PhD, found that parasitic worms secrete certain chemicals that interact beneficially with our bodies. "They can calm down the immune system and they're doing something that can promote wound healing," she said. When they don't, people with autoimmune disorders like asthma and rheumatoid arthritis and food allergies see their inflammatory response get hypercharged, attacking their own bodies."
