Joining these groups is rather trivial. After reading them for about 6-8 months, here's my synopsis.
May be useful for Chron's/IBD based on user responses. No actual success in any clinical trials -- members always cite meaningless murine studies. Recently "study" they are citing is just a collection of user-reported results tabulated in a pretty way. Extraordinarily expensive if you live in the USA -- only sold for 3K+ by AIT. Plenty of parents infecting children for any and all autoimmune diseases. Also infecting children for autism (???). Very few members bother to report failure, they just disappear from the forums altogether.
Most members are practitioners of extreme alternative medicine, i.e. homeopathy, leeching, anti-EMF, other ungodly pseudo-scientific procedures I've only heard about from there. Anti-vaxx, everything.
Quite a few of the success stories that are touted are by individuals treating illnesses that are not recognized by modern medicine or very difficult to define. CFS, fibromyalgia, "total food intolerance", chronic lyme, multiple chemical sensitivities, you get the picture. (some of those are not like the others, my apologies if I offend anyone there)
Overall, a very dangerous community with very, very bad advice. Sure, there might be something to autoimmune disorders and parasites, but these communities are spreading dangerous bullshit at best and preying on very desperate people.
May be useful for Chron's/IBD based on user responses. No actual success in any clinical trials -- members always cite meaningless murine studies. Recently "study" they are citing is just a collection of user-reported results tabulated in a pretty way. Extraordinarily expensive if you live in the USA -- only sold for 3K+ by AIT. Plenty of parents infecting children for any and all autoimmune diseases. Also infecting children for autism (???). Very few members bother to report failure, they just disappear from the forums altogether.
Most members are practitioners of extreme alternative medicine, i.e. homeopathy, leeching, anti-EMF, other ungodly pseudo-scientific procedures I've only heard about from there. Anti-vaxx, everything.
Quite a few of the success stories that are touted are by individuals treating illnesses that are not recognized by modern medicine or very difficult to define. CFS, fibromyalgia, "total food intolerance", chronic lyme, multiple chemical sensitivities, you get the picture. (some of those are not like the others, my apologies if I offend anyone there)
Overall, a very dangerous community with very, very bad advice. Sure, there might be something to autoimmune disorders and parasites, but these communities are spreading dangerous bullshit at best and preying on very desperate people.