In years of scanning bodies — thousands of them now — I keep finding the same uninvited guest sitting underneath diagnoses that, on paper, have nothing to do with each other. Cancer. Stubborn, unmovable weight gain. Chronic inflammation nobody can name the source of. Different charts, different specialists, different rooms in the hospital. And underneath more of them than I think medicine is currently willing to ask about: parasites.

I don't say this to be sensational. I say it because I've watched it, client after client, for years, and I think the silence around it is costing people time they don't have.