Parasite cleansing has gone from fringe topic to mainstream conversation — and with that surge in interest has come an equally large surge in programs, protocols, supplements, and online courses promising to rid your body of parasites and transform your health.

Some of them work. Many of them don't. And a few of them — if done in the wrong order, at the wrong dose, or without the right support — can make you significantly worse before they make you better, or worse, mobilise toxins without adequate drainage support, sending you into a healing crisis that takes weeks to recover from.