I think &quot;inflammation&quot; is the modern day&#x27;s &quot;bad humors&quot;. We don&#x27;t really understand the relationship between inflammation and illness and yet inflammation get&#x27;s sold to the public as an important cause. Unfortunately, anti-inflammatory drugs don&#x27;t improve outcomes for heart disease or Alzheimer&#x27;s, even though inflammation is somehow implicated.<p>So mucking about with worms or other parasites to give the immune system something to do is most likely not a good idea until we better understand the underlying mechanisms.