HOW ACCURATE ARE PARASITE TESTS? | Dr. Michael Ruscio

I said, well, the labs look normal. You look normal, you're really healthy, you have a low body fat, blah, blah, blah. And my response was, well, did you catch the dialogue I went through a few minutes ago where I used to feel great and now I feel really terrible, and they really didn't have anything to do for me, so I'd like to help you, Mike, but there's nothing here I'm seeing that I can aid with. So I ended up finding a functional medicine doctor who told me he thought I had a parasite. And I remember thinking to myself, this is bs I didn't go to Mexico. I didn't get food poisoning. I don't have any of the those stereotypical associations. You didn't need a hometown buffet. Yeah, right. Exactly. Exactly. But at that point, I said, well, what do I have to lose? Ended up doing a stool test and found that I had an amoebic infection, amoeba histolytica. And what was interesting was before the months before that, kind of in the interim, after I saw my conventional doctors, but before I found the functional doctor, I spent months going on the Internet and researching my symptoms, and I saw.