Thomas Goetz

But in the United States these days, you have probably heard of ivermectin not as a treatment for river blindness, but for different purposes altogether.

So yeah, Google tells me that right now there are many tens of thousands of videos on YouTube raving about ivermectin.

But cancer?

Parasite cleanses?

And viruses?

What is this drug?

What does ivermectin do, really?

In this episode of Drug Story, we're going to tell the story of ivermectin, this amazing medicine.

We are going to talk about parasites a lot.

And we will dig into what got all those people on YouTube and Instagram talking about ivermectin.

What they hope it could be, what they believe it works on.

Not just parasitic diseases, but viral diseases like COVID or even cancer.

which would be great if there's, you know, evidence that it actually works for those other diseases.

So we're going to explore that today with an open mind, an open notebook, and an open door to science in the drug story ahead.

We tell each episode in three parts, the diagnosis, the prescription, and side effects.

This is part one, the diagnosis, where we explore the disease behind the drug.

or in this case, the diseases.

Because ivermectin is proven to work on many diseases, diseases with one thing in common.

They are caused not by a bacteria or a virus, but by an animal, a parasite.

Oftentimes, it's a type of worm called a helminth.