Would the FDA be averse to a business model selling the parasites to introverts? There are prebiotics and probiotics. Some doctors use maggots to remove dead tissue.
I think OSHA and DOT should have a problem with it and its risks in the wild have really only been so ignored because of the silos of these agencies.
(The cat lady on the Simpsons and the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland each express the same kind of model/correlated stereotypes for diseases with varying mental symptoms that weren't well understood in their time.)
Naturally, most people with Toxoplasmosis don't have psychotic outbursts and most hatters look dashing.
This is weird, for the longest time I thought that T. Gondii had the exact opposite effect - making someone more introverted. Apparently that was/is true only for males, whereas it's supposed to make women more extraverted.
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Naturally, most people with Toxoplasmosis don't have psychotic outbursts and most hatters look dashing.
This seems...bad? In contrast with simply being more "outgoing".
https://www.medicaldaily.com/toxoplasma-gondii-parasite-cat-...
I have not encountered "outgoing" anywhere.
A course of antibiotics is said to cure both the infection and the behavior.
But they apparently only work against the active form, parasite can still lie dormant in brain.
Probably not, since antibiotics work against bacterial infections, and Toxoplasma Gondii is not a bacterium.
Wikipedia says it's a eukaryote. Means I probably still have it.