Can parasites prevent autoimmune diabetes?

I wrote a guest post over at the Human Food Project on a study testing how parasites might stabilize the microbiome and prevent autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Prevention is if course the Holy Grail. Much better than trying to manage or halt ongoing autoimmune disease. I also encourage people to check out The American Gut Project, an open source attempt to catalog what’s living in… well, American guts.