Summary Of This Is Your Brain On Parasites By Kathleen Mcauliffe

The book This is Your Brain On Parasites written by Kathleen McAuliffe will open your eyes into a deep and dank would about how parasites can and will control your life. From worms controlling crickets to jump into water or wasps forcing spiders to spin a nursery for their master’s children.
McAuliffe does not try to comfort you as she directly tells us that parasites are real and they are no joke. She also gives comfort by describing how the parasites surgical skills are better than our best surgeons by being able to manipulate there hosts with a concoction of chemicals, hormones, and proteins. What rivals that of modern medicine. However you might state that this can’t happen to us mammals we are just too smart but McAuliffe has you covered by giving us the parasite

It, is a parasite what can affect mice and cats. But how does it control minds you might ask? It pretty ingenious, the parasite makes mice less fearful and makes them more likely to run in front of a feline making his chances of being eaten high, what in turn helps the parasite infect the cats what allows the parasite to survive and thrive. But those are only lower invertebrates this can’t happen to humans. Well that is not true Toxoplasma gondii can and will infect humans.
You might say though that even thou they do infect humans they can’t cause risky behavior. You guessed it wrong again. Toxoplasma gondii has been shown to cause risky behavior in humans from dangerous driving and possible even suicide. Moreover it has been proven that humans infected with Toxoplasma gondii have a greater risk of the development of schizophrenia.
Of course animals will not allow parasite to control us right. Yes, they do but in subtle ways like isolating the sick of a herd or mating with only good looking mates what smell good (aka. Healthy) and numerous other ways what help weed parasites out of the population. But humans don’t do this so how do humans avoid