Giardiasis

Your intestine is in revolt. Cramps, watery diarrhea, bloating, nausea — sometimes for weeks. The cause is medically clear: Giardia lamblia, a parasite that nests in your small intestinal mucosa, feeds on your nutrients, and throws your digestive tract into chaos. Treatment is unambiguous and necessary — an infection requires medical care, not self-interpretation.

And yet a second look is worthwhile. Not as a substitute for medicine, but as a complement. Because the question BodySignal asks does not concern the parasite itself — it concerns the pattern behind it: why does your system allow something from outside to enter and feed at your expense? What in your inner balance is so skewed that you become susceptible to something that takes without giving?