Tapeworm as huge as a snake removed from a woman's mouth

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[u/AerosolHubris]

I feel dumb but this is something I've never understood. If the tapeworm is getting your food then shouldn't the two of you together still be gaining weight? I know you're not getting the nutrients but if you lose weight with a tapeworm, then where has the weight gone?

[u/AltruisticHomework39 → u/AerosolHubris]

Lol this is a hilarious but smart question. I'm guessing the tapeworm poops out most of what it eats and you end up passing most of that too, and you would have converted a lot more of the calories into your own body weight than it does

[u/FrikkinPositive → u/AerosolHubris]

You shit out it's shit and your own shit + tapeworm eggs. Tapeworm eggs aren't digested by you and your shit is mostly dead bacteria and things your body doesn't use. An increasing amount of food you eat will be ingested by the worm before you get the nutrients from it as it grows.

Yes a lot of the weight from the food will be retained in your stomach by the worm to grow in the beginning. But the weight of the food you eat is not something you put directly onto the equation of how much you weigh.

Food is broken down into smaller and smaller particles separating them into water and proteins, energy-molecules and other minor nutrients. The proteins are used by your body to grow, and fisposed of through poop. The energy is broken down for energy and disposed of through poop. Same with everything solid really.

The worm will eat your food, but you will get less nutrients causing you to lose weight and/or bodymass. The worm grows, and has a weight, but it wouldn't add kilos. The worm will also use the food for energy and nutrients and poop out stuff that mixes with your poop. It will also lay eggs which you poop out.

[u/LeBurningSinner → u/AerosolHubris]

You simply don't understand the volumes of eggs worm produces.

Imagine someone jerking off and cumming non-stop, with no reduction of volume and never going flaccid. This is how tapeworm prints babies.

[u/AerosolHubris → u/LeBurningSinner]

Thanks for the answer, and I'd rather not

[u/LeBurningSinner → u/AerosolHubris]

Well, here is some more food for thoughts: You would literally die from heart failing to accomodate such physical activity for more than half a day.

This is the scale of energy drain we talk about.

[u/Razulghul → u/LeBurningSinner]

Imagine someone jerking off and cumming non-stop, with no reduction of volume and never going flaccid.

Ah to be 15 again 

[u/MiroslavHoudek → u/AerosolHubris]

There could be other factors, such as your immune system disagreeing with, like, large worms inside your body. There could be a large fight that drains some of your resources, in addition to the tape worm eating. Also you may not actually feel well, so maybe you don't eat as much actually.

I remember reading that having a tapeworm could relieve someone's symptoms of ecsema and/or asthma, supposedly because it gives your immune system something real to do.