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by toshk 1523 days ago
Somewhat related to your idea, they seem to have some success with parasitic therapy with things like Crone. Introduce a "harmless" parasite (worm) and the body's immunesystem to trigger it. Not sure how long they keep it in the body, seems to be mostly for a longer time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy