Robert F Kennedy Jr (R) and US president-elect Donald Trump (L).
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Appointed as head of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for United States president-elect Donald Trump's second term, Robert F Kennedy Junior revealed that he has a worm in his brain which he got by eating 'undercooked pork in India'.
Detailing about the medical abnormality he had experienced in 2010 which impacted his cognitive abilities, Robert said that the worm had entered his brain and later died after eating a portion of it.
In a podcast interview, Robert recalled that he had experienced brain fog, short memory and trouble in word retrieval.
Robert said that he was initially told by doctors that he suffered from brain tumour and planned to get a surgery until he consulted another doctor who after looking at his brain images, said that it didn't look like a tumour.
After the doctors measured the abnormality ruling that it hadn't grown, Robert was told "this is most certainly a parasite that got into your brain", to which he remarked, "Its a parasite that's very common in India where I did a lot of work."
Robert who calls himself an 'adventurous eater', speculated that the worm might have come by consuming undercooked pork during his travels in India.
Robert during the podcast said, "I loved tuna-fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time. I caught fish all the time and freshwater fish. I would fish and eat a lot of perch at very, very high levels. I loved tuna-fish sandwiches and freshwater fish. But the mercury poisoning, not the worm, was likely the cause of my memory loss."
Robert said that his tests revealed 'sky high' levels of mercury in his blood for which he underwent chelatin therapy.
According to a report by CNN, Robert said, "At the same time (discovery of worm in brain), I was having my mercury tested, and I was getting all kinds of tests, and my mercury test came back sky high. So, ten times what, you know, the EPA levels were for blood mercury, I think it was. They were over ten times what– what anybody considered safe. And I had that chelated out and all of that brain fog went away.”
Robert unapologetically remains adventurous about his eating habits asserting that he eats a variety of exotic meats and predatory fish.