Monsters Inside Me is a television documentary series about parasites

Parasitism

Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. Traditionally parasite referred to organisms with lifestages that needed more than one host . These are now called macroparasites...

 that live on or, in many cases, inside the human body.

Summary

Each episode has dramatizations that show illnesses caused by parasitic infection. Once the parasites have been identified, their life cycles are illustrated. Justin Peed is the narrator, and biologist

Biologist

A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

 Dan Riskin, PhD, explains how and why each parasite finds its host.

A season 2 has been announced and Animal Planet is currently taking parasite story submissions on the show's website.

The second season premiered on Wednesday June 9, 2010.

As of January 7, 2011, Monsters Inside Me can be seen in Canada on DiscoveryScience.

Episodes

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Reception

Mike Hale of The New York Times said that "there’s science amid the frightening stories and said that the series really grossed him out." Anne Louise Bannon of Common Sense Media said that "parents need to know that there is a lot of gross stuff in the series and the show has good educational content except for the tips on how to protect yourself from parasites because the information is vague".