The chemical secreted by the tapeworm is noted to slow down the intestinal pulsation, if added to drug for humans it might increase the drugs effectiveness by ensuring the drug stays in the lower alimentary canal for long, ensuring maximum absorption the drug components into the body's blood stream as it will not be ejected from the body at the normal rate
Fermantion and cellular respiration in that they both begin with series of reaction known as glycosis, which break glucose molecules into smaller pyruvate molecules