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Like the article says: "“It’s too soon to make any firm conclusions about a lot of this stuff, but it sure looks like the mitochondria are disrupted in many kid
by pdfernhout 5y ago
Like the article says: "“It’s too soon to make any firm conclusions about a lot of this stuff, but it sure looks like the mitochondria are disrupted in many kids with autism,” Frye says. “And environmental exposures, especially early on, may be programming the mitochondria to have different types of respiratory physiology.”"
You might find this of interest too from eleven years ago:
https://drhyman.com/blog/2010/12/09/breakthrough-discovery-on-the-causes-of-autism/ https://drhyman.com/blog/2010/12/09/breakthrough-discovery-o...
"Let’s look more closely at what this new study in The Journal of the American Medical Association tells us about mitochondrial dysfunction and how this may lead us to new methods of treatment—methods similar to the ones I used to help reverse Jackson’s autism. ...
This study forces the question: How do children acquire energy deficits that affect their whole system, not just the brain?
The causes of mitochondrial dysfunction are well known, specifically as it relates to metabolism and the brain, and I have documented them in my books UtraMetabolism and The UltraMind Solution. They include environmental toxins(iv)—mercury, lead and persistent organic pollutants(v)—latent infections, gluten and allergens (which trigger inflammation) sugar and processed foods,(vi) a nutrient-depleted diet,(vii) and nutritional deficiencies.(viii) These are all potentially treatable and reversible causes of mitochondrial dysfunction that have been clearly documented.
I found all these problems in Jackson, and over a period of 2 years we slowly unraveled and treated the underlying causes of his energy loss which included gut inflammation, mercury, and nutrient deficiencies. Over time, the tests for his mitochondrial function and oxidative stress (as well as levels of inflammation and nutrient status) all normalized. When they became normal, so did Jackson. He went from full-blown regressive autism to a normal, bright beautiful 6-year-old boy.
This is just one story, but if autism can be reversed in one child, if there is any possibility of effective treatments or a potential cure, it forces us to ask critical questions: How did this happen? Can it happen in other children? What were the biological patterns found and how were they treated?"
And if it applies to young brains, why would it not apply to older brains?
- resoluteteeth 5y agoThis person claims to be able to cure autism?
- goldenkey 5y agoIt's not like autism is a bacteria or a virus. It's a syndrome. Syndromes are just a grouping of a bunch of symptoms, in the case of autism, a bunch of disorders (things that aren't normal.)
- KMag 5y agoThe difference between (vi) a nutrient-depleted diet and (vii) nutritional deficiencies is supplementation, non-dietary factors affecting absorption, or something else?
- dempsey 5y agoMy pet theory on autism is the Back to Sleep campaign that began in the 90s. (1) Babies don’t like back sleeping. It disrupts their sleep. Sleep is important in brain development. Constantly disrupted sleep means a higher percentage of brain development issues. I can back up my pet theory with studies. Bottom line is, stomach sleeping with good air circulation (2) reduces SIDS at similar rates to back sleeping without the side effect of autism. 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978628/ 2: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/380273 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
- iwasbornin2021 5y agoThe Chinese traditionally make babies sleep on their backs. You should check out their historical autism rate
- dempsey 5y agoCare to cite a study or data? I know sleep researches studying this issue at UCLA and elsewhere and would love to share it with them. We were looking for natural experiments. Ideally somewhere that babies are still stomach slept. Much like Israel and peanut snacks in the study of peanut allergies, it’s hard to change a protective paradigm without a natural experiment. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/eating-peanuts-prevents-allergy https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/eating-peanuts-preve...
- iwasbornin2021 5y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=china+babies+sleep+on+their+back&oq=china+babies+sleep+on+their+back&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30.13449j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=china+babies+sleep+on+their+... https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/30/chinese-swaddled-not-coddled/9e7ed946-842b-4013-9b49-24ef805442ab/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/30/c... The WaPo article is very illuminating re: how Chinese babies were raised. As it was published almost 30 years ago, those babies are now established Chinese adults. Makes you wonder how much they're shaped by how they were reared.
- meh99 5y agoOther researchers claim autism is an emotional evolution. I’m disinclined to trust our contemporary society with deciding whether autism is good or bad. A difficult scenario for parents, perhaps, but I feel that’s better handled by society pulling its head out of its ass and providing a system that supports such situations.
- text70 5y agoMore research needs to be done looking at the interactome between commensal bacteria and mitochondria, given their prokaryotic genetic overlap, current understanding of lateral gene transfer, and what the overlap, if any, they have with endogenous CRISPR/CasX biomolecular motifs.