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      I do not expect this to be one of my popular posts, but it might deserve to be. There will be lots of science, but it ends up with a safe potential intervention that can be tried at home.  The good news is that it is inexpensive, tasty and there is already a pretty solid experimental basis for the intervention. Look in your extended family for relatives with diabetes, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and Parkinson’s Disease.  This might be useful indicator. The conclusion is to put some cinnamon in your tea or coffee. Parkinson’s Disease Two people recently mentioned Parkinson’s disease to me. Oxidative stress contributes to the cascade leading to dopamine cell degeneration in Parkinson's disease. This oxidative stress is linked to other components of the degenerative process, such as mitochondrial dysfunction, excitotoxicity, nitric oxide toxicity and inflammation. The familiar motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from the death of ...

T oday’s post is a short one. As you look deeper into how the body functions you come across many, only recently understood, pathways.  In reality these are still “works in progress”, but some will eventually lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and, eventually, many types of autism. Within this blog we have seen how many common diseases share some underpinnings with autism.  As a result these diseases appear more commonly in people with autism, and so they get called comorbidities. Some comorbidities get talked about quite a lot, things like epilepsy and MR/intellectual impairment. For me the really interesting ones and the ones that might actual lead you to some therapeutic implication.  In this respect, allergies (food and airborne) have proved to be the most useful. Not far behind are heart disease, diabetes and cancer. In Paul Whiteley’s blog he recently highlighted a study showing how heart disease was increased...