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  Nestle’s research centre in Lausanne, Switzerland I did write extensively about the potential to treat some autism using the ketone BHB (beta hydroxybutyrate). This can be achieved either by following a strict ketogenic diet or just by eating medical foods that contain/produce BHB. Some readers are now big consumers of BHB supplements and anyone taking BHB should be interested in today’s paper, that I assume was paid for by Nestlé. Nestlé make everything from baby milk formula to George Clooney’s Nespresso.   You may not be aware that they also have a business selling medical food; they have been looking at ketones to treat Alzheimer’s for some time.   This is quite similar to Mars developing Cocoa flavanols to improve heart and brain health. Most ketone supplements are sold to help you lose weight or boost athletic performance.   The military also uses ketones in survival rations.   We saw that you can increase the level of ketones in your body by supplementi...

I thought there should be at least one post about how life has changed during Covid-19.   Where we live, Monty’s life goes on pretty much as before, now we are back to home schooling - but that is nothing new for us. School starts at 9am, there are 3 or 4 classes a day online from school and then activities and exercises till 3.30pm.   We have PE, art and music like at school.  Piano practice continues most days. Monty’s latest addition to his routine is reading 30 pages a day of a novel in the evening.   Now that he has started, he insists on doing it every day.   Having finished the (boring) books from school, he is going to start reading his brother’s collection of Biggles novels. They are about a fictional fighter pilot, the series starts in 1916 and continues for 50 years (the author got old, but Biggles did not).  We are going to set the scene with one of the old epic films about fighter aces from 1914-18. The parks are closed and we have a curfew sta...

  Super skinny is a poor role model and another driver of autism risk via ensuing endocrine problems While some types of autism cannot easily be prevented, those that relate to the lifestyle of future parents clearly can be reduced. Rather than just be shocked about an “autism epidemic”, with ever increasing prevalence, why not start doing something about it?  People are staying at home to reduce the incidence of Covid-19; the risk of autism can also be reduced. Today’s post is about the young females who, under peer pressure and Instagram pressure, choose to starve themselves in the pursuit of looking “good”. School lunches are a daily subject of conversation in our house, since I always ask Monty, now aged 16 with autism, what he had for lunch at school.   Monty’s assistant tells me that even though the lunches at school are not bad, he is one of the few to eat them all.   The boys generally just eat the meat and potatoes and do not touch the fruit, vegetables and ...