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  Belgium is famous for many things from chocolate and beer to comic books like Tintin.    Even the Smurfs are from Belgium.   If you want to investigate autism you might need the skills of the most famous fictional Belgian, Hercule Poirot. Today’s post is about the detective work of Dr Ramaekers from Liège. Liège is a city in the French-speaking part of Belgium. The northern half of Belgium speak Dutch and southern half speak French. The capital Brussels is officially a bilingual city, but if you do not want to upset an unknown local, the safest language to use is actually English. Liège used to be a major European centre for steel making.   My elder son tells me that Liège is still famous for making guns. In 2020 Liège is the European home of Folate receptor antibodies research and more importantly, its treatment. Outside of Brussels the touristy parts of Belgium include Bruges, Gent and Antwerp, where your French from school is less useful. If you lik...

    Salem College   Today’s post is the first of two new ones about preventing/minimizing future autism.   The second post will be about Dr Ramaekers’ idea of using Calcium Folinate, which he has already put into use in human parents seeking to avoid autism in their next child.  Before we start, I should point out that while readers of this blog, and it seems Dr Ramaekers, likely wish that autism and its symptoms did not exist, there are some people, well paid to research autism, who think autism is a good thing. I really do wonder why such people receive any public funding and wonder what kind of University would employ such people. It is like researching deafness, but not wanting to treat it - better they stay home. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824091958.htm Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge, who co-led the study, added, "Some people may be worried that basic research into differences in the auti...

  That alternative world, where you fix things when they are not working I do sometimes forget the world that most people live in, when it comes to (not) understanding and (not) treating autism. I decided to write this post on lethargy and autism, after being prompted by a friend who contacted me and told me that his son with autism is very lethargic (physically and mentally). I replied with the suggestion that he try a little scoop of Agmatine Sulphate.   Now his son is able to go for long walks, without constantly wanting to stop for a rest.   The Dad asked me to share his positive experience with Agmatine. A few years ago, this boy was diagnosed by Dr Kelley with mitochondrial dysfunction.   People with mitochondrial dysfunction should indeed have poor exercise endurance, this is because they lack the enzymes needed in a process called oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS).   OXPHOS is the metabolic pathway in which cells use enzymes to oxidize nutrients, ther...