Preventing Miscarriages/Autism using Progesterone? And Sex-Specific Fetal and Placental Responses to Adversity
Today’s post returns to the theme of reducing the incidence/severity of future autism and introduces another factor that helps explain why girls have some degree of protection from autism. The focus today is on female hormones and progesterone in particular. It does look like hormones can play a role in both triggering and potentially treating some autism, but it is not an area likely to be followed up on in the mainstream. We have seen previously in this blog that some infertility experts find an association between miscarriage and autism. One US fertility doctor has a prevent miscarriages website and a prevent autism website, because his feeling is that by reducing miscarriage risk, you may also reduce autism risk. He was shocked by how many of his fertility patients have other offspring with autism. This should really be common sense. · In-utero stress increases the chance of a miscarriage · ...