Autophagy, Mitophagy, Calpains and mTOR in Autism, but also in aging, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's etc.
Source: http://www.tanpaku.org/autophagy/ I am writing a science heavy post all about a protein called mTOR . It is one of those "cancer proteins" that are now heavily researched, very complicated, but clearly very connected to autism. In today’s lead-in post, that was not supposed to get complicated, I will introduce new terms, Autophagy, Mitophagy and Calpains . There are some very interesting implications from the research, not least that you can reduce mTOR levels just by eating (a lot) less. Indeed, this “starvation” diet has now been shown by the University of Newcastle to be able to reverse the onset of type 2 diabetes . It also may suggest another reason for those Somali Autism clusters in the US and Sweden, where refugees from Somalia have been settled. Just as a starvation diet reduces mTOR, excessive eating increases mTOR. Via several mechanisms we will see that autism associates with high levels of mTOR. While the hygien...