Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Autism – seems to work in Havana
Today’s post is all about one of the potential medical, but non-drug, interventions for autism. The others tend to involve electrical/magnetic stimulation of one kind or another. Low level laser therapy (LLLT) was developed more than fifty years ago in Russia. Today in Western countries LLLT is often regarded as alternative medicine or just quackery. There are some FDA approved devices. In Russia and some East European countries LLLT is part of mainstream medicine. Two people forwarded me a recent study that was carried out in Havana by a team from Cuba and Israel. There are only 11 million Cubans, but there are a lot of Cuban doctors. They have developed interesting drugs, some related to cancer, that are now being taken up by Western medicine. Cuba actually leases out doctors to work in more than 50 developing countries around the world. The results of the study are indeed interesting and there is a long list of possible mechanisms that may be involved. The...