Tics, Ticks, Autism - Wnt signaling & PAK1
I was interested to receive a comment from a reader of this blog who finds that the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin has a major impact on her child’s autism, debilitating tics and OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ). Regular readers may recall that when looking at so-called PAK1 inhibitors, which look like the Holy Grail for both common cancers and autism, it turned out that two already exist. One is an old anti-parasitic drug called Ivermectin and the other is a substance found in certain types of bee propolis from Brazil and New Zealand. It then turned out that a handful of “alternative” practitioners in the US are already using Ivermectin for autism, but for entirely different reasons. They believe that various parasites exist inside the children and cause/exacerbate autism. I thought this was intriguing and quite likely another case of “the right therapy, for the wrong reason”. Tics and Ticks Tics are those sudden, repetitive involuntary actions that can vary from...