Butyric Acid and Autism
Following on the previous posts about Tregs (regulatory T cells) and Short Chained Fatty Acids (SCFAs), today we get to the final steps and some more scientific data. Butyric acid seems to be the best choice of an SCFA, as a possible anti-inflammatory autism therapy. We have a research study that measured Butyric acid and compared the levels in people with and without autism. It also splits out those with and without any GI issues. We have another study showing that Butyric acid “ attenuates novel object recognition deficits and hippocampal dendritic spine loss in a mouse model of autism. ” This is as relevant as you want to believe. Since Butyric acid is widely used worldwide for animals and in Asia for humans, we have a great deal of data available. The research shows that moderately increasing the level of Butyric acid does do good, but go too far and you lose the benefit. (Farmers do not over feed your chickens) In both humans and animals two different methods are used:- 1. ...