Unstable Blood Flow in Autistic Brains?
Source: https://images.nature.com/full/nature-assets/nrd/journal/v15/n6/images/nrd.2015.17-f2.jpg Today’s post is complicated, but may be of interest to those people interested in Nitric Oxide therapies (Agmatine, Cocoa Flavanols, Beetroot, Taurine, Citrulline etc) and those who think they are treating earlier hypoxia/ischemia. As usual, I am making simplifications, but the science behind the general ideas already exists. When it comes to the details regarding VEGF and autism, there are big gaps in the science. We have already seen that something as simple as improving blood flow appears to be therapeutic in some people with autism. Perhaps there should even be a post called “cold feet and autism”. One reader of this blog, Seth, has commented before that he sees autism as essentially vascular in nature. Today’s research suggests it does indeed include microvascular abnormalities. Rather than simply reduced blood flow, the problem, in at least some autism, appears to b...