Sodium Benzoate and GABRA5 - Raising Cognitive Function in Autism
I am still looking for additional cognitive enhancing autism therapies. It seems the best way to find them may actually be to reread my own blog. A long time ago I suggested that Cinnamon could well be therapeutic in autism, most likely (but not entirely) due to the sodium benzoate (NaB) it produces in your body. https://epiphanyasd.blogspot.com/search/label/Cinnamon Sodium benzoate (NaB) is both a drug used to reduce ammonia in your blood and a common food additive that acts as a preservative. NaB has many biological effects. One effect relates to a protein called DJ-1, which is produced by a Parkinson’s gene (PARK7). I had noticed that when the body tries to turn on its anti-oxidant genes after the switch Nrf2 is activated, the process cannot proceed without enough DJ-1. This is why Peter Barnes, from my Dean’s list, suggested that patients with COPD might benefit from more DJ-1. COPD is a kind of severe asthma which occurs with severe oxidative stress, the...