Human Growth Factors, Autism and the Centenarian Nobel Laureate
This post is another one of those long complicated ones, but should be worth reading. We will look at Human Growth Factors, of which several have been identified by science and quite possibly more remain to be discovered. Much of the science is well understood and overlaps with areas of interest to autism and another condition called Retts syndrome. As often seems to be the case, elements of the science has been used by the anti-aging, athletic and body-building fraternities. A surprise to me is that the science leads back to mast cells and that there some interesting therapeutic avenues already in existence. We will even involve the seemingly obscure subject of amyloids that I introduced in a recent post. In that post we discovered that in autism there were strange things going on with Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) . I will postulate that perhaps amyloid-induced neuroinflammation might be a factor in the neuroinflammation found in autism. ...