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  Today’s post returns to the theme of reducing the incidence/severity of future autism and introduces another factor that helps explain why girls have some degree of protection from autism. The focus today is on female hormones and progesterone in particular. It does look like hormones can play a role in both triggering and potentially treating some autism, but it is not an area likely to be followed up on in the mainstream. We have seen previously in this blog that some infertility experts find an association between miscarriage and autism. One US fertility doctor has a prevent miscarriages website and a prevent autism website, because his feeling is that by reducing miscarriage risk, you may also reduce autism risk. He was shocked by how many of his fertility patients have other offspring with autism. This should really be common sense. ·         In-utero stress increases the chance of a miscarriage ·       ...

  Super skinny is a poor role model and another driver of autism risk via ensuing endocrine problems While some types of autism cannot easily be prevented, those that relate to the lifestyle of future parents clearly can be reduced. Rather than just be shocked about an “autism epidemic”, with ever increasing prevalence, why not start doing something about it?  People are staying at home to reduce the incidence of Covid-19; the risk of autism can also be reduced. Today’s post is about the young females who, under peer pressure and Instagram pressure, choose to starve themselves in the pursuit of looking “good”. School lunches are a daily subject of conversation in our house, since I always ask Monty, now aged 16 with autism, what he had for lunch at school.   Monty’s assistant tells me that even though the lunches at school are not bad, he is one of the few to eat them all.   The boys generally just eat the meat and potatoes and do not touch the fruit, vegetables and ...