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Agnieszka's KetoForce and C8 are new additions, last time it was Tyler's Agmatine as additions to the  Full Polypill I recently updated my autism Polypill. It is now the fifth version, so it is becoming ever more personalized to one specific case of autism.   I added caprylic acid C8 and KetoForce Beta Hydroxybutyrate. The full Polypill version 5 is here:    https://epiphanyasd.blogspot.com/p/polypill-for-autism.html I do feel that I am getting near the final version. I already am pretty sure what is going to be added in the sixth version. There are one or two potentially clever ideas in this blog that I have not yet developed. After my first year of autism research my doctor mother thought the result was good enough to stop, but I persevered and some further improvement did come. She was supportive of the concept but rather surprised it was possible. I think I have now achieved most of what is possible, which took an additional five years. Having recently been revi...

Today’s post is all about what to expect in the future; it covers a detailed look at 2 different studies that I think are best considered in a single post. Forewarned is forearmed. How high to set the bar? In a recent post I highlighted the need for long term (longitudinal) studies showing what happened to people diagnosed with autism back in the 1990s in California and New York, when an autism diagnosis was much more meaningful and yet early intervention was already available. We could then see what the outcome was 20 years after diagnosis and this might help parents decide their own autism strategies for today. I was encouraged to subsequently come across today’s study from France that traces the progress made over 15 years by a group diagnosed with autism.   I also include my take on a popular recent study that showed what “Optimal Outcome” looks like in American autism, but that looks just over a 4 year period. Don’t raise your hopes. All this leads to the practical questio...

In the research there are various scales to measure how autistic a child is, for example the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS).  They are very subjective, but clearly better than nothing at all. I read a study on older children with ASD that was highlighting that as the children get older, they become less autistic.  In the CARS scale there are 14 behavioural areas to grade and then there is number 15, which is the general impression of the clinician.  In effect, number 15 is how autistic the clinicians feel the subject to be;  you would expect that number 15 would be consistant with the findings in the first 14 areas.  In the test the older children all showed a big improvement in areas 1 to 14, but not in number 15, which is the one that really matters.  This really means that either the use of CARS was inappropriate or CARS is flawed. As children get older the concept of "normal" changes.  So there is not m...