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Autism – Getting Lost in the Translation

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I think most lay people would be surprised to know that literally tens of thousands of scientific papers have been published on autism and yet not a single drug has been approved to treat core autism. Surely there must be some value in all this research, that can be extracted today? A reader recently sent me a link to an excellent lecture about propionic acid in autism.  The first part of the lecture was much more general and concisely summarizes what we know about autism.  We know a vast amount; it just has not been translated (applied).  Click below for the video. Source:- American College of Nutrition Translation Alli from Switzerland, a medical reader of this blog did raise this issue a while back.  Why has the vast knowledge about autism not been translated across into medical therapies? Her conclusion was the same as mine; don’t wait, do the translation yourself.  This is of course easier said than done, because there are wide variations in what causes aut...