The over-activated Immune System in Autism or “why has NAC stopped working?”
Organs of the Immune System Today’s post will combine some first class science from MGH ( Massachusetts General Hospital) with some feedback that I have been receiving. I have been receiving comments from parents who have tried some of the various new scientifically-based drug therapies for autism. For some parents, none of them work. This is not a surprise, since we have established that “autism” is just a general term for a collection of behavioral symptoms. These symptoms can be caused by a remarkable variety of different factors and so a therapy can only be successful, if it is matched to the appropriate subject. The lack of biomarkers currently makes it a case of trial and error. What really draws my attention is when a successful therapy appears to “stop working”. This has already happened to my son and it just happened to a reader of this blog; “NAC has stopped working”. So I applied myself to figuring this out. In fact, it ...