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Google have just discontinued Google+ Many people followed this blog via Google+  You can either follow by email (just to right of the blueberries), or follow by Blogger Blueberries A common criticism of this blog is that it is mainly about prescription drugs rather than OTC supplements. Today’s post is about a supplement that is highly regarded by our reader Ling. Pterostilbene is like a super potent version of resveratrol.   Resveratrol is quite well known and has long been put forward as having some potentially highly beneficial health effects, but in practise it is just too poorly absorbed to have much effect in humans. Pterostilbene is found in blueberries.   Also found in blueberries is Anthocyanin, which is worth a mention in this post, it is what gives blueberries their colour; very often it is the colour in a food that underlies part of its health benefit. This is why eating a mixed colour diet is a wise idea. Aronia is extremely rich in anthocyanins and Aronia...

Today’s post was prompted by a recent visit from Monty’s assistant from when he was 3 to 9 years old. She was asking about how to improve fine motor skills in one of her class. In the background Monty, now aged 14 with ASD, was playing the piano and I said just look at those fingers move, no sign of a fine motor skill disorder any more. Source: http://docjana.com/saltatory-conduction/ Slow going without Myelin So how do you improve both fine and gross motor skills and why are deficits so common in autism? It does look like practice makes perfect, but there is actually some science behind this and it might help explain in part why young people with autism are very slow to acquire skills.   I should point out that there are multiple contributing factors, not least any kind of excitatory-inhibitory imbalance, but today’s post is about myelin. Normally developing babies gradually start to develop fine and gross motor skills, become toilet trained and learn to talk. The process by ...