PLT Test Blog

Typical children usually enjoy their long summer break and once they are teenagers they do not need much supervision; that is not the case with people with more severe autism. Most kids with this kind of autism are counting the days till they can go back to school.     In the US, many such people have an extended school year, which keeps them occupied, but this does not exist in most of the world.   The US actually has a very short standard school year, just 180 days; in Japan they are in school for 220 days a year. This year Monty, now age 15 with ASD, has been much more energetic since he started taking a little scoop of Agmatine before breakfast, 11 months ago. He now completes a lot of physical activities, by anyone’s standards. He enjoyed running at school last year and was good at it, so I started taking him to a running track in the holidays. It is 1.2km (0.75 miles) long and runs through a forest, so it is mostly out of the sun. The first step was to decide not to...

  I introduced Fibromyalgia in my last post ; it is an neurological condition that can cause some very strange symptoms, in addition to pain and fatigue.   I imagine that there are various different underlying causes and so, like autism, it is really a family of disorders with overlapping symptoms. Surprisingly, at least one type of Fibromyalgia would appear to have similar causes to classic autism, but its onset is after the brain has fully developed.   As with autism, the approved medical treatments are all for the symptoms, rather than the underlying condition.   The underlying condition seems to be a neuro-endocrine inflammatory disorder, sometimes with channelopathies. One very interesting finding is that exercise consistently helps with the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.   I was reading a paper just last week that showed that exercise (jogging) reduced autistic behaviors.   It has already been well established that exercise is almost as effective as drugs ...