A protocol for treatment of common autism phenotype(s)
This is a guest post written by Seth Bittker, who previously wrote about Vitamin D in Autsim. Your child has just been diagnosed with autism. Now what? Start some form of behavioral therapy and research autism biochemistry. You will soon realize by reading blogs like Peter’s that biochemical dysfunction is fundamental to most cases of autism. For example, some biochemical characteristics that are common in autism are: 1) Immune dysfunction. Often this shows up as comorbidity with allergic or autoimmune diseases. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16512356 2) Elevations in monoamine neurotransmitters in the young. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1994.tb11911.x/abstrac t 3) Methylation deficits. Often the oxidized to reduced glutathione ratios are high. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15585776 4) ...