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I did put one very well-known therapy on my list to investigate; that of omega-3 fish oil supplementation.   This is the territory of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and maybe not surprisingly there is a lack of high quality research.   This is a pity, because there are some very good scientific reasons why it just might work. There is only one study that was carried out like a serious clinical drug trial and seemed to show a serious positive result.   It was carried out at the Medical University of Vienna and involved 1.5 g per day of EPA/DHA (0.84g EPA and 0.7g DHA). It seems nobody else has been able to repeat this result with a similar randomized controlled trial.   What does that tell you?  Maybe those Austrians have a special kind of fish oil ?   Or maybe there is a chemical reaction going on with all that Apple Strudel they were eating? Even this study did not convince the serious scientists at the University of California, Sa...

Please take a look at Part I before reading this post.   Remember this is a blog, not medical research or medical advice.  Always read the full clinical study and then go talk to your paediatrician.   Here is the final part of my current research into GSH which, you will be pleased to learn, leads to where it should; a successful clinical trial.   This time it is not in France, the trial will be in Palo Alto, California, home of Stanford University. You will recall, that while researching one evening in February, I had rather stumbled upon the subject of GSH.   In Part I you learned all about GSH, Redox and came across a funny type of stinky chemical called a thiol.   I asked you to make a note of one particular thiol called Cysteine.   1.       Brain region-specific glutathione redox imbalance in autism   We now go inside the autistic brain.   Last year some very smart Americans did some research measuring GSH ...

In the real world coincidences are quite rare;  in this blog they seem to happen alarmingly often.   Here is another one. You will surely have noticed by now that an old diuretic called Bumetanide has found a new application in the treatment of autism. Similarly less known, is a strange phenomenon called Hypokalemic Sensory Overstimulation (HypoSO). This is when the sufferer gets overwhelmed by their senses of sound, light etc, but reverts to normal, as if by magic, after drinking oral potassium.   The extreme case of this is Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis (HypoPP), when you don’t just get sensory overload, you actually become paralyzed. My ANA hypotheses number 2 was that maybe sensory overload in autism was a form of Hypokalemic Sensory Overstimulation (HypoSo).   It seemed a wild idea, but when we tested it, we found the hypothesis entirely plausible.   We made an experiment with Monty, Ted and Dule . (click the link).   In other words, we found that a...

Today’s post is where I am going to get seriously scientific.   There is another Epiphany at the end, but you will read about it in Part II.   Part I is the primer.   To fully understand Part II and see why it really does lead to another epiphany moment, you should read it.   If you plan on actually implementing this at home, I suggest you read Part I, Part II and go and see your paediatrician.   My research should not be seen as medical advice.   Doctor always knows best and I am not a doctor. Introduction I mentioned earlier, that in January 2013,when I decided to launch my ANA project, the plan was as follows; start work first with my own observations and look for a hypothesis that I could develop entirely myself.   Having found a treasure trove of existing scientific research, I decided that I would also develop a Plan B.   Plan B is very simple, to just read the research and apply my own little grey cells. Plan A went very fast...