PLT Test Blog

One reader of this blog, who found that 2.5ml of the Australian broccoli sprout powder, I suggested in an earlier post , works wonders for her son (40 minutes after the first dose), asked if I was going to include it in my Polypill. Then yesterday Monty’s assistant at school asked to take some powder to try on another small child with ASD.  Today she tells me that the same positive result was repeated, in half an hour. So I decided it is time to update the PolyPill . I did tell the researcher, I was in touch with at John’s Hopkins, that it appears you can reliably make Sulforaphane at home, without your own laboratory and a deep freezer.  I think they somehow prefer things to be complicated and hard to access. It does amaze me how people are not adopting, even super-safe, ideas that might help their child.  Many tens of thousands of parents affected by ASD must have read the stories in their newspapers about Broccoli (Sulforaphane) and autism.  How come almost nobody...

Regular readers will have noticed that behavioral diagnosese like autism, ADHD, schizophrenia or even intermittent explosive disorder (IED) do not impress me.   I think that patients deserve a biological diagnosis from a neurologist. To me, Schizophrenia might as well be called adult-onset autism and ADHD be called autism-lite. We have already seen an overlap in the genetics/channelopathies of these three conditions. Schizophrenia affects adults that developed “normally” as children and so they do not have the physical brain damage that has been shown to occur in many cases of autism.  According to Courchesne , the physical abnormalities he finds in autistic brains have occurred before most children even get diagnosed (before 3-5 years of age).  The young brain does remain plastic and this appears to explain why some children make excellent progress.  The various dysfunctions in utero and thereafter have caused some structural abnormalities in the brain.  In sch...

      I do not expect this to be one of my popular posts, but it might deserve to be. There will be lots of science, but it ends up with a safe potential intervention that can be tried at home.  The good news is that it is inexpensive, tasty and there is already a pretty solid experimental basis for the intervention. Look in your extended family for relatives with diabetes, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and Parkinson’s Disease.  This might be useful indicator. The conclusion is to put some cinnamon in your tea or coffee. Parkinson’s Disease Two people recently mentioned Parkinson’s disease to me. Oxidative stress contributes to the cascade leading to dopamine cell degeneration in Parkinson's disease. This oxidative stress is linked to other components of the degenerative process, such as mitochondrial dysfunction, excitotoxicity, nitric oxide toxicity and inflammation. The familiar motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from the death of ...