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  1. haidut

    Gut Dysbiosis May Cause Autism Through Cortisol And Serotonin

    The bad news about cortisol and serotonin just keep on coming. Aside from causing liver cancer and tinnitus, now these two chemicals have also been implicated in autism. Well, the link between serotonin and autism is not new and I posted a few studies in the past showing that serotonin...
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    • autism bacteria cortisol dysbiosis gut flora microbiome pathogenic serotonin
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  2. haidut

    New Human Study With Pregnenolone For Treating Autism

    It is to be held at Stanford University and is set to last 14 weeks. No word on dosing but the explanation is that downstream metabolites of pregnenolone are inhibitory in the CNS and can balance the excessive neuroexcitation that is a feature of autism. Given that serotonin is the likely main...
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    • autism excitatory human inhibitory pregnenolone serotonin treatment trial
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  3. Constatine

    BCAA's Reduce Autism Symptoms

    New form of autism found BCAA's administered directly to the brain seemed to reduce autism symptoms significantly. Might this be due to BCAA's lowering brain serotonin via reduced brain trypotophan?
  4. haidut

    Vitamin D May Be A Viable Therapy For Autism (human Study)

    This is one of the rare human studies using direct intervention for autism. As you can see, there was significant improvement in symptoms with a dose of 300 IU / kg of bodyweight, given daily for 4 months. In addition to the pro-metabolic effects of vitamin D, it is also a known inhibitor of TPH...
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    • autism children cholecalciferol human serotonin study therapeutic therapy tph vitamin d vitamin d3
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  5. haidut

    Children Conceived In Winter Have Much Higher Risk Of Autism

    Not sure why the study considers January to May to be winter months, but this is yet another study that links maternal metabolism (and serotonin) to autism. The official explanation is increased flu infection and lower vitamin D levels in the winter. While these may be contributing factors, I...
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    • autism conceiving conception disabilities dyslexia flu hypothyroidism maternal metabolism serotonin vitamin d winter
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  6. haidut

    Children With Autism Have High Serotonin Levels

    I posted a few studies on using anti-serotonin drugs (specifically 5-HT2 antagonists) as a potential treatment for autism. This study adds more weight to the evidence for causative role of serotonin in autism by finding out that children with autism have abnormally high blood serotonin levels...
  7. haidut

    SSRI During Pregnancy Causes Cognitive Dysfunction (autism) In Offspring

    I just posted a study that found a link between stress and elevated serotonin levels in pregnant women, which subsequently was tied to development of autism in the offspring. Stress Activates A Serotonin Gene In Pregnant Women And That Causes Autism Now, in agreement with that study a new one...
  8. haidut

    Stress Activates A Serotonin Gene In Pregnant Women And That Causes Autism

    I have posted before on the (now accepted as causative) link between elevated serotonin levels in mother during pregnancy and autism in babies. Serotonin Causes Autism; Blocking It May Treat Autism Maternal Inflammation Causes Brain Damage (autism) By Raising Serotonin This study now ties...
  9. haidut

    Blocking Adrenaline Activity May Reduce Autism Symptoms

    As discussed many times on the forum, autism is likely a condition triggered by maternal stress during pregnancy so in theory it can be prevented. However, once established in the child there are no official therapies approved for it. I posted some studies on blocking serotonin curing autism in...
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  10. haidut

    Functional GABA Deficiency May Be Cause Of Autism

    This is one of the few studies on humans, and it showed that while levels of GABA in autistic and healthy children were similar, the activity of the GABA system was deficient in autism patients. This creates a functional GABA deficiency, which makes the autistic brain hyperexcited, as Ray has...
  11. haidut

    SSRI use during pregnancy doubles child autism risk

    Not really a surprise to the people on this forum, but I thought it is worth mentioning given the recent posts on maternal pregnancy stress and hypothyroidism increasing risk of autism or homosexuality. And this time the recommendation is to just "do more studies" but rather to replace SSRI...
  12. haidut

    Serotonin Causes Autism; Blocking It May Treat Autism

    Once again, a testament to Ray's brilliance in clearly explaining the links between elevated serotonin in the brain and conditions like autism. Other scientists have also worked on the serotonin-autism hypothesis and as a result there has been a small human study with autism that found...
  13. J

    Macaque Experiment Fails To Link Vaccine Schedule And Autism

    http://www.realclearscience.com/journal ... 09396.html 79 Macaques. No evidence of vaccines causing autism. You could argue sample size, publishing bias, and monkeys-not-humans! (in order of decreasing evidence) but this seems like pretty solid evidence that you don't have to worry about...
  14. J

    Large Study Finds No Association Between MMR Vaccine And Autism

    Even in high risk populations (siblings with ASD) http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.asp ... id=2275444
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    • Forum: Vaccines
  15. G

    Pufas Correlate With Autism

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16891996/
  16. haidut

    The Debate About Autism And Vaccines Has Resurfaced

    It looks like Andrew Wakefield may have had a point after all. Given that this is from CNN I am assuming it is pretty big deal, especially given that the study authors have accused CDC publicly of concealing data and information. This time, the controversy probably won't go away that easily...
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    • autism health vaccines
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  17. haidut

    Autistic Children Have Increased Incidence Of Asthma

    Another study implicating serotonin in the development of autism. The causative role of serotonin in asthma is well known and is one of the reasons why drugs like tianeptine are so effective for asthma. The fact that asthma and autism are more likely to co-occur makes the serotonin-autism...
  18. T

    100 Yr-old Metabolism Drug Reverses Autism Symptoms

    ...in rats for 5 weeks. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-me ... ptoms-mice I've long thought that autism and other brain states were symptoms of a larger metabolic issue. This study suggests that perhaps it is. I'd love to here Ray's thoughts on it.
  19. haidut

    Potential Treatment For Autism

    The latest study confirming autism as a metabolic/mitochondrial dysfunction. It also suggests potential therapy - purinergic receptor antagonists. I am not sure Peat will be in favor of that drug given his ideas on the benefits of the purines, but as long as the theory behind autism moves away...
  20. LucyL

    Vaccines And Autism, The Selye Relationship?

    I've been reading Selye's the Stress of Life lately, and it is quite interesting. I thought of it this morning when I read yet another vaccine-autism denial headline Autism tied to high levels of prenatal steroid hormones. I'm far from convinced one way or the other if vaccines "cause" autism...
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    • autism health vaccines
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    • Forum: Vaccines
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