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No doubt linked to poor diet. It is sometimes very difficult to follow a good diet for typical kids let alone for a child with autism who very likely has challenging behavioral issues. Parents need to be hyper involved and vigilant. Sadly many can’t stay that engaged due to all the other issues that they must deal with. Fix the diet and you avoid those adverse health problems!

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Autism was rare before the sun ( and its vitamin D) were villified in the 1970s. Chronic vitD deficiency/starvation in the mother and then the child causes gestational and then post-natal developmental defects. The specific region of the brain affected is the midline cerebellar vermis, which develops postnatally and is involved in learning/memory and higher order behaviors. Interestingly, there is a north-south gradient with respect to autism prevalence, vitD related. Somalians relocated to Minneapolis develop autism, a condition so foreign that Somalis have no word for it in their language. Furthermore, a condition called Williams Syndrome involves hypertrophy and malformations in the vermis that result in hypersociability...almost the behaviorally opposite condition to autism. The vitD-autism-cerebellar link is a Nobel Prize worthy line of research for a young aggressive neuroscientist.

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Thanks! A close family member just got diagnosed with ASD so this is very helpful information. Much appreciated.

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A lot of interesting theories. The Autism link to the triad of diabetes, dyslipidemia and heart disease looks a lot like ALS. Has anyone looked into a hypothalamic or HPA dysfunction link to Autism?

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Is it autism that raises these risks? Or is it that autism and these conditions are linked to the MTHFR genetic mutation?

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I remember Autism was diagnosed early on right after birth the second class of autism is the onset of autism due to environmental factors after birth ,diet toxicity environment heavy metals water food and of course vaccines in my humble opinion a difference from being born autistic you can easily follow the increased of the second class by the vaccine schedule increase to the increase in autism since the 70s

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Is this corrected for exposure to antipsychotics such as olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), and paliperidone (Invega)? I'm glad Skier, Rebecca Lee, and Eric Turrell already asked about vaccines.

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