Now, does this work with adults too?
Maybe highly functioning autists are what recovery looks like.
Case study: Rapid recovery from autism after treatment of aspergillus (2020)
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#12n=1.
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#13Come on people, one case? Was he really properly diagnosed of ASD? How did this get so front page up after all covid and colloidal silver, MMS or hydroxychloroquine
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#14Come on people, one case? Was he really properly diagnosed of ASD? How did this get so front page up after all covid and colloidal silver, MMS or hydroxychloroquine
Autism spectrum disorder isn’t a disease like COVID with a known cause. There are likely many things that lead to symptoms consistent with ASD. According to the link the mold infection has biomarkers, and presumably it’s possible that some people who have this infection and ASD can be treated for the infection and might see improvement. However I don’t think the article implies in any way that ASD is caused by mold infections, just that some with ASD AND the mold infection might be treated for ASD when the mold infection is treated.
What I find interesting if other cases are found is the incredible influence our intestines have on our personality and mental processes.
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It's likely that there are many causes of autism. For example, there have been successful results of giving stool transplants to children with resolution of symptoms.
Which also indicates a bacteria cause, no?
ASD is a set of symptoms. There’s likely many causes. If it were commonly caused by infections of the gut people would have noticed more prevalently as anti fungal and antibiotic treatments aren’t uncommon.
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Which also indicates a bacteria cause, no?
ASD is a set of symptoms. There’s likely many causes. If it were commonly caused by infections of the gut people would have noticed more prevalently as anti fungal and antibiotic treatments aren’t uncommon.
Not if you're missing microorganisms. In fact, antibiotics may damage your gut microbiota even further.
The above is just playing with an hypothesis, but there is evidence (unrelated to this case or autism) that gut microbiota is related to psychiatric/personality/mental disorders and stool transplants may help in those cases.
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#18I keep warning Hackernews not to trust fungi, and people downvoted me for it. But I keep getting proved right. Don't trust those spores. They're everywhere: in the trees, in the breeze, even our cheese.
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#19Come on people, one case? Was he really properly diagnosed of ASD? How did this get so front page up after all covid and colloidal silver, MMS or hydroxychloroquine
Nowhere the article claims that such infections are the only cause for autism.
It’s just one datapoint, but it’s an _interesting_ datapoint nevertheless, because it seems so unrelated. A good starting point for an investigation, I’d say.
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#20Come on people, one case? Was he really properly diagnosed of ASD? How did this get so front page up after all covid and colloidal silver, MMS or hydroxychloroquine
Autism spectrum disorder isn’t a disease like COVID with a known cause. There are likely many things that lead to symptoms consistent with ASD. According to the link the mold infection has biomarkers, and presumably it’s possible that some people who have this infection and ASD can be treated for the infection and might see improvement. However I don’t think the article implies in any way that ASD is caused by mold i…
everything is connected, my mom believed my brother's ASD was because of vaccines, I didn't have much of an opinion till I researched it years later and learned it was based on one cooks theories, but this seems like a more sound research study, albeit a small sample size. I'm self diagnosed (3 of my friends with ASD told me I'm probably am on spectrum, because I over share and don't shut up about a subject I like.), my brother's an easier more detectable case. I had to be a lot more independent so learned masking and taught myself coping skills...
This however, seems more reasonable than the vaccines theory because the gut also has some gray matter and our digestive system I think plays some role in our consciousness system, along with neurons, and all the hormones and chemicals that our body uses to transmit signals and all the electricity running through our neural network, etc...
I'm pretty sure an uptick in ASD could very well correlate with environmental conditions considering we all have forever chemicals and micro plastics in our blood and those probably have some effect on hormones and internal body chemistry.