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Case study: Rapid recovery from autism after treatment of aspergillus (2020)

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Re: Case study: Rapid recovery from autism after treatment of aspergillus (2020)

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Post by giarc »

strangesmells02 wrote: post #3

Wow, thats kind of mind blowing. If the cause has been as simple as fungus this entire time. Looking forward to seeing more research on this.

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.

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Post by victorbstan »

giarc wrote: post #5
strangesmells02 wrote: post #3

Wow, thats kind of mind blowing. If the cause has been as simple as fungus this entire time. Looking forward to seeing more research on this.

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?

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Post by oneplane »

This makes me wonder if there is research on pathways that 'cause' autism, or perhaps how we can find the 'vulnerability' which then is 'exploited' by something using those pathways.

I'm using a bunch of quotes in there because I'm not well-versed enough in medicine terminology to know what the correct wording would be (and as such I also haven't had much luck in searching PubMed or NIH for that matter).

I would imagine that much like other complex systems, there are many similar outcomes that emerge from different chain reactions, and understanding one precursor is only a small part of the first link in a rather complicated chain.

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