by Becky | Jun 26, 2024 | 2024, Autism, Brain Health, Digestive Health, Infant and Children's Health, Recent Articles
Written by Harold Oster, MD. Results suggest that the ketogenic diet decreases inflammatory markers and has beneficial effects on the gut microbiome in children with autism spectrum disorder. (more…)
by Becky | Sep 25, 2023 | 2023, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Harold Oster, MD. Results suggest that early-life exposure to aspartame and diet soda is associated with autism and autism spectrum disorder in males. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 8, 2023 | 2023, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health, Pregnancy and Lactation, Vitamin B12, Vitamins
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Findings of the population-based study show a significant association between maternal vitamin B12 levels in the highest quintile and offspring childhood autism (p = 0.026), with a close to significance association noted in the lowest quintile (p = 0.064). (more…)
by Becky | Sep 19, 2022 | Amino Acids, Autism, Choline, Infant and Children's Health, Vitamin B - General
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Evaluating 15 studies centered on nutritional markers and abnormalities present in children with ASD noted lower levels of choline, vitamins B6 and B12, and abnormal amino acids profiles. Various studies show that increasing and balancing nutritional levels may help reduce symptom severity of ASD. (more…)
by Becky | Jan 18, 2021 | 2020, Autism, Environmental Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study suggests that impaired microbial detoxification pathways may play a role in the development of autism in children. (more…)
by Becky | Nov 2, 2020 | 2020, Autism, Infant and Children's Health, Probiotics
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. In a subset of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, six months of probiotic supplementation not only improved GI symptoms but improved behavioral profiles as well. (more…)
by Becky | Aug 19, 2019 | 2019, Autism, Infant and Children's Health, Pesticides and Solvents, Pregnancy and Lactation
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Prenatal or infant exposure to eleven pesticides, including glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and permethrin, were associated with increased odds of developing autism spectrum disorders in children. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 19, 2019 | 2017, Autism, Brain Health
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. The findings of this study suggest that DCS may be a safe and effective strategy to help youth with ASD to maintain the skills gained during short-term social skills training. (more…)
by Becky | Jun 10, 2019 | 2017, Alternative Therapies, Animal-Assisted Therapies, Autism, Brain Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Ten weeks of a therapeutic horse riding group intervention significantly increased social interaction skills with horses which crossed over to positive changes in participants’ interactions with their family pets.
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by Becky | May 31, 2019 | 2017, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Twenty sessions of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the twenty-four participating autistic children significantly improved autistic symptoms, with a lasting effect of six months. (more…)
by Becky | May 30, 2019 | 2016, Autism, Brain Health, Folic Acid & Folate
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Folic acid supplementation significantly improved autism symptoms involving sociability, cognitive verbal/preverbal, receptive language, and affective expression and communication in children with autism. (more…)
by Becky | May 6, 2019 | 2019, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Comparing an original open-label trial of MTT to a two-year follow-up study revealed that significant improvements in ASD symptoms of participants carried over and even improved further at the end of the two-year follow-up. (more…)
by Becky | Apr 15, 2019 | 2019, Alternative Therapies, Autism, Brain Health, CBD
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Cannabis treatment was shown to be safe and to improve ASD symptoms and quality of life in the participating autistic patients. (more…)
by Becky | Nov 5, 2018 | 2017, Autism, Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Microbial Transfer Therapy significantly decreased symptoms of abdominal pain, indigestion, diarrhea, and constipation and increased the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and Prevotella, bacterial species in the eighteen participating children with autism spectrum disorder compared to the control group. (more…)
by Becky | May 1, 2018 | 2018, Autism, Brain Health, Pregnancy and Lactation, Vitamins
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. This perspective study finds that while moderate supplementation of multivitamins during pregnancy offers the greatest risk reduction for autism spectrum disorder in offspring, deficient or excessive supplementation of multivitamins during pregnancy significantly increases the risk. (more…)
by Becky | Mar 28, 2018 | 2018, Alternative Therapies, Autism, Brain Health
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. A comprehensive nutritional and dietary intervention significantly improved nutritional status, non-verbal IQ, autism symptoms, and other symptoms in the majority of sixty-seven participating children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. (more…)
by Becky | Feb 19, 2018 | 2016, Autism, Vitamin B12, Vitamins
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Of the fifty-seven children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, those who received an intramuscular injection of vitamin B12 every three days for eight weeks showed a significantly greater improvement in B12 methylation than the placebo group. (more…)
by Becky | Feb 7, 2018 | 2013, Autism, Brain Health, Heavy Metals, Vaccines
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Neonatal mice, when injected with vaccine-adjuvant equivalent aluminum, experienced significant weight gain, anxiety, reduced exploratory behavior and locomotor activity compared to control mice. (more…)
by Becky | Nov 28, 2017 | 2016, Autism, Brain Health, Heavy Metals
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. A 2016 observational case-control comparative study demonstrates that autistic Egyptian children, relative to healthy controls, have significantly increased levels of urinary porphyrins which may serve as useful biomarkers for heavy metal exposure. (more…)
by Becky | Oct 30, 2017 | 2015, Autism, Brain Health, Heavy Metals, Infant and Children's Health
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. The one hundred children with autism spectrum disorder had significant higher hair levels of mercury, lead, and aluminum compared with the 100 healthy children. (more…)