Yet more research is coming to light about the damaging effects of heavy metals. A recent study showed that autistic children have much higher levels of them than the general population (that said, however, doesn’t mean that the general population is free of heavy metals).
These children had significantly higher levels of lead, thallium, tin, and tungsten, “toxic metals that can impair brain development and function, and also interfere with the normal functioning of other body organs and systems.”
The study also noted that “38-47% of the variation of autism severity was associated with the level of several toxic metals, with cadmium and mercury being the most strongly associated. Mercury toxicity, the effects of which mimic autism, is, according to my perusal of the research, the most damaging.
It bears repeating, for those of you who don’t know or who haven’t read any of my previous blog posts, that heavy-metal toxicity played a huge role in my sons’ Sensory Processing Disorder (which I call “autism light” and Beth Lambert calls “almost autism“) and in a lot of health problems that I had as well.
Yet another study shows that C sections and feeding your baby formula instead of breastmilk can change your baby’s gut flora for the worse, leading to gut dysbiosis.
Methylation is a subject that keeps coming up again and again for my sons and myself. It’s one of those all-encompassing issues like toxicity or gut dysbiosis because so many diseases and conditions are linked, directly or indirectly, to it or rather, a lack of it.
My Children: Recovered from Sensory Processing Disorder, Acid Reflux, Asthma and Eczema, and getting healthier everyday!
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Have you ever wondered WHY there’s such an epidemic of autism these days? Why is the rate now 1 in 50, when it was only 1 in 10,000 a couple of decades ago?
