Comments on: Autism and Genetics and the Environment

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:11:36 +0000

There are a group of genetic disorders that predispose patients to environmental stressors including drugs, chemicals, hormones, heavy metals, alcohol, stress, infections and vaccines. They are the porphyrias. The connections between Guillain-Barre/porphyria and vaccine induced acute and subacute disseminated encephalomyelitis and encephalitis and porphyrias are not that big of a leap. Unfortunately, no one is willing to investigate heme enzyme deficiencies in autism and autistic spectrum disorders. Too close to the truth for comfort.

By: Changing Environment, Changes in Genetic Structure

Changing Environment, Changes in Genetic Structure — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:17 +0000

[...] immune system, etc., but that some “environmental factor” is “triggering” autism: How do genes and the environment interact? Rice University physicist and bioengineer Michael Deem has a new theory about how the [...]

By: It’s All in the Yeast

It’s All in the Yeast — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:19:51 +0000

[...] turned on and off. To say that “autism is genetic” is not to say that it is a “hopeless” condition. Zimmer suggests that identical genes can differ in [...]

By: George S

George S — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:07:38 +0000

The new crop: Trangenic children. Quite possibly. Are the genomes of these people undergoing modification? What of Asperger’s cases? I would say these autistics are involved in a program of augmentation. I have Aspergers myself. Mothers and their autistics will often have some memory of odd intervention in their lives.

By: Joe Mele

Joe Mele — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:03:35 +0000

The joke about all these theories about the cause of autism have validity only because non autistics invented them. While a cause by rdos (rdos dot net) the neanderthal theory is ignored because he is an autistic. MSNBC.com just recently had an article about neanderthals in siberia and that they might have made it to asia.

By: Last Week’s Top Posts

Last Week’s Top Posts — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:16:30 +0000

[...] Autism and Genetics and the EnvironmentOn the age-old question of nurture and, or vs., nature. [...]

By: Laura Shumaker

Laura Shumaker — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:08:52 +0000

I hate to be a pessimist, but whenever I read reports of treatment and cure by kindergarten age, I say to myself “just wait till they get older-the social awkwardness will still be there” and if it’s not it was probably not autism to begin with.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:17:15 +0000

Hi Estée—yes I did; I was thinking of writing something about epidemiology and its complications but did not get to it (yet….). Thanks for the reminder—

By: Estee Klar-Wolfond

Estee Klar-Wolfond — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:01:55 +0000

Excuse me, I meant September 16, 2007.

By: Estee Klar-Wolfond

Estee Klar-Wolfond — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:59:21 +0000

Did you read Gary Taubes article in the New Yor Times Magazine on September 27th on Epidemiology? It is called “Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?” A very worthwhile read.