Translating Autism, a blog about autism research by Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, Ph.D., has posted a summary of a recently published study about heavy metal toxicity and detoxification capacity in autism. The study is published in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences, and is based on the notion that autistic children have a diminished ability to remove toxins—such as mercury—-from their bodies. In an effort to prove this theory, the researchers looked at urinary porphyrins as a measure of mercury exposure; specifically, they examined “urinary porphyrin metabolites (a proposed measure of heavy metal toxicity) and plasma sulfates (a proposed measure of …read more

“invented it in his kitchen”
That, according to a member of the staff of San Antonio dentist Dr. Paul G. Wilke, is where and how Professor Boyd Haley created a chemical compound to be marketed as a nutritional supplement under the name of OSR—”Oxidative Stress Relief.” Haley is a member of the Chemistry Department of the University of Kentucky and Kathleen Seidel of the Neurodiversity weblog has written an extensive review of Haley’s development of this supplement, out of concerns from recent online discussions of OSR which
“…..raise many questions about the manner in which this product has been represented to the …read more