Children With Autism Showed Significant Improvement in Symptoms With Vitamin D

Studies indicate that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) tend to have lower levels of vitamin D compared to their peers — the so-called “sunshine vitamin” is crucial for fetal brain development.

Unfortunately, research exploring the effects of traditional vitamin D supplementation on autism symptoms has produced mixed results. Now, a new study out of Egypt suggests that a form of vitamin D3 known as nanoemulsion shows promise in improving symptoms.

“The vitamin D3-loaded nanoemulsion provided an effective and true influence on the adaptive behavior and language abilities of children with ASD, not only on the rise of vitamin D3 levels in the blood,” the researchers wrote in the June edition of the LabMed Discovery journal.

“...my mind registered some other way.”

“Hot Shots” (1991)

Jim ‘Wash Out’ Pfaffenbach about his condition, “Walleye Vision”: “Well, there’s a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they’ve got to go in through the rectum. Ain’t no man going to take that route with me!”

My Retina specialist told me there was a way to treat my Retinopathy, going in through the back of the eye. The above is what immediately came to mind.

In my work with many Autism Spectrum children and adults, I have found that a shift in the thalamus being able to process emotions is hindered during the third month of pregnancy.

This results in a super masculine consciousness that processes through the thalamus and hippocampus and not the amygdala. This is why more males have the disorder than females.

The lacking emotional consciousness is why these children tend to be loners.

I usually find a trauma involving the mother at this time that blocks the emotional bonding of the mother and child.

These children are usually super smart, but have difficulty learning with the emotional teaching methods used by elementary schools.

Here is an AI summary..

Vitamin D, particularly through its active form (calcitriol), plays a role in brain function, including potentially influencing the thalamus. While direct evidence of a specific “vitamin D thalamus function” is still emerging, research suggests vitamin D receptors (VDRs) are present in the thalamus, and vitamin D deficiency has been linked to thalamic calcification in animal models.

Additionally, vitamin D’s broader influence on brain health, including neuronal development, neuroprotection, and calcium regulation, could indirectly impact thalamic activity.

Here’s a more detailed look:
VDRs in the Thalamus:
Vitamin D receptors (VDRs) are found in various brain regions, including the thalamus. This suggests that vitamin D can directly influence the thalamus through these receptors.

Thalamic Calcification:
Studies on vitamin D receptor knockout mice have shown thalamic calcification, indicating a role for vitamin D in regulating calcium deposition in the thalamus. This finding aligns with some clinical observations of brain calcification in vitamin D deficient individuals.

Broader Brain Effects:
Vitamin D is known to be involved in several brain processes that could indirectly affect the thalamus, such as:
Neuroprotection: Vitamin D has neuroprotective effects, potentially safeguarding thalamic neurons from damage.

Neuronal Development: Vitamin D is crucial for healthy brain development, including neuronal differentiation and maturation, which could impact thalamic circuits.

Calcium Homeostasis: Vitamin D helps regulate calcium levels, which are vital for proper neuronal function, including in the thalamus.

Neuroinflammation: Vitamin D can modulate inflammatory responses in the brain, which may be relevant to thalamic function.

Potential Implications for Neurological Disorders:
Given the thalamus’s role in various functions, including sensory processing, movement, and sleep, vitamin D’s influence on the thalamus could have implications for neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy.

I believe my father was on the autism spectrom with Aspergers syndrome. It did not help that he almost died of Typhoid as an infant, and of pneumonia as a 2 year old. He had a strong obsessive compulsive component which meant he had total concentration on an activity or idea. It was very hard to interrupt him once he was engaged in a topic or activity. When I first visited home with my future husband, he was obsessing about a long article on African Bushmen. He spoke about them for a long time, finally he mentioned Bushmen marriage customs. I grabbed the opportunity to interrupt and tell him that my sweetheart and I were planning to get married. His comment, “That’s nice, as I was saying about the Bushmen....” and he continued with this monolog on Bushmen for another hour.

I had his tendency to fixate on a topic of interest, but learned to be sensitive to the reactions of others and shut up when appropriate. My two boys were never diagnosed and on medication, but all 4 grandsons were on some ADHD meds at some time in their childhood. At any rate, autism spectrum is probably not new, but rather unrecognized in the past. I think my paternal grandfather probably also had some of those qualities of concentration and inability to relate to the feelings or concerns of others.

D3 Nanoemulsion, was guessing it’s not cheap but
happily I’m wrong at $24.40 per ounce.

Sounds expensive but 900 drops per bottle means
only sunlight is cheaper!

About this item (from link provided)...

125 mcg (5000 IU) of D3 Citrus Flavored

Liquid Drops from Lanolin in a base of MCT Oil

Bone & Immune Health

1 fl oz of Liquid Drops, 900 Servings

Non-GMO, Vegetarian Friendly, Kosher Certified, Gluten-Free, Soy-Free, Dairy-Free

Free of milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame.

Also free of gluten, barley, rice, sodium and sugar.

Sorry for coming so late to the discussion, but I read the entire debate with utter fascination.

You see - I might have mentioned it before - that I am on the autistic spectrum. I have Asperger‘s syndrome, and it made my growing up very difficult at times, as well as my educational and professional career, especially since I was not diagnosed with the condition until I was forty years old (praise be to the therapist in California, where I was staying at the time, who had me tested and found it out).

Actually, I hadn’t heard of a Vitamin D deficiency in autistics, although my doctor has often said that my Vitamin D levels were rather low. Thus, I often sun myself, although I never could stand heat very well, in order to optimize my Vitamin D 🙂

Thank you all again, dear fellow Freepers, for giving me helpful advice - and a blessed Sunday to all of you and your dear ones 🙂

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