Palmitoylethanolamide is an excellent anti-neuroinflammatory.
The glaring in-your-face correlation for autism is maternal obesity which it tracks as an almost right on top overlay from the inception of removing fat and making food/snacks “savory” with sugar and the beginning of the welfare state.
Correlation isn’t causation, but as Denninger quips, it sure as hell points to where the research money should go...
A few years ago I had a conversation with Sharyl Attkisson on Twitter about Autism/Aspergers and the cause. She must have some form of it in her family. I do in mine, something like Asperger’s.
We both agreed that it is hereditary and that something in our surroundings affects the severity of the response to individuals.
This is a pretty good short explanation:
CRYPTO SENSITIVITY SYNDROME
http://www.backlash.com/content/disab/reference/CryptoSensitivitySyndrome.pdf
(the author is a sufferer)
My son had a form of it, he was born in New Mexico in a mining town. Heavy minerals and metals are/were present in the soil and water there.