Posted on 09/29/2025 12:05:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chemo side-effect drug has long been used to treat autism, with quickly observed improvements and little risk to children, but it's not a moneymaker. Trump endorsement prompts CBS to change old story from promising to skeptical.
The medical establishment and mainstream media are uniting against the Trump administration's re-purposing of an inexpensive drug to treat an epidemic, calling it "unproven," not "backed by science," "not a cure" and "shocking" to endorse, with The New York Times emphasizing no profit-driven drug company suggested it.
In President Trump's first term, it was ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. In his second, it's prescription leucovorin to treat autism spectrum disorder.
Long used to treat chemotherapy side effects, leucovorin calcium tablets got approved last week by the Food and Drug Administration to treat "cerebral folate deficiency" (CFD), whose clinical symptoms include "global developmental delays with autistic features," following its own "systematic analysis of literature" from 2009 through last year.
"Published case reports provided patient-level data on over 40 patients," adult and child, with most of those given leucovorin treatment showing "substantial improvement of symptoms of CFD that would not be expected when compared to the natural history of CFD due to FOLR1 gene variants," the Federal Register notice says.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted leucovorin to treat autism Monday with Trump and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, but it was quickly overshadowed by the other autism-related recommendation that pregnant women limit their use of Tylenol, which prompted a new TikTok challenge.
Tylenol maker Kenvue surreptitiously reversed its own eight-year-old recommendation that pregnant women not take Tylenol at all, reaffirmed two years later, in response to the federal...
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Have they called it “horse paste” yet?
Liberals resemble lemmings to such a large degree I am shocked we don’t see more of them going over cliffs.
Donald Trump approves of breathing a 78/21/1 mix of nitrogen, oxygen, and trace gases ...
Make sure all the leftists know this.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7477301/
“Treatment of Folate Metabolism Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder”
If you go to the link the quacks who authored this study are clearly listed. Here is just two of them,
Lawrence Scahill, PhD ‡Department of Pediatrics, Emory University and Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta, GA
Richard E Frye, MD PhD
*Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Thank goodness the press and other experts are keeping our children safe. SARCASM JUST FEELS RIGHT.
If these idiots are willing to OD on Tylenol, just to spite Trump, maybe Trump should say, “don’t put a gun to your head, and pull the trigger,” and kind of see what happens. It might be a good way to eliminate his enemies. 🤪
Leuvocroin is an unproven treatment. Over 5 studies, only 39 people showed improvement above placebo. On th eother hand, this is an active metaboliute of B-12 so it is fairly safe and a good idea for those with low B-12. The thing is that far more Americans have issues with B-12 that don’t have autism. We tend to be anemic.
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