[Myrddin]

They have moved to America. Their diets are different. Put the kids on a gluten and dairy free diet for a month. It's an inexpensive test that often yields a favorable improvement. Kids with a leaky gut that consume milk will sometimes convert the casein into neuropeptides that resemble morphine. They become "hooked" on their internally manufactured morphine and become unresponsive to the outside world. The leaky gut can also set them up for type 1 diabetes as the milk protein sets off an auto-immune response that attacks the pancreas.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Scary stuff. What happens after a month if you notice improvement?

[conservative cat]

Gluten and casein free helps a LOT, but it’s not a magic bullet, which causes people to stop it unneccessarily. My son improved a lot on it, but he is still autistic and diagnosed as “moderately retarded.” I have no doubt that he would be much worse were he not on the diet, though. He went from being mostly non-verbal to speaking in complete sentences and being able to read and write somewhat.

[neverdem]

They have moved to America. Their diets are different. Put the kids on a gluten and dairy free diet for a month. It's an inexpensive test that often yields a favorable improvement. Kids with a leaky gut that consume milk will sometimes convert the casein into neuropeptides that resemble morphine. They become "hooked" on their internally manufactured morphine and become unresponsive to the outside world. The leaky gut can also set them up for type 1 diabetes as the milk protein sets off an auto-immune response that attacks the pancreas.

I haven't heard of the endorphin mimicry or risk of type 1 diabetes.

Autoimmune diseases in parents of children with infantile autism: a case-control study.

[kruss3]

Nigerian mothers who have moved to Sweden have 200 times the frequency of austistic babies as native Swedes. It is almost entirely about vitamin d deficiency in the pregnant mother and aggravated further by autoimmune issues in the vitamin d deficient baby.