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my son has high anxiety high functioning autism struggles with racing thoughts at night and cannot sleep.

Any recommendation for him?

Yeah, there are a lot of doctors right now who are treating this scenario.

So the big thing is with the sleep and the racing thoughts, we do see with autistic scenarios,

it's important to get different testing done. One of them is on

organic acids. So an organic acid test through Great Plains Lab is a great place to start with a doctor.

And then generally speaking, we see that there's a breakdown in what's called the metallothionine

barrier system.

And so that is zinc dependent and sulfur dependent.

And so a lot of times when you're on the spectrum,

you don't have the ability to make those.

So those are the two scenarios that we look at that can really impact and help sleep is getting the zinc,

sulfur, and metallithionine proteins improved, and then getting the organic acids balance.

Because sometimes you'd be surprised when your metathionine barrier system is not working in the gut,

it's going to impact the brain.

But the thing about the metallithining barrier system is it binds to all of the metals that are in our food. And people don't realize this, but there's

heavy metals in everything you eat. And so, especially if it's not organic, there's even more,

but those metals get bound in our gut and taken out right away instead of being absorbed.

When you're on the spectrum, you've lost that ability.

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