The real underlying deeper cellular cause of autism involves oxidative stress to neurons

leading to neuronal toxicity and inflammation.

Basically, there's inflammation in the brain and there's a lot of free radical damage,

but there's not enough antioxidant protection to counter that.

Now, your body makes antioxidants and they can come from the diet.

But I did a huge deep dive into this topic and I found some really

interesting information on some common deficiencies with many people who have autism.

Number one, they tend to have low amounts of antioxidants.

I already mentioned that, especially glutathione.

That's the master antioxidant in the body that does a tremendous amount of work

in protecting you and getting rid of toxicity and free radical damage.

There's also low vitamin A, there's low vitamin E, low vitamin D,

there's low zinc, selenium, low magnesium, and low omega-3.

There's also mitochondrial dysfunction, which is not surprising,

because anytime you have oxidative stress, you're going to have problems

in the mitochondria, deep within the neuron.

And there's also something called high homocysteine, which you may connect with heart problems,

but in this case, it can create degenerative symptoms in the brain.

And the solution for that is B12 in folate in a certain form, which I'll cover in a bit.

And there's also amino acid abnormalities,

probably because of all the oxidation going on.

These amino acids are really important because they actually the raw material

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