The Autism Nexus: A Link Between the Gut Microbiome, Immune System, Brain Dysfunction and Vitamin D

I am very proud of our recent work published in the highly regarded Journal of Inflammation. http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/11/1/78 By clicking on the hyperlink you browser should take you straight to the article which is available for no cost at the journal’s website. Once you are there click on the pdf button (the yellow arrow shows you where to click once you get to the article on the web). Before you jump to article page let me explain in easier language why this article is so important. It is the first article any of us as authors have written that was accepted without any critique or changes, which means the reviewers thought very highly of it. While that is important, it is only part of the significance of our findings. It has always bothered me that minor changes on the gut bacteria and yeast (microbiome) could result in wild and crazy changes in a child’s behaviors. While that observation is common among those of us treating the biology of autism, it was actually very difficult to understand mechanistically at the level of the child’s biology, at least until now.

We believe we have uncovered the nexus (intersection) of the observations regarding Vitamin D deficiency, GcMAF observed improvements in behavior, see: http://www.la-press.com/initial-observations-of-elevated-al… , immune dysregulation, brain inflammatory changes (mostly in microglial regulation), and the microbiome. Briefly, the endocannabinoid system is part of the cell systems that regulate the immune system and the brain. In particular, it seems the CB2R (cannabinoid 2 receptor) reads the background environment of the individual (diet, microbiome, etc) and sets the tone of the immune defenses. Last year we published the first observations of CB2 dysfunction in autism (J Autism Dev Disord. 2013 Nov;43(11):2686-95. doi: 10.1007/s10803-013-1824-9.). With this follow on work it seems likely that the endocannabinoid system is at the center of the complex biomedical disruptions underpinning the autism epidemic we are observing. Now for your homework. Go the Journal of Neuroinflammation website and get the entire article. After you read it you can ask you questions. (use the link provided in the first paragraph).

Dr Bradstreet | April 24, 2014 at 8:25 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL:http://wp.me/p1n4ED-cS
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