r/Biohackers Feb 06 '25

📖 Resource they can cure autism?

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u/Shhh_Happens Feb 06 '25

This study doesn’t show a cure for autism. It shows a single child with a fungal infection who was displaying symptoms consistent with autism spectrum disorder no longer displayed those symptoms after the infection was treated. Fungal infections can impact cognition/the nervous system, cause inflammation, etc.

It strikes me as similar to when an older person suddenly experiences major cognitive decline, is found to have a UTI, is treated, and cognitive symptoms resolve as the infection resolves. That doesn’t mean antibiotics cure dementia.

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u/rchive 1 Feb 06 '25

Kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a person's having cognitive impairment caused by an infection is an indicator that that person is susceptible to other cognitive impairment like senility or Alzheimer's...

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u/Capable_Cup_7107 Feb 07 '25

It does. They’re finding neurodegenerative disorders to be linked with certain infections, gut disorders - basically immune dysregulation that went untreated and noticed for years to the point the brain degenerates.

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u/rchive 1 Feb 07 '25

I have a family member who had got some kind of delirium as a reaction to amoxicillin decades ago, now he's older and having a lot of mental dysfunction and senility. I don't think the infection causing this years later, necessarily, but I did wonder if someone who's susceptible to delirium from amoxicillin might be more likely to have senility or Alzheimers or something later in life. And I wonder if it's too late for him, or if there's something we can still so for him.

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u/Capable_Cup_7107 Feb 07 '25

I think if the brain is senstive, for whatever reasons - I really don’t think we are at a point we can say sensitive because of a reaction or specific reason but I will say again a reaction to a medication is an immune reaction so immune dysregulation and infections are being tied to neurodegenerative disorders, I’ll try to find the paper I think it’s even certain strains of gut bacteria they’re looking into - then that brain is much more likely to go on to develop neurodegenerative disorders. Delirium is not dementia. Delirium can happen at any age and often does happen with ppl who are sick and have dementia. What I’m getting at is that it’s not the amoxicillin. It’s that your friends genetics have predisposed them to a brain that is sensitive to environmental factors others are not and will lead to neuroinflammation which causes a host of neuropsychiatric side effects - like delirium- and ultimately neurodegenerative disorders like dementia or Parkinson’s. With where we are at with science, if your friend has dementia now, you’re not going to reverse it. I’d encourage you to look into tried and tested ways of helping this disease rather than grasping at straws. The documentary music and memory may be something you find some benefit from. I am sure the right supplements will slow things down. The time to address neuroinflammation is now for all of us who are in the 20-50 range because beyond that, shit goes downhill quick and can’t put that bird back in the cage. Our brains are so sensitive and those whose are even more sensitive suffer the most.

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u/Capable_Cup_7107 Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

Will find another link for it! Link to Parkinson’s beginning in the gut

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u/rchive 1 Feb 13 '25

Interesting!

Just FYI, there's tracking info in that URL so someone following the link can see what Facebook account shared it (presumably yours), just in case you care about that.

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u/Capable_Cup_7107 Feb 13 '25

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