In Autism test could make the condition 'preventable', (U.K. Telegraph, 3 Jun 2010), Richard Alleyne reports:
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a particular makeup of gut microbes and the researchers have found that this can be detected with a simple urine test.
I want to link this observation with the following, reported by Maura Lynch in Emotional Eating: The Brain-Stomach Connection (Elle, 18 May 2010):
Unglamorous as it may sound, the gut is a physical and emotional powerhouse: It’s estimated to contain more than 200 million neurons, more than the spinal cord has, and can do its work (i.e., digestion) independent of the brain.
Knowing that autism is particularized by an inability to read others' emotions, it makes me wonder whether this should be read as pointing to the gut for an origin of autism rather than to the brain.
Bertrand du Castel
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a particular makeup of gut microbes and the researchers have found that this can be detected with a simple urine test.
I want to link this observation with the following, reported by Maura Lynch in Emotional Eating: The Brain-Stomach Connection (Elle, 18 May 2010):
Unglamorous as it may sound, the gut is a physical and emotional powerhouse: It’s estimated to contain more than 200 million neurons, more than the spinal cord has, and can do its work (i.e., digestion) independent of the brain.
Knowing that autism is particularized by an inability to read others' emotions, it makes me wonder whether this should be read as pointing to the gut for an origin of autism rather than to the brain.
Bertrand du Castel
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