Glucose loading cures everything?
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Has Dr. Stevens treated anyone with severe autism? A family member of mine is 31, severely autistic, non verbal and sometimes bangs his head, necessitating a helmet at times. He is extremely sensitive to many things, his mother has given up on any detox, the reactions to even some B vitamins can be extreme. I haven't read Dr. Stevens book, but am wondering if glucose could help someone like him or if it could trigger too much detox. He is having trouble walking at this point and his mother is losing hope.
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@Sippy I don't know. But I would probably try it. Dr. Stephens may actually reinforce this, who knows, because he has used it apparently with people who had all sorts of brain issues. He really points to all problems as originating in the brain, resulting in hyperglycolysis, resulting in throttling of glucose, resulting in...all sorts of mental illness and issues. So yeah. Yeah. And I can't see how it would cause harm.
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@Sippy said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
Has Dr. Stevens treated anyone with severe autism? A family member of mine is 31, severely autistic, non verbal and sometimes bangs his head, necessitating a helmet at times. He is extremely sensitive to many things, his mother has given up on any detox, the reactions to even some B vitamins can be extreme. I haven't read Dr. Stevens book, but am wondering if glucose could help someone like him or if it could trigger too much detox. He is having trouble walking at this point and his mother is losing hope.
It's definitely worth a try.
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@Sippy
Short answer: Yes, i think it can be helpful.Longer musing: I think people who are neurodivergent and already have issues with neurotransmitters are at higher risk for trouble with the Itaconate shunt, because it causes the GABA shunt, which leads to neurotransmitters being used for ATP instead of what they're supposed to be used for.
There's also a strange phenomenon with autism where people have seen symptoms disappear when they have a fever. If symptoms disappear when the Itaconate shunt is not actived (the fever may indicate the adaptive immune system is activated), maybe debilitating autism is "just" another manifestation (one of many) of the Itaconate shunt (the innate immune system not letting the adaptive immune system do it's job).
(Edit: Actually not sure that a fever may indicate the adaptive immune system is activated; I just very rarely have a fever since my Itaconate shunt issues started - and on the rare occasion I have a fever I've experienced certain symptoms get better. Here's an article about the phenomenon: https://news.mit.edu/2024/understanding-why-autism-symptoms-sometimes-improve-amid-fever-0523)
Hope they can find some relief, it sounds challenging.
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@gentlepotato said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
Here's an article about the phenomenon: https://news.mit.edu/2024/understanding-why-autism-symptoms-sometimes-improve-amid-fever-0523
"developmentally determined" hmm
@ThinPicking said in Propranolol, agression & autism:
Maybe Wakefield was right
@sippy have a read of that thread and the blog link. After GPs insight there.
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Bumping this thread. I want to see MORE!
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@Kilgore welcome!
Thanks for the nudge, I've been meaning to share a bit. I'll try to soon, but I'm still having reactivations and immune responses - which I think is positive, but it's quite exhausting.
Is there anything in particular you'd like to know?
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I also would love to see more. Very interesting.
My experience with dextrose is a definite stabilization of mood and euphoria, typically I need 50g to feel this and 50g sugar does the same in terms of direction of effect, but not strength.
