Blood Hint's At Autism's Source

In this story researchers found a key to what might cause autism. They found something different in one autistic kid's blood that wasn't in any other normal kid's. They then tested 75 autistic children and 75 regular children and everyone of the autistic kid's had the same distinct quality and not one of the other healthy kid's. They discovered that the blood in autistic kid's have unusually low amounts of the antioxidant glutathione in their blood cells. This antioxidant normally binds to heavy metals, and the body the targets the metals or elimination. The researchers suspect that autism develops under the combined effect of several gene mutations that destroy glutathione and of exposure of a child to heavy metals or other poisons.

This is a very remarkable discovery for mankind. This could lead to a scientific breakthrough for the cure to autism. I really think this is an amazing discovery. This could be the start of something very, very big.