>>Scientific research continues to uncover interesting connections between the gut microbiome and human health, including everything from depression to PTSD to autoimmune disease. Another example of this are the emerging ties between gut health and autism, with an exciting new study demonstrating how boosting microbial diversity via fecal transplants can dramatically reduce its symptoms in the long term.

One in every 59 children born in the US is diagnosed with autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and unfortunately for many of them, chronic gastrointestinal issues are a harsh reality of their condition. According to scientists at Arizona State University (ASU), who conducted the new study, around 30 to 50 percent of autism sufferers experience serious gut problems like constipation, diarrhea and stomach pain.

“Many kids with autism have gastrointestinal problems, and some studies, including ours, have found that those children also have worse autism-related symptoms,” says ASU’s Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown,. “In many cases, when you are able to treat those gastrointestinal problems, their behavior improves.”<<

It is beginning to sound like we are only robots constructed and controlled by single cell organisms.

https://newatlas.com/fecal-transplants-autism-symptoms-reduction/59278/

shit eh

The full report, if anyone wants to read it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42183-0

So does this feed into the “let the kids play in the dirt to build up their immunity” thing?

buffy said:

So does this feed into the “let the kids play in the dirt to build up their immunity” thing?

Apparently you pick up a lot of good bacteria during a natural child-birth,

Oh, fecal transplants. I read it as face transplants.

I was wondering how many autistic people have had face transplants, that they can be talking confidently of such things.

Bubblecar said:

Oh, fecal transplants. I read it as face transplants.

Be shit faced if you get em confused.