Sorry about the misleading thread title, but a more descriptive title was much too long.

Mice with autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) induced by maternal obesity and high-fat diet showed improvement in several areas, including social interactions and behavioural improvements, after eating the faeces of “normal” mice. Further study indicated that the bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri was largely responsible, and that the brains of ASD mice (caused by maternal high-fat diet) showed reduction of oxytocin immunoreceptive neurons in the paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus.

Microbial Reconstitution Reverses Maternal Diet-Induced Social and Synaptic Deficits in Offspring (full text available, and fascinating.)

i wonder if some kind of vaccine can be made….

ChrispenEvan said:

i wonder if some kind of vaccine can be made….

…of course a vaccine can be made. What do you think we are? Frickin stupid?

> autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) induced by maternal obesity and high-fat diet

Huh?!

mollwollfumble said:

> autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) induced by maternal obesity and high-fat diet

Huh?!

Did you bother to read the article?
The first line said:

Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that exposure to maternal obesity in utero increases the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children

Also see
Maternal metabolic conditions and risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
High-fat maternal diet during pregnancy persistently alters the offspring microbiome in a primate model.
Maternal high fat diet consumption during the perinatal period programs offspring behavior.

ChrispenEvan said:

i wonder if some kind of vaccine can be made….

I don’t know. Maybe an autism vaccine would cause measles, mumps, and rubella.

KJW said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i wonder if some kind of vaccine can be made….

I don’t know. Maybe an autism vaccine would cause measles, mumps, and rubella.

Ha.

Bubblecar said:

KJW said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i wonder if some kind of vaccine can be made….

I don’t know. Maybe an autism vaccine would cause measles, mumps, and rubella.

Ha.

Wouldn’t it contain antibodies?

only for autism.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

KJW said:

I don’t know. Maybe an autism vaccine would cause measles, mumps, and rubella.

Ha.

Wouldn’t it contain antibodies?

It might contain anti-busy-bodies……….

Prepared to be corrected but I don’t think vaccines contain antibodies. They contain the proteins of the thing they are trying to vaccinate against to make you make your own antibodies,

Yep. either dead or live that has been attenuated so they are less ‘aggressive”.

what KJW was doing was answering my joke with his.

:-)

ChrispenEvan said:

Yep. either dead or live that has been attenuated so they are less ‘aggressive”.

what KJW was doing was answering my joke with his.

:-)

Love is in the air……..

presumably there’re savant mice too then

it’s not the ‘anti vaccine’ movement now it’s the ‘pro choice’ movement.. they relabeled

“no-one is anti vaccine, they are pro choice”