Autism ...The Vitamin D and Glycine Deficiency Connection?

More and more information is coming out on the connection between autism and low vitamin D.  How I came across all this, is that I was looking at a map of autism rates and saw they were higher in the northern states.  That tweaked my brain, and then I started googling "autism and vitamin D."  D is the "sunshine" vitamin, since your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin.  Information is just now coming out on all of this.  In a large Somali settlement in Sweden, they now call autism "The Swedish Disease," because their children don't get it in Somalia, a warm climate, but they do in Sweden! 

There are stories of children who were unable to talk and with correction of this deficiency, were able to regain their speech.   We have an idea about what might be the initiator of autism!

At one time, 1 in 10,000 was affected, and now some say 1 in 68, I hope this isn't true but they are saying now that it will be one in 3 by 2035.  Those numbers are unsustainable.  Some people are beginning to think that autism could also be a Glycine deficiency. 

GLYCINE?

Glycine is the 2nd most important amino acid in the body.  Obviously if something blocked it, there would be some serious effects.  Some have speculated that a popular weed product made of altered synthetic Glycine (it fits the same receptor site as real Glycine) may be blocking this very important amino acid.  A woman tried to commit suicide by drinking this week killer and it shut her gut down.  Glycine is what promotes gut motility, many autistic kids are badly constipated.  If you Google the phrase "Autistic kids are constipated", there may be something to all this because there are over 16 million hits on that!  Glycine causes the food to move through the gut in a process called peristalsis. 

WHAT ELSE DOES GLYCINE DO?

Glycine is needed to make proteins, but especially to break down proteins, and this would explain why many autistic kids have serious problems breaking down gluten (wheat protein) and casein (milk protein.)  Well then how do we get more Glycine in the diet? The Amish rarely have autism, and they have diets very high in protective Glycine, which is found mainly in the skin (collagen) and bones (gelatin).  Of course, we don't eat the skin and bones, but we can make simmered bone broths that are high in Glycine.  You've heard people talk about this, but bone broths are so healthy!  I made some delicious chicken broth the other day!  I bought bone in chicken and left the skin on as I slow simmered it.  I then removed the skin and the bones after I made it.  Collagen and gelatin protect from infection and inflammation.  Good old slow simmered chicken soup helping kick a cold is not a myth! 

AUTISTIC KIDS ARE NOT LAZY...they are exhausted!

Glycine does something else amazing, it promotes energy, it helps form ATP energy in the gut.  Many autistic kids are super low energy.  I Googled the phrase "Autistic kids are lazy."  There were 10 million hits on that!  Maybe we are onto something with the Glycine. 

The modern idea of health is to eat boneless meat and skinless meat, but that is not healthy at all.  

GLUTEN...4 times higher in the autistic brain.  If gluten is an excitotoxin, Glycine inhibits it!  Vitamin D inhibits it.

Mercury was removed from the vaccines and that should have fixed the problem, but it didn’t.  We now know that they use a gluten base to make the vaccines and come to find out, gluten cannot be broken down without Glycine and D.  Some have also said that some vaccines have glyphosate, which is the bad synthetic Glycine that fits the good Glycine receptor.  The secret is not to avoid the vaccines but to simply be sure that the mother when pregnant gets enough D and Glycine to protect them. Again, we look at the Amish, they eat meat the old fashioned way, in bone with the skin on, and they rarely have autism.  

But with low D caused from the vaccines and then the child is fed a high gluten diet as well, (wheat, processed lunch meats, some highly flavored chips and junk food, most canned soups, and pretty much most processed foods…) then it is hard for them to ever get out of the hole and especially if the mom uses sunscreen on them anytime they go outside, since our bodies make vitamin D when the sunlight touches our skin.  

Of course, we have to use wisdom.  It’s not good to get sunburned for sure, but we all need an appropriate healthy amount of sunshine for good health!  And people need natural foods that have not been blasted with gluten to make them artificially taste good.  Of course, you can discuss all this with your health provider.  And, if you like, you can Google "vitamin D and autism" to find a massive amount of additional information on the web! 

A SURPRISING HIDDEN SOURCE OF GLUTEN!! 

In the 1990s, autism began to slowly explode, it was at this time that folic acid was being added to so many processed foods.  98% of children with autism have a genetic flaw that does not allow them to break down folic acid (Pteroyl-l-glutamate) Between the food processors using wheat that had higher levels of gluten, and they add add'l gluten to the foods for flavoring, and they add extra folic acid (gluten), these kids don't have a chance.  This is new information and it is just now coming out and of course, there is always resistance to new ideas. Vitamin D is important to these kids.  Vitamin D blocks glutamate.  Glycine balances glutamate.  Kids with autism have 4 times the glutamate in their brains, than others do.

This is new information and it is just now coming out and of course, there is always resistance to new ideas.  I remember not long back, they didn’t know that ulcers were caused by bacteria, and the cure was low stress and drink milk!  New information comes out all the time.  Ulcers were caused by H-pylori!  Glad they are learning more about the connection between vitamin D deficiency and Glycine deficiency and autism.  Vitamin D blocks glutamate, and Glycine does too.  Of course, discuss any health decisions with your own health provider!  We are just bringing up some interesting things to look at.

Many people are having success with wheat free and dairy free diets too.  Although, if you have sufficient Glycine, you might not have to.  Every person is different.  Eating organic foods is one way to avoid the synthetic Glycine.  It can't fill the real receptor site if it already has sufficient Glycine there first. Also beets have a lot of Glycine, and kiwis.  We continue to learn.

Remember, we are not saying to not do vaccines, we are saying that we can protect ourselves with this new information.  We can't get away from chemicals, but we can protect ourselves other ways.