Mercury poisoning. For all you extremly mild mild Aspies.

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NAC (n-acetyl-cysteine)

that seems to be the main supplement recommended for increasing glutathione production.

IMO if you get into this dietary stuff, its sensible to look at the balance of your diet carefully and rectify any suspected deficiencies by introducing/increasing natural food sources before popping pills.

i looked up the wiki page on glutathione sythesase deficiency. No explicit mention of autism or mercury toxicity. although there seems to be some overlap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutathion ... deficiency

That sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. That's far from the real big bang theory.

You seem to like words like "scientific" and "studies" and "proven". However, the unformation in your posts seems to have pseudo scientific elements .

IE : Regardless of whether there is a link between mercury and autism, the magnetic bath treatment you are proposing is one of those expensive alternative therapies that are not proven to work and most likely are just a waste of time. You posted a picture which quite francly looks like anything... Do you think it is actually mercury? I have no idea . What guarantee do you have it is mercury instead of just a bunch of stains caused from whatever the reaction between your treatment and your body salts and filth cause?...

Another part of your post that sounds like pseudoscience talking is the part in which you claim that "no study has proven the link to be false". If it was actual science, you would say that no study has proven the link to be true... We can't just assume the link to be true with no evidence whatsoever and expect studies to come and debunk it. Thing is that there have been no correctly made studies that were successful at proving any link between the two. Therefore science asks us not to assume it to be true. What you are suggesting is something in the line of "No experiment has proven God not to exist".


You have also said there are studies that have proven a link between Glutathione deficiency , autism and mercury poisoning, but you have linked nothing...

So the questions are..
- What are the studies you are mentioning?
- With what sort of confidence can you claim that your baths actually work at all?
- Forget about them working at all. Are you sure those baths are actually SAFE for you?

I don't believe its caused by it and its unlikely every baby with autism has a ridiculous build up of mercury. All of us, aspies and NTs alike are riddled with heavy metal and don't trust these scams to get rid of it it can be very dangerous to detox yourself of heavy metals.

Whenever the OP tries to call something "scientific", all I can do is shake my head and do an Inigo Montoya imitation.

"You use that word so often. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Mercury is not magnetic, therefore said magnetic bath would not do a thing. It's possible that it could also hurt you by drawing out metals that your body actually NEEDS (i.e. iron, it is both magnetic and essential to a functioning human body). I would not be drawn in by these claims.

Now as for the autism/mercury link, I have for a while come to the conclusion that while mercury poisoning may manifest symptoms similar to autism, it is merely a coincidence.

That is not to say, however, that a bodily imbalance of metals is not the cause or at least a contributing factor. I've heard that magnesium plays a large part in brain function and that lack of it may be a contributing factor; matter of fact right now I'm taking magnesium supplement along with a B-vitamin supplement to help absorb the Mg.

You pretty much completely owned the idea of a stupid magnetic bath. Well done.



Don't think so. Everyone in my family has an extreme mg problem, Mum is NT and has to get it injected with large amounts of the stuff. I'm lacking in it but i don't think it does anything in terms of aspergers, I take supplements and huge doses at times.

I'm under the impression most of society is lacking in well, everything.