David Quig

TL;DR: The strong correlation of gastrointestinal symptoms with autism severity indicates that children with more severe autism are likely to have more severe gastrointestinal symptoms and vice versa.

TL;DR: The autism group had many statistically significant differences in their nutritional and metabolic status, including biomarkers indicative of vitamin insufficiency, increased oxidative stress, reduced capacity for energy transport, sulfation and detoxification.

TL;DR: Oral vitamin/mineral supplementation is beneficial in improving the nutritional and metabolic status of children with autism, including improvements in methylation, glutathione, oxidative stress, sulfation, ATP, NADH, and NADPH.

TL;DR: Low iodine levels are consistent with previous reports of abnormal thyroid function, which likely affected development of speech and cognitive skills, and low lithium levels in the mothers likely caused low levels of lithium in the young children, which could have affected their neurological and immunological development.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a comprehensive nutritional and dietary intervention is effective at improving nutritional status, non-verbal IQ, autism symptoms, and other symptoms in most individuals with ASD.