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Autism's Cause?
Can epigenetics finally explain autism's causes?
| I know this has little to do with strategies toward bonding parents
with their children, however, no parent can be exposed to autism and
not want to know why. I am looking to spare you the countless hours of
hunting the web for answers so you can spend more time focusing on your
relationship with your child. Furthermore, understanding the causes of
your child's condition will help you deal with his or her problematic
behaviors with more compassion and empathy. There are many theories out there, but they all seem to have loose ends swinging in the breeze. Some say that the increase in thimerosal laced vaccines is to blame. However, cases of autism have only increased since the ethyl mercury was removed from childhood vaccines. Some say it's overload from the live virus vaccines themselves, but what about the children showing signs of autism at birth? Some say it's hard genetics, but that's incomplete as well. There are cases of twins with confirmed identical DNA, yet one is severely autistic while the other is a normally developing child. Others say it's tied to older men, that our genetic material is breaking down as we age, but there are plenty of younger parents who bare autistic children. Others blame man made poisons like pesticides and coal burning power plants, yet the causal relationship has been elusive, especially when there is no trace of the compounds in the child's system. So what can tie all these loose ends? The new science of Epigenetics is about to change everyone's understanding of the environment, our genetics and how they interact. Scientists are discovering that even minute exposure to poisons generations ago can have grave effects on our children today. For example, recent experiments on lab animals exposed to pesticides expectantly exhibited neurological damage and autistic like behaviors (of course). The scientists were careful to compare the animal's hard genetic code before and after exposure to the pesticides and determined it was perfectly intact and undamaged. The animals were then bred. Shockingly their descendants up to four generations later showed the same incidence of neurological problems even though they were never directly exposed to the pesticides. Even though there was no trace in the offspring's blood work and their hard DNA was intact, they were still profoundly affected by pesticides exposed generations before them. So what caused this? Dads And Autism reveals how epigenetics is building the bridge to "evidence of harm" and may finally prove many of the things scientists and parents have suspected all along, but have been unable to prove until now. |
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