SUPPLEMENTS R - U
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RIBOFLAVIN (B2)
Potential Benefits of B2:
  • Helps your body break down fats, protein, and carbohydrates 
  • Helps your body produce red blood cells
  • Produces healthy skin and vision
  • Keeps healthy brain and nervous system
  • Needed for healthy production of MTHFR (mutated enzyme often found in kids with autism)
Helpful Hints:
  • Deficiency can cause abnormal sensitivity to light
  • Deficiency in children hinders normal growth
  • Antidepressants (tricyclic) reduce effectiveness of B2

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Sulfur 
Potential Benefits of Sulfur:
  • It is an essential mineral needed for many functions in the body
  • Helps detoxify and regenerate new tissue
  • Enables the transport of oxygen across cell membranes
  • A precursor for the utilization of amino acids, the body’s building blocks
  • Sulphate is important for detoxification of metals and other toxins.
  • Sulfur is key in Methylation

Helpful Hints:
  • Boys excrete more sulfur than girls, so they may be more susceptible to sulfation problems. This may have something to do with why more boys than girls tend to have autism.

Low sulfur levels could cause many problems:
  • If the intestine lacks sulfur, the result is a leaky gut.
  • The body makes excess oxalates if sulfur is low.
  • Sulphate is needed to release pancreatic digestive enzymes.
  • Many enzymes are impaired if sulfur levels are low.
  • Sulfur is needed for the body to make the hormone CCK, which stimulates oxytocinergic neurons to release oxytocin.  So, a lack of sulfur could explain the low oxytocin levels found in autism, which is important for socialization.
  • The perineuronal nets around neurons, which modulate their function, are primarily composed of chondroitin sulfur.  Low sulfur would thus yield less modulation of neurons.

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THIAMINE (B1)
Potential benefits of B1: 
  • Maintains health of mucous membranes 
  • Leads to proper brain function (memory and learning) and healthy mental attitude
  • Supports normal functioning of nervous system, heart, and muscles (metabolism - converts carbohydrates into energy) 
  • Helps to produce hydrochloric acid (HCL) in the stomach, essential for proper digestion of food
  • Helps treat herpes zoster and beriberi (B1 deficiency) 
  • Restores deficiencies caused by alcoholism, cirrhosis, overactive thyroid, infection, breastfeeding, absorption diseases, pregnancy, prolonged diarrhea, and burns
  • Reduces depression, fatigue, and motion sickness 
  • Leads to potential improvement in appetite and mental alertness      

Helpful Hints:
  • Antibiotics can decrease thiamine levels 
  • Strongly consider if your child has suffered from gastrointestinal disorders which may have effected absorption of this vitamin  
  • A thiamine deficiency can starve the brain of the fuel it needs to function properly, causing damage and inflammation to the brain

TMG
Potential benefits of TMG:
  • Enhances immune response
  • Reduces lactic acid buildup
  • Helps with liver detoxification
  • Can help improve verbal communication and social interaction
  • May reduce seizures
  • Can help improve immune dysfunction
  • Can help with brain neurotransmitter production
  • Can help lower homocysteine levels
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Helpful Hint:
  • TMG supplementation may sometimes produce hyperactivity in autistic children. Folic acid appears to help neutralize this effect.
  • As a methyl donor supplement, it helps protect cellular DNA from mutation.



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