In 2009, Emily Deans, MD, wrote an extensive piece in Psychology Today outlining the theory of the connection between autism and vitamin D. My second article is open access, discusses some of the autism/vitamin D evidence, and can be fully accessed at: In 2009, Life Extension ® Magazine published a detailed description of the theory. In 2008, I first published 4 and later extended 5 epidemiological and animal data connecting vitamin D deficiency with autism. Over the past few years, evidence has been mounting that vitamin D is involved in the autism epidemic. Moreover, vitamin D regulates hundreds, if not thousands, of the 21,000 identified coding genes of the human genome. That means it has as many different mechanisms of action as it does genes it regulates. Instead, it is the only known substrate of a seco-steroid neurohormone that functions, like all steroids, by turning genes “on” and “off”. I first became interested in vitamin D when I learned it is not a vitamin. For the last 11 years, I have been obsessed with vitamin D and for the last four years, I have been obsessed with vitamin D and autism. Learning about this was like “coming out of the closet.” It explains so much of myself to me, especially my tendency to get obsessed with things. I (John Cannell, MD) recently learned that I have the Broad Autism Phenotype, or what some people call mild autism.
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