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Low Vit D in pregnancy linked to autism
In their latest study, Professor Darryl Eyles and Dr Asad Ali from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute found vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy caused an increase in testosterone in the developing brain of male rats.“The biological cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is unknown but we have shown that one of the many risk factors — low vitamin D in mothers — causes an increase in testosterone in the brain of the male foetuses, as well as the maternal blood and amniotic fluid,” Professor…
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