Is There a Link Between Autism and Anorexia (yes, vitamin D)

Is There a Link Between Autism and Anorexia? The Atlantic

• “Some estimates hold that as much as 20 percent of people with enduring eating disorders have autism.”

• “Early genetic studies in the 1990s showed that anorexia is strongly heritable and tends to run in families”

• “Swedish psychologist Christopher Gillberg published a British Journal of Psychiatry paper that hypothesized a link between autism and anorexia.”

• “In 2007, Zucker and her colleagues outlined the potential links between autism and anorexia in a 31-page review article that revealed just how similar the two conditions can be”

  Article does not mention Vitamin D

See also VitaminDWiki

• AN old along with other associations

• Rickets – 26 percent had autism: no rickets, no autism (both associated with low vitamin D) – June 2015

• Autistic boys have poor bones (most likely due to low vitamin D) – Nov 2016

  Autism treated by Vitamin D: Dr. Cannell - video June 2013

includes many reasons why he believes Autism is related to Vitamin D

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