One in Four Women With Under-performing Thyroids Have Autistic Children
Can there be any more suppositions about why children are born with autism? Now a new study has found that women low in thyroid hormones "are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women," according to newswise.com. As someone who has always struggled with an under-performing thyroid (and take medication for it), this was interesting to me. I'm not planning on having any more children but did my son really come that close to autism? More than 4,000 Dutch women and their children were studied and "and it supports a growing view that autism spectrum disorders can be caused by a lack of maternal thyroid hormone, which past studies have shown is crucial to the migration of fetal brain cells during embryo development," the Web site said. "It is increasingly apparent to us that autism is caused by environmental factors in most cases, not by genetics," newswise.com quoted lead author Gustavo Román, M.D., a neurologist and n...