The Better Baby Book

Author:Lana Asprey & David Asprey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118236246
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

The detoxifying benefits make vitamin D as important for prospective fathers as for expecting mothers. When a man deficient in vitamin D ingests toxins, they cause oxidative damage that can result in genetic mutations (genetic damage) in sperm. These mutations can lead to autism in children.

In a recent study, vitamin D proved so important for fetal nervous system and cognition development that even mothers who consumed more mercury-contaminated fish (fish naturally has some vitamin D) had babies with higher than average cognition. That is, vitamin D is so beneficial for a developing fetus that it counteracted the harmful effects of toxic mercury to produce a net benefit.

Another study proved that this net effect was not a result of the omega-3 fatty acids in the fish. Yet another concluded that mothers who consumed less mercury-contaminated fish during pregnancy had babies who exhibited more autistic symptoms than the babies of mothers who consumed more mercury-containing fish. Of course, eating mercury-free fish rich in vitamin D would be a better option, and fortunately it's an option we still have.

Vitamin D Deficiency and Autism

Research suggests that a vitamin D deficiency contributes to autism. This makes sense if autism is a neuroinflammatory condition, because vitamin D protects the body from neurotoxins. Consider these facts:

Autism is more common in cloudy, rainy regions.

People with darker skin have a higher rate of autism than people with lighter skin. Darker skin protects a person from ultraviolet exposure better than lighter skin does, but it also causes a person to make less vitamin D from a given level of sun exposure than a person with lighter skin would make.

Autism is more common in the northern United States than in the southern part of the country. There is less direct sun exposure in the northern regions.

Autism is more common in urban regions, where the lifestyle is more indoors, than in rural regions, where an outdoor lifestyle is common.

Bone abnormalities are more common in autistic children than they are in nonautistic children. The abnormalities often resemble mild cases of chronic rickets, a bone disorder resulting from a vitamin D deficiency.

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