Anonymous wrote:And trump will be pushing a drug to cure it. Ridiculous. Beyond ridiculous. It’s downright rude.
Leucovorin isnt a drug. Its a pharmaceutical grade vitamin.
Leucovorin works to treat not autism, but the autoimmune condition Cerebral folate deficiency which 60 to 70 percent of autistic people have as a comorbidity with autism. Cerebral folate deficiency is caused, largely, by antibodies that bind to or block the main folate receptors called folate receptor alpha. These antibodies prevent the folate thats consumed from metabolizing across the blood brain barrier. Blood folate levels are normal but lumbar punctures show severe deficiency of folate in the central nervous system (the brain). Folate is a crucial vitamin for normal brain development.
Leucovorin aka high dose folinic acid is able to bypass this blockade because it can be metabized through a different pathway.