@skinnylatte As a relevant aside, I actually do take a stack of about 10 daily supplements that distinctly help with aspects of my autism, each of which has research backing it for autism specifically and has been personally effective for me.
Generic B vitamin supplementation is not in the list.
B12 is critical for a healthy nervous system, and all food sources are unreliable, but hence everyone should supplement it. It's not autism specific at all.
I have distinct reasoning for each one and have arrived at this list through a good few years of reading publicly available studies then trying things on myself.
I also take benfotiamine, which is a form of B1, and there is some degree of indication from research a role may be there in autism. But it's less clear than the others at this stage.
@skinnylatte I worked there for a bunch of years and we used to have this guy come in and give free nutritional classes in the seating area. It was all woo like that. The final straw for me, where I got him banned from the store, was when he taught that “selenium cures AIDS”. His reasoning was that AIDS patients were deficient in Se, and sharks have high levels of Se, and “sharks don’t get cancer”, therefore… uhhh… And when I asked for proof, he referred me to his own website.
@skinnylatte I mean I guess autistic people should definitely get their vitamin B. But that’s because they like everyone else are people, not because they are autistic.
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