Autism and vitamin D.

From: Townsend Letter | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Cannell, John J. | Copyright information

Any theory of autism's etiology must take into account its strong genetic basis, but also explain how genetics interacts with the environment to produce autism's unusual epidemiology. Activated vitamin D, calcitriol, is a potent neurosteroid hormone with critical roles in mammalian brain development. Calcitriol's physiology is unique among the steroid hormones, because normal steroid feedback kinetics does not regulate neural levels of calcitriol; human behavior does so. The appare...

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