Autism Zinc Link

Could zinc help prevent autism? - Telegraph

Japanese researchers who took hair samples from nearly 2,000 diagnosed autistic children, aged from birth to three, found almost half of them had a zinc deficiency.

The team, from the La Belle Vie Research Laboratory in Tokyo, concluded that zinc deficiency could lead to autism.

They wrote in the journal Scientific Reports: "These findings suggest that infantile zinc deficiency may epigenetically contribute to the pathogenesis of autism and nutritional approach may yield a novel hope for its treatment and prevention."