• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Autistic brains are seen to have higher neuron counts, without synaptic pruning seen in normal brain development. So add more neurons?

    Does RFK even know what a stem cell is?

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      7 hours ago

      And is there any evidence that stem cells cross the blood brain barrier? I’m guessing (IANAD) they don’t and the “doctors” are actually counting on it protecting kids, because if they inject a kid and they shortly after have an aneurism or clot or whatever then the grift is over.

      Doing a brief search, this paper suggests the cells don’t pass the BBB or at least it can be hard to get the stem cells not to latch on to the wrong thing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9976985/

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        Even if they did, under what principle would they turn into neurons, organize and form connections?

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          3 hours ago

          And who’s to say (again, not an expert on autism) that additional connections would override existing bad connections or not make more bad connections? My son has congenital heart disease and I’m under no delusion that pumping him with stem cells would suddenly correct an organ that wasn’t properly formed at birth.