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Neurodivergent 17w

Learning that a potential (but not the only) cause of autism is mitochondrial dysfunction (I’m autistic and neurobiology is my special interest 😋)

Anonymous 17w

How do you treat mitochondrial dysfunction

Anonymous 17w

i’ve heard of mitochondrial dna being passed down through female descendants- would that reinforce the genetic aspect? i’ve noticed it tends to be more strongly expressed in the women of my family than the men

Anonymous

#1 17w

That’s the fun part, you don’t! (In reality it differs greatly depending on how the dysfunction manifests. There is no true “treatment” without gene editing, but there are quite a few medications/remedies that can improve mitochondrial function And ofc this isn’t the *only* cause of autism. Just interesting that it can be one of them lol

Anonymous

OP 17w

Forgot to add another ) 😔

Anonymous

#2 17w

The main type that I’ve been looking into are pretty standard genetic mutations that aren’t linked to sex chromosomes (and just démens on dominant/recessive type genetics) but there are definitely some out there. A ton of different conditions can affect mitochondrial function 🤷‍♂️