Northern Nutritionals

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  • Methylation

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    Karline Jensen
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    James et al. (2004) looked at metabolites of methylation in the blood of 20 autistic children and compared them with a control group of 33 healthy children.  They found that the autistic children had lower S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and higher S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) compared to the control group (indicating impaired methylation), with the ratio of SAM to…