Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Gupta

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Hey chat, welcome to the Healthy Gamer GG podcast.

I'm Dr. Alok Kanuja, but you can call me Dr. K. I'm a psychiatrist, gamer, and co-founder of Healthy Gamer.

On this podcast, we explore mental health and life in the digital age, breaking down big ideas to help you better understand yourself and the world around you.

So let's dive right in.

Today we are going to talk about the relationship between acetaminophen and autism.

Dr. K has officially entered the fray.

I'm Dr. K and I have a purpose in life.

The White House recently released a statement and held a press conference talking about the link between acetaminophen and autism.

And there's a lot of stuff in the statement that I think is actually pretty good.

They cite one study from the Harvard School of Public Health, which is, let's remember, liberal academia, that shows that there is a correlation between autism and Tylenol or acetaminophen use.

And their conclusion, I know this sounds insane, is not wrong.

I think the problem is that it is also not right.

Now in order to understand what we mean by that, we have to start by understanding what autism spectrum disorder actually is.

It is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent social deficits and restrictive repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.

So what does that mean?

What is a neurodevelopmental disorder?

If I set out to build a house,

There is a typical way that a house looks, and there is a typical set of tools that I will use to build a house.