Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

Ion channels will open up

more when the temperature rises.

So something about the circuits functioning differently during that.

But it's mostly anecdotic at this point.

And it's certainly, again, probably not present in all individuals with autism, also because autism is, again, not one single disease.

So we would not expect it to be present in all.

I think, again, almost everything has been associated or thought to be causal.

But generally, demonstrating this is very, very difficult.

So we cannot deny that perhaps improving the microbiome will improve the quality of life of some of these individuals.

But whether it's really causal, there's no clear evidence for it.

Think about it.

Just to give you another example, think about sleep.

Many patients will report, especially the ones that are profoundly impaired, will have severe sleep disturbances.

I mean, 70%, 80% of them, they can have nights where they sleep very little, then do that for like a week.

So just imagine even just improving the quality of sleep for those patients can do miracle.

I mean, all of us, right?

If we don't sleep for three, four days, our social skills, you know, we become socially impaired.

So I think, of course, correcting a lot of these issues.

So for instance, many patients are picky eaters.

You know, they don't like certain textures.