#016 PRESENTATION: Rhonda Speaks at the Orthomolecular Congress in Bussum, Netherlands
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Vitamin D Regulates T-Regulatory Cells in the Fetus
Mothers of autistic children are four times as likely to have antibodies in their blood against proteins that are in the brain. Vitamin D turns on the gene that makes serotonin in the brain, it turns off the gene that make serotonin in the gut and also in the placenta. In mice, if you delete the enzyme IDO, so that tryptophan cannot be metabolized into chinaerine or into the t-regulatory cells, female mice have such a strong autoimmune response against the fetus that their immune system kills the fetus.
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