Well, in my opinion, and the research we did set a lot of this off, we knew that there were four boys to every girl, so Dr. Mark Lovell and I, sitting down talking about our studies on looking at the toxic effects of Thimerosal on neurons in culture, decided we would pre-treat the neurons with estradiol or testos-
terone to see what would happen – would this enhance the tox-icity – and the results were dramatic. The estradiol actually pro-tected against the Thimerosal toxicity. I mean at the lower lev-els of Thimerosal that we used that would kill the neurons, or over half of them in 24 hours, we could almost totally prevent that by adding estradiol. When we put in the testosterone, at levels where testosterone had no affect on the normal life span of these cells the neurons were all dead within three hours at levels of Thimerosal alone that took over 24 hours to kill about 80% of the neurons.
So the presence of testosterone dramatically enhanced the killing power of Thimerosal to neurons in culture; whereas, the female hormone had the opposite effect. Then when we fol-lowed up on that, we ran into a report by a Dr. Baron-Cohen from England that implicated testosterone increases in children who have a lot of autistic-like problems.
Quelle:
https://www.whale.to/v/haley.pdf
