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Despite speculation that children that suffer from autism have higher mercury levels in their blood, it has recently been discovered that children with autism have mercury levels that are very similar to those of non-autistic children, suggesting that the mysterious disorder is cause by a range of factors rather than just “a single smoking gun,” said researchers.

The research team at the University of California, Davis initially found that children between the ages of 2 and 5 with autism had mercury levels that were lower than other children because they ate less fish, which is the biggest source of mercury that shows up in our blood. However, when the data was adjusted for the lower fish consumption, the blood-mercury concentrations amount the autistic children were roughly similar to those children that were developing normally. The children with autism also had mercury levels that were in line with national norms.

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