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Suspected inefficiency of energy production in autistic kids may be related to less physical activity

This is a study that reported an inefficient production of energy in autism at the cellular level. The power plants of the cell (mitocondria) in autistics seemed to function at one third the efficiency seen in neurotypical children. The amazing part is that testing only 10 autistic children the mitochondrial energy production problem was evident.

Of course, anxiety and feeling threatened by strangers play a big role in many autistics withdrawal and refusal to play or other physical activity. However, this mitochondrial problem could be the cellular link that manifests in fatigue and poor stamina.

Nothing in the human body is caused by one factor or one process. Everything we feel, every symptom we experience is the result of multiple factors leading to it. The same applies here. Fatigue is a state of mind, caused by anxiety, fear and a long list of threats. Fatigue is mediated by many hormones, neurohormones and other chemicals in the body. Cellular fatigue is an undercurrent that contributes to the subjective feeling of fatigue. I hope this puts the recent finding into context.

Yet this finding has it's significance since stamina, strength and limb-eye coordination depend in large part on the availability of energy in the cells.

Rami Serhan, MD
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Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:33:54 -0700 1 in 6 people worldwide are hungry and children's numbers are more staggering: a power play or food shortage! http://psychesmartautismtm.posterous.com/1-in-6-people-worldwide-are-hungry-and-childr http://psychesmartautismtm.posterous.com/1-in-6-people-worldwide-are-hungry-and-childr

What a shame. it breaks your heart to read these statistics mentioned causally in a news report on Reuters and not given much attention by almost anyone outside the toothless NGO aid agencies. Governments and the UN keep talking about progress and about improving the human condition. They keep talking of plans to limit human suffering by this date and that date, but the suffering is constantly on the rise.

The spread of AIDS in Africa, the lack of clean drinking water in half the world, the genocide in Darfur, hunger and especially child hunger, and on and on it goes. Wealthy, powerful males are shown constantly on TV praising their own efforts to end these types on unnecessary suffering and the reports keep coming back that suffering only increases as a result.

I don't see how these problems are impossible to solve. We have obviously solved all of them in the western world (HIV getting there) and yet they seem to linger ever so dominantly in the rest of the world with no relief in sight.

This makes me wonder about the relationship between worldwide depravity and maintaining the grip on power by those currently holding it. My hypothesis is that to hold on to power and to strengthen your grip on it, you must be able to control people and neutralize them. It seems that power circles have figured out a few ways of doing that. Around here (US and the west in general), they make life so complicated that the individual is constantly lagging behind and is feeling the pressure of keeping up. They also tickle one's desires and instincts constantly so one is forced to work ever harder and for bigger corporations to keep up an illusory standard of living based in hoarding more and more non-essential material belongings. When all this fails, they resort to fear and demoralization to keep th population subdued and neutralized. This way the people in power can stay in power and become ever more powerful and dominant.

In the rest of the world, where people cannot really vote to strip someone of their powers, the fear among power circles is that once populations become aware of how life could be, they are likely to revolt and deprive the powerful of the resources they rely upon to stay in power. So the power circles have resolved to build a wall of adversity that is impossible to overcome. this wall of adversity includes, hunger, disease, genocide, civil war, unrest, instability, lack of social and educational institutions and so forth. All this results in people perceiving themselves as powerless and unable to get out of their misery. They maybe resentful and looking for someone to blame for their misery but as long as they cannot overcome the adversity they face, they will be unable to recognize the injustice imposed upon them let alone do something to improve their living conditions.

The power circles know this quite well, and they know that it is not in their best interest to have resolve these world problems. They know that if some of this adversity is removed and the playing field is leveled then individuals will start thinking for themselves, start feeling empowered and start taking control of their own resources and putting them to work for their own interests and progress.

This is a nightmarish scenario for the power circles and they will not let it happen as long as they have a say in it. The only times when they do let it happen is when they centralize it and in-debt it to them. This was the way this country gained its actual independence from Britain in 1812. The Brits would not leave until they made sure of two things. This country is heavily indebted to them and that its local communities are powerless with the majority of power lying with a few people in Washington. Once that was accomplished they did not need to keep their red coats around. There was no point. A central government with a strong grip on power that is heavily indebted to the Brits is a much more effective domination tool than than the daily headaches of direct occupation.

it is sad but it is true and it does still carry plenty of benefits that occupation would have deprived this country of. But is there a better way you ask. Well of course but not in the prevailing power structure.

To have more equanimity in the whole world, you need a few essential components currently inaccessible:
1- Explore other planets for resources and living space - only a dream so far
2- Level the playing field for everyone who wants to be educated and to contribute to progress in science and technology on this planet to be able to do so unimpeded.
3- Empower local communities to rule themselves and find solutions to their own problems without the constant intervention by central/federal government. We came close in this country to that but no I don't see it happening with most of the libertarians stuck up the mainstream authoritarian republican party's buttocks.
4- Empower the individual, by freeing everyone of fear, demoralization, imposed (made-up) adversity, restriction of movement, disease, intolerance toward minorities... I don't see that happening either in the current power structure worldwide.
5- And finally put organized religion in its place, the best method of emotional support and relief for those who need it; instead of its current central place where it dominates people's minds and often leads to conflict and mass murder triggered by which which book your parents read for you as a kid. I don't see that happening either since organized religion has a power structure no different from the political power structure of governments. The holders of this structure are not about to give it up any time soon.

I hope I did not bore you will all this theoretical talk. I just can't help seeing the world the way it ought to be as opposed to the way it is now.

Remember, non-violence and pacifism, do not mean that you should let others walk all over you. These concepts only mean that you walk away from predators and instigators. Non-violence and pacifism don't mean that you can't defend yourself. They only means that you defend yourself in non-violent ways including sabotage, upstaging, superior intellectual achievement and similar methods.

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