Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Reduce Risk of ADHD or Autism

21 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD answers a parent's question about lowering a child's risk of ADHD or autism, especially in hypermobile or neurodivergent children. He summarizes a recent article linking parental chemical exposure and mast cell activation (from chemicals, mold, biotoxins) to increased risk of ADHD/autism in offspring. He recommends reducing exposures and pursuing detoxification for both parent and child, including removing petroleum products and mold and keeping the environment clean.

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What can I do to decrease the risk for ADHD or autism in my kid who's hypermobile and kind of on the spectrum? I actually had a parent ask me this question this past week. I actually didn't have the best answer for them until I came across this article literally this morning. And this article actually talks about direct relationship with chemical exposure, mast cell activation in a parent and their kid's risk for developing adhd, autism and these other kind of neurodivergent issues. The context is this mast cell activation syndrome, which is your immune system getting over activated by chemicals, mold, biotoxins, things in the environment and a parent can actually increase the risk for their child in the future having these issues. So what do you do? The first thing is you work on detoxification. You personally keep your environment clean and then for your kid you do the exact same. You try to keep the environment clean, remove petroleum products, mold, and then you work on detoxification yourself and your child. But this article is a game changer on how I address these issues.