Nutritional deficiencies and states of toxicity within the body are being ignored by modern genetics-focused medicine despite irrefutable evidence of the prominent role they play in contemporary illnesses according to a prominent environmental medicine scientist.   In a paper published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Stephen J. Genuis of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada, provides a timely reminder to the medical profession and individual physicians that throughout the history of medicine it has been proven time and again that the main causes of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxic exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction.

Genuis points out that the current medical paradigm largely ignores the role lack of vital nutrients and toxic exposures (and body toxicity states) play in modern ill-health while focusing an inordinate amount of resources on genetic predisposition and often presumed psychological dysfunction. The point that Genuis makes will be welcome news to the ears of those suffering from environmental and invisible illnesses including myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), Gulf War illness (GWI), and gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and food intolerances and sensitivities. 

New research has found that a little known genus of bacteria named Sutterella may play a significant role in the symptomology of cases of autism that also involve digestive disturbances.   Gastrointestinal disturbances are commonly reported in children with autism and may be associated with changes in the composition of the intestinal bacteria. The role of the gut microbiota is increasingly being recognised by scientists as playing an important role in health and disease.

Researchers from the Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, had proposed that unusual composition of intestinal bacteria was associated with autism with gastrointestinal involvement (AUT-GI). They had previously demonstrated that  some AUT-GI children were carrying bacteria from the family Alcaligenaceae in their guts, while the same was not the case for children in a control group who had gastrointestinal complaints but not autism (Control-GI).

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