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...higher in patients with prior NTD's and when they have to take certain meds that impact folic acid).

2) Higher dose FA has been seen in association with increased risk of....you guessed it...autism among other things..
3) Low Folic acid levels have been linked in some studies with autism.

(I linked a basic review from the CDC....it shows that there might be a link, but there is a hodge podge of findings in different studies which had varying degrees of different controls and different FA doses used.

Also, there are other metabolic deficiencies with processing the folic acid unrelated to simply taking folic acid - though these are less common.

And here is the big take away for me:
I have been reading studies and watching medical debates like this long enough to know that when you get good data that conflicts with other good data, there are inevitably either other "as of yet unknown variables" (such as the discovery of H Pylorii as a major cause of stomach ulcers which we did not even know about as we went back and forth on treatment options and similar study debates),
OR
The disease itself is actually more than one entity....in this case, I suspect multiple.

So, no, I very much doubt that there is a major breakthrough on autism. But, I sure hope that I am wrong and that Kennedy earns my trust which he does not have at present.


Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8394938/