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# Autism Professor Needs Help
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/autism_professor_needs_help_2605100636/
- Published: 2010-05-26T07:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:52:16.000Z
- Description: An appeal for research volunteers: Professor Gene Stubbs of the University of Oregon is recruiting pregnant women who already have a child with autism to take 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day, and says families can now take part without travelling to the university.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Letter to Editor, Opinion, #vivvo-import

**5/26/10**  

**Autism Professor Needs Help**

Professor Gene Stubbs of the University of Oregon needs help with his study about vitamin D and autism. He is testing the theory that a mother with one child with autism will not have another if the mother takes vitamin D during her pregnancy. Women no longer need to come to the University of Oregon but can participate at a distance. Professor Stubbs writes:

"Can anyone assist us in recruiting mothers who already have children with autism and the mother is pregnant again before her third trimester? We are giving the mothers 5000 IU D3/day. So far every mother who has delivered has delivered within 1 week or on the date of expected delivery, and the babies are well within normal birth weights. They have not progressed far enough in age for us to screen for autism, but so far, the babies are interactive, have eye contact, are vocal etc..

However, we need more research families to participate. We have recruited other doctors to help us recruit and we have recruited doctors on the Vitamin D Council sites to help us recruit. We still need more families to participate to make our results significant. The families no longer have to come to our site to participate. If you know of any families who potentially might be eligible for our research, please give them my research assistant's phone number, 503-351-9255."

Thank you,

John Cannell, MD

[The Vitamin D Council](http://list.netatlantic.com/t/52176028/77828680/104386/0/?ref=foodconsumer.org)

1241 Johnson Ave., #134

San Luis Obispo, CA 93401