... that this particular virus could become part of us like the other 8%, maybe, or?

Uh, th- uh, nature has built into our genome, um, our genes, this mechanism for, um, uh, we c- reverse transcription.

Um, and we see that, uh, very dramatically when, when we look at the, the overall composition of our genome, our DNA, where vast amounts of it don't code for proteins or active genes as we think of them.

But, uh, they are, for example, retrotransposons.

That is, whole segments, large majority of our DNA, uh, is actually composed of things like, uh, there's one called line one, for example, um, that some people call junk DNA.

Um, but in, in any case, the line one mechanism, uh, makes available these enzymes that can take RNA and convert it into DNA and incorporate that into our, our genomes.

And, uh, it's been demonstrated to, to occur for spike protein in particular.

Yeah

So are we taking some of the autism science and applying it into the long COVID science?

Exactly that, Hayley.

And I've often thought of this as a gift from autism, from the child.

It gives a gift to the adults and or the rest of the world as long as we learn from it.

If we don't learn from autism, then that's something, a loss on our part.

And of course, we want to solve the question of where does autism come from in general, but there's a particular importance here.

here on a particular relevance, as you said, to COVID and other fatiguing illnesses.

And why, I know that there's not one cause, but do you think there are contributing factors in our environment? I mean, you know me and food, in our food, in our neurotoxic exposure, what's going on?