What the Suramin Story Reveals About Autism

There’s a drug called Suramin that’s been around for over 100 years.

It was originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness—a parasitic disease—and works so well that the World Health Organization still supplies it for free in some parts of Africa.

But in the U.S., Suramin isn’t FDA-approved.

It’s not available. It’s nearly impossible to get.

And the reason why is disturbing.

In 2018, a doctor named Robert Naviaux ran a small, groundbreaking study.

He gave a single low dose of Suramin to five boys with autism.

The results?

Within hours to days:

• Eye contact improved

• Language returned

• Social connection came back

One child spoke his first full sentence in his life.

Now here’s the catch:

Suramin can’t be patented. No one owns it and no one profits from it.

So no one funded the study.

Dr. Naviaux went $500,000 into debt to run it himself.

And once the results were published, they were quietly buried.

Because the implications are massive.

This wasn’t some fringe theory.

It was a placebo-controlled, double-blind study published in a peer-reviewed journal (PMC5497533).

What it suggested was simple—and threatening to the status quo:

Autism is not purely genetic—it’s environmental.

It’s driven by toxic overload and metabolic dysfunction.

If one dose of an old, unprofitable drug can temporarily reverse symptoms, it opens up a bigger question:

What else are we ignoring because it isn’t profitable?

We’ve been told for decades that autism is a mystery. That it’s in our DNA. That there’s nothing to be done.

But that narrative is crumbling. And stories like this are why.

The rise in autism is not a genetic coincidence.

It’s a consequence of our environment.

And healing begins when we acknowledge that.

Until next time,

Kashif Khan

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