Autism Biology | The Blood Work I Wish I Had Checked First

Biohacking Autism with Nadia Elkhatib. · Aug 10, 2026 · 36m

Autism blood work rarely comes first. In this solo episode Nadia Elkhatib

explains why she now starts with baseline biology before choosing the next

specialty treatment for her son Jimmy.

For twenty years she worked on Lyme, mold, gut, mast cells and detoxification,

and that work helped. What she skipped was the foundation underneath it:

thyroid function, sex hormones, insulin and metabolic health, the lipid panel,

and nervous system regulation.

Nadia walks through the difference between a laboratory reference range and

the working targets her practitioners use, how a specialist's lens shapes…