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(NewsNation) — Fitness guru Jillian Michaels says she supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s propulsion to find the origin of autism.
"Autism is connected the rise, that's not debatable," Michaels told NewsNation's Connell McShane connected Monday. "To privation to get to the bottommost of what's going connected is thing we should welcome."
Kennedy, the nation’s wellness secretary, precocious promised a "massive investigating and probe effort" to find the origin of the "autism epidemic" by September.
Some health experts spot that timeline arsenic unrealistic, but Michaels says the timing is little important than the probe itself.
"What's the worst happening if it is unrealistic? What happens if it's six months later?" Michaels said.
Michaels, who hosts the "Keeping it Real" podcast, said the much important interest is not having conditions similar autism decently researched "to get to the bottommost of what is going on."
Kennedy hasn't offered galore details connected however his survey volition disagree from what researchers person been doing. The National Institutes of Health spends astir $300 cardinal a year researching autism.
No azygous origin of autism has been determined, but some familial and biology factors are believed to play a important role, according to the CDC. Scientists person not recovered a nexus betwixt puerility vaccines and autism, contempt what Kennedy has said.
Researchers person attributed overmuch of the emergence successful autism diagnoses to much wide screening and changes successful however the developmental disablement is diagnosed.
