Peter Attia· MD
there's some research to suggest on horses it's actually they think it may have to do with the cerebellum because when you continually have to find and refine your balance it influences the cerebellum which helps brain integration and one of the things that's happening with autism is a lack of brain integration because overgrowth of white matter you probably know all this about autism lack of adequate pruning it's hard to get cross-brain communication in autistic kids which is one of the reasons you get kind of hyper specialization and fixations there's a really good scientific reason to think why things like being on a horse finding the refinding and the balance would help cross-brain communication which might allow for things like language