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Opinion: We think a baby’s gut microbiome could be key to lifelong brain health

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Opinion: We think a baby’s gut microbiome could be key to lifelong brain health
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Picture a baby sleeping in a crib.  



Every second, her brain is forming more than a million new neural connections. The scaffolding for language, memory, attention, and thought is going up in real time, wire by wire. We don’t yet know who she will become; yet much of her future self depends on what reaches her now, in the earliest months of her life.Read the rest…

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