Research has long established that the first 1,000 days after conception (about 280 days until birth and then up to 24 months of age) significantly influence a person’s overall life expectancy and risk for chronic diseases.
In general, low birth weight has been the primary indicator of early life stress, but this can only measure stress or maternal nutrition up until birth and still falls quite short of a measurement useful for the first 1,000 days.
[For more of this story, written by Traci Pedersen, go to https://psychcentral.com/news/...e-stress/119120.html]
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