DATE: October 14, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS NEUROSCIENCE
TITLE: Opinion: We think a baby’s gut microbiome could be key to lifelong brain health
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/14/gut-microbiome-baby-brain-health-research/?utm_campaign=rss
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.
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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/14/gut-microbiome-baby-brain-health-research/?utm_campaign=rss
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