Previous research has suggested that human genes associated with obesity determine whether a person will have a hard time maintaining a healthy weight later in life. MedTwitter
What if a baby's developing brain at the critical time just before birth and in the early days after establish the lifetime risk forPrevious research has suggested that human genes associated with obesity determine whether a person will have a hard time maintaining a healthy weight later in life.
They studied mice in the first few weeks of life and found that the arcuate nucleus undergoes extensive growth in a critical window of time when brains are particularly sensitive to programming, which will later determine how well the body senses whether it is hungry and when the body has enough food.
Waterland says that even though the work did not address when the epigenetic changes happen in humans, previous research has shown it happens earlier in humans than in mice."My hunch is that the same epigenetic development that we have documented in the early postnatal mouse actually occurs during late fetal development in humans."
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