“EARLY LIFE environmental influences have a profound impact on the organism’s later development, structure, and function. This phenomenon is called “developmental programming”…exerts effects that impact on structure and function of organs that, in some cases, will persist throughout life. One such environmental factor is the gut microbiota that, because of an evolutionary process, has adapted to coexist in commensal or symbiotic relationship with mammals.”
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