
Early Life Exposure to Food Contaminants and Social Stress as Risk ...
2. Early Origins of Metabolic Disorders. In mice and humans, early life is important for the development of the immune system, metabolic switch, microbiota colonization [], and the development of life-long beneficial host-microbe homeostasis [].The first study linking early life adverse events and MD is based on the data from the Dutch famine (1944–1945).