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Does the Mother’s Diet Affect Her Offspring?

Can what a mother eats affect her baby? Claudia Buss of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of California, Irvine and her colleagues conducted a longitudinal study of mothers and their newborn babies, and discovered that increased production of the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) in mothers can lead to alterations in the brain connectivity of her offspring.

Buss and…