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Infants younger than 4 weeks are called "newborns" (1).
The first 1,000 days of life are a critical period for a child's rapid growth and development. During this time, it is estimated that over 1 million new neural connections are formed per second (2, 3).
The strong diet-microbe association has further been supported by reports of differences in microbial composition between breast- and formula-fed infants (e.g. high versus low Bifidobacterium / Bifidobacter abundance) and related differential health outcomes between the two groups: e.g. increased instances of [asthma](brain://yE20dWWIDkGEFA…