Robert Lustig: Obesity Before Birth. How Nutrition, Stress, and Chemicals Shape Lifelong Weight Gain
12 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A recorded talk by Robert Lustig arguing that prenatal factors — maternal nutrition, stress, and environmental chemicals — influence lifelong weight gain via mechanisms such as developmental programming and epigenetic changes (e.g., DNA methylation). He emphasizes that critical developmental periods, including in utero exposure, are often omitted from standard obesity models and cites his editorial work on the topic.










