The first 1,000 days after conception strongly influence a person's life expectancy and disease susceptibility, research shows. The primary marker used to identify early life stress is low birth weight. But low birth weight is a marker only until birth -- far short of a measurement useful for the first thousand days. New research suggests that an asymmetric lower face is a novel marker that captures early life stresses that occur after birth.
The first 1,000 days after conception strongly influence a person's life expectancy and disease susceptibility, research shows. The primary marker used to identify early life stress is low birth weight. But low birth weight is a marker only until birth -- far short of a measurement useful for the first thousand days. New research suggests that an asymmetric lower face is a novel marker that captures early life stresses that occur after birth.
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