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How a baby's early experiences can shape their health later in life

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Researchers are learning more about how relationships with caregivers and sound nutrition can impact a child's immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems as they get older. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images)
Researchers are learning more about how relationships with caregivers and sound nutrition can impact a child's immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems as they get older. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images)

Pediatricians have long known that early experiences like responsive, nurturing relationships with caregivers and sound nutrition are important for a child's brain development. Now, researchers are learning more about how these early influences can impact a child's immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems as they get older.

Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes talks with Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

This segment aired on May 23, 2023.

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