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Maternal environmental insults such as diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption during critical periods of life, as gestation, may affect the ECS in the hypothalamus-adipose axis of the mother and the progeny. The ECS disruption during early life can program metabolism in a short- and long-term way increasing the risk to develop metabolic syndrome and behavioral changes throughout life.
