The widespread compound may cause permanent disruptions to the gut microbiome, increasing our risk of various disorders later in life.
Early-life exposure to common chemicals in our environment might permanently damage our gut health, research suggests, contributing to the development of diabetes and obesity later in life.Scientists have hypothesized that exposure to these 'forever chemicals' during childhood may be contributing the recent rise in these disorders among American adults.
'We found that early-life exposure to TCDF permanently disrupted the gut microbiomes of the wild-type mice,' Yuan Tian, the study's first author and associate research professor at Penn State, said in a statement. 'We also found that these mice had higher body weight and glucose intolerance at age four months.'Patterson added that certain strains of bacteria were more sensitive to the effects of TCDF than others, although more work was needed to understand why.
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