date:Sep 22, 2012
oduction of the hormone cortisol which is implicated in stress and regulates metabolism.
The suggestion is that higher levels of choline in a mother's diet led to a more stable genetic HPA axis and consequently less cortisol in the fetus, say the authors noting previous research that has shown early exposure to high levels of cortisol can increase a baby's lifelong risk of stress-related and metabolic disorders.