The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Period for Development​

Optimal health development starts at the very beginning of life, with the first 1,000 days—spanning from conception to a child’s second birthday—playing a pivotal role in shaping future wellbeing. During this critical window, remarkable physiological transformations occur, energy requirements escalate, and essential systems like immunity and neurodevelopment rapidly mature. As a result, the nutritional needs of infants, toddlers, and children constantly evolve throughout their early years.​

Optimal health development starts at the very beginning of life, with the first 1,000 days—spanning from conception to a child’s second birthday—playing a pivotal role in shaping future wellbeing. During this critical window, remarkable physiological transformations occur, energy requirements escalate, and essential systems like immunity and neurodevelopment rapidly mature. As a result, the nutritional needs of infants, toddlers, and children constantly evolve throughout their early years.​

Building Blocks for Health​

While human milk naturally provides optimal nutrition for infants during their initial months, it is a highly complex food containing unique macro and micronutrients. ​​

IFF Health Sciences offers a diverse portfolio of ingredients that support optimized growth and development. Our commitment extends beyond specialized lipids to probiotics and fibers, ensuring that every child has access to essential building blocks for thriving health.​

IFF HEALTH SCIENCES’ EARLY LIFE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS

IFF Health Sciences offers a diverse portfolio of ingredients—safe and suitable for infant formula, supplements, and foods—that support optimized growth and development from early infancy through childhood.​

HOW CAN WE HELP?​

We’d love to talk to you about how our microbiome and bioscience expertise can help you develop, manufacture and deliver solutions that enable people at all life stages to live healthier and happier lives. ​

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