zarrin77
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There are probably hundreds of publications talking about this supposed deficiency, and how mothers or infants need to be supplemented with DHA to prevent it. Most preterm infants are characterized as deficient since the small amount that is present in a newborn's brain is only incorporated into the brain during the end of the last trimester. It's a well known fact that, at birth, DHA concentration is very low, or deficient if you want, and then rapidly accrues during the first two years of life.
DHA Effects in Brain Development and Function
My question was: Please provide a source that babies are born “deficient in EPA / DHA”.
The source you gave says: “Its [DHA] accumulation in the fetal brain takes place mainly during the last trimester of pregnancy”.
Thus, babies are not born “deficient in DHA”.
And if you look at the plethora of data out there in both rodents and humans, having little to no omega 3 in the diet impairs fetal brain development, it never promotes it.