Impact of Key Nutrients on Brain and Executive Function Development in Infants and Toddlers: A Narrative Review

Executive function skills are an essential aspect of cognition and influenced in early life by multiple factors. One the significant factors that influence brain development is nutrition, which plays a specific role brain’s developmental processes functioning from fetal to adult age. Infants their rely on breastmilk for nutrition. Knowledge composition breast milk biochemical has led identification critical nutrients needed growth, development, functioning. Key those that, when deficient during precise, sensitive periods could have long-term adverse effects This narrative review highlights importance some key executive functions, including cognitive performances infants toddlers. Lipids crucial development. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) sphingomyelin ingredients performance potentially. Early precursors toddlers foundation functions outcomes childhood or adulthood. Evidence suggests such as phospholipids, LC-PUFAs (docosahexaenoic acid), developing higher-level functions.