Tuesday 13 August 2019

Human breast milk may help babies tell time via circadian signals from mom

Human breast milk may help babies tell time via circadian signals from mom

Human breast milk is more than a meal – it’s also a clock, providing time-of-day information to infants. The composition of breast milk changes across the day, giving energizing morning milk a different cocktail of ingredients than soothing evening milk. Researchers believe this “chrononutrition” may help program infants’ emerging circadian biology, the internal timekeeper that allows babies to distinguish day from night.

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