Breastfeeding: How the components of breast milk help develop the circadian rhythms of a baby

Toni Harman
6 min readSep 29, 2022

Quick Summary: Breastfeeding info for parents. New review paper from Mexico on how the complex nutritive and non-nutritive components of breast milk change over the day/night to help a baby develop its own circadian clock. The paper includes a great description of the difference between these components in human milk vs infant formula.

Breastfeeding and parent info: In breast milk, the concentration of both nutritive and non-nutritive milk components change over the day and night according to the circadian rhythms of the mother.
Breastfeeding: How the components of breast milk help develop the circadian rhythms of a baby. Caba-Flores Md Et al. Front Nutr. (2022) http://microbiomecourses.com

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Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. https://linktr.ee/toniharman