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

  • Written by Darby Saxbe, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Is a bottle of morning milk at night the equivalent of turning on all the lights at bedtime?comzeal images/Shutterstock.com

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...

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