Human breast milk is more than a meal — it’s also a clock, providing time-of-day information to infants and moms alike. 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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