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Mother s diet while breastfeeding can shape the profile of human milk oligosaccharides
Research has shown that human milk is the optimal nutrition source for neonates and infants. It confers protection against both immediately life-threatening infant diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis, as well as later onset diseases in adults, like obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Scientific evidence suggests that what a mother eats while she is breastfeeding can modulate the beneficial composition of the mother s milk, but the underlying mechanisms involved have not been elucidated.
In a new study published in
Nature Scientific Reports, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital and other institutions describe a natural mechanism that can modify the benefits of maternal milk. They report the first evidence that the mother s diet while breastfeeding can shape the profile of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO), a type of complex carbohydrate in t
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Research has shown that human milk is the optimal nutrition source for neonates and infants. It confers protection against both immediately life-threatening infant diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis, as well as later onset diseases in adults, like obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Scientific evidence suggests that what a mother eats while she is breastfeeding can modulate the beneficial composition of the mother s milk, but the underlying mechanisms involved have not been elucidated.
In a new study published in
Nature Scientific Reports, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital and other institutions describe a natural mechanism that can modify the benefits of maternal milk. They report the first evidence that the mother s diet while breastfeeding can shape the profile of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO), a type of complex carbohydrate in the mother s milk. Changing the HMOs, which are food and fodder for healthy mi