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relates Breastfeeding with the sleep cycles of Babies

Experts from the University of Extremadura highlight the benefits of breast milk and its relation to sleep cycles among infants


Researchers from the Department of Physiology, University of Extremadura post show the relationship between milk breastfed babies eat and sleep cycles and the need to include a different dose of tritópfano in milk produced artificially.

According to scientists at the UEX, the milk that comes from the stem contains high levels of the substance that helps to consolidate the sleep / wake in newborn born. Its findings come

after developing a study on breast milk samples of urine from the children, who demonstrate the important role of the Horadada tritópfano babies maintain a stable cycle of sleep and activity.

For Javier Cubero, one of the experts the department, the results reveals the work should be taken into account by the milk companies, and currently, these products contain levels tritopfáno constant. The optimum would have milk at night with a high content of this substance, and day with a low amount of this amino acid. "No doubt these milks belong to a new generation based on cronutrición that artificial feeding nearer to that of the mother, "experts say.

The tritópfano is in turn related to melatonin, a hormone in our body has changes in daily discharge , with peak levels during the dark periods and minima in the light.

The findings have been demonstrated in pigeons under a year old, which were given tritópfano. It was observed that these birds the substance contributed to the consolidation of nocturnal sleep in the early stages of life, reports the UEx.

Source: EFE

Relationship between diet and sleep of newborns
has also recently conducted a research on the relationship between diet and sleep patterns in infants (Yogman, N. and Zeisel, S.). A group of twenty children aged between two and three days old, were randomly divided into two. One group received a diet consisting of tryptophan dissolved in 10% glucose and one valine dissolved in 5% glucose. After Comparisons between infant sleep the two groups, it was observed that the tryptophan-fed group was entering a period of active sleep and 14 minutes before a quiet sleep period 20 minutes before that babies who receive a normal diet. The group that received the valine to sleep later, entered the period of active sleep later and 15.8 minutes in the period of quiet sleep 39 minutes later than babies of normal diet.

This study complements the new and surprising discovery was made at the University of Extremadura linking milk with this amino acid and the regulation of sleep cycles in infants.


So a very natural and healthy to help establish sleep patterns, your little one is feeding with breastfeeding.

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