{"id":167579,"date":"2023-07-14T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/sugar-molecule-found-in-breast-milk-boosts-infant-brain-development"},"modified":"2023-07-14T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:23:00","slug":"sugar-molecule-found-in-breast-milk-boosts-infant-brain-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/sugar-molecule-found-in-breast-milk-boosts-infant-brain-development","title":{"rendered":"Sugar molecule found in breast milk boosts infant brain development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sugar-molecule-found-in-breast-milk-boosts-infant-brain-development.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breast milk is not simply sustenance. It also is rich in micronutrients that are critical for healthy brain development in infants.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have identified a component of breast milk that promotes how neurons form connections in infants\u2019 brains. Myo-inositol is a small cyclic <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sugar+molecule\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sugar molecule<\/a> in breast milk that also is found in a typical adult diet, including in fruits and grains. The study emphasizes the powerful role that what we eat plays in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain function<\/a>. It was published in <i>PNAS<\/i> on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effects of micronutrients on the brain are really under-appreciated,\u201d says Thomas Biederer, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology and principal investigator. \u201cAs a neuroscientist, our findings were stunning to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast milk is not simply sustenance. It also is rich in micronutrients that are critical for healthy brain development in infants. Now, researchers have identified a component of breast milk that promotes how neurons form connections in infants\u2019 brains. Myo-inositol is a small cyclic sugar molecule in breast milk that also is found in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}