Your mother gave you your circadian rhythm

Newborn vs adult rhythms, the circadian programming of disease, and hope for a brighter future for all ages.

Did you know your circadian rhythm is first set by your mother? If your mother and grandmother lived in a healthy light environment, great!

If they had a poor light environment, and if you haven't done the work to reset your rhythm, chances are, you may be carrying those unhealthy patterns today.

We are learning more and more about health is shared in family lineages. For example, the egg that eventually became YOU was created inside your mother while she was still in the womb.

Early life (from conception through 2 or 3 years), is when our circadian patterns are first set¹.

At birth, we don't have the ability to synthesize significant amounts of the circadian hormone melatonin on our own. Instead, babies get melatonin from breastmilk—particularly from nighttime feeds because melatonin content in breastmilk peaks in the wee hours of the night². They also get melatonin’s daytime counterpart, cortisol…