Cytokines, Infections, Stress, and Dysphoric Moods in Breastfeeders and Formula feeders

The data suggest that breastfeeding confers some psychoneuroimmunological benefit to mothers, perhaps through prolactin or hypothalamic‐hypophyseal‐adrenocortical axis stress refractoriness. JOGNN, 35, 599‐607; 2006. DOI: 10.1111/J.1552‐6909.2006.00083.x