COLOSTRUM is the non-milk fluid produced by female mammary glands during the first seventy-two hours after birth. Colostrum provides nutrients that support a new born infant’s immune system response which has yet to develop.
After years of extensive research colostrums has shown to provide a multitude of health restorative benefits to adults as well as in supplemental form. Researchers have found that colostrum contains a wide range of growth factors that put the body in a defensive state to assist the body in its efforts to maintain health.
Dr. Lance S. Wright, MD, a founding member of the Association of Holistic Health, as associate professor of child psychiatry at Hahneman University in Philadelphia, (PA) and a professor of integrative medicine at Capital University of Integrative Medicine in Washington DC, states that the growth factors found in colostrums have a more profound effect in promoting health more than any disease fighting drug in existence.
According to Dr. Wright, not only does colostrums protect the body and rid it of disease, the growth factors initiate repair and can reverse the damage to body systems encountered during states of distress. It is important to remember that in most cases of illness, toxic elements leave some part of the body at the cellular or physical level in a weakened state.
The growth factors known to occur in colostrum are the:
1. Epithelial Growth Factor (EgF)
2. Insulin-like Growth Factor I and II (IGF-1 and IGF-II)
3. Fibroblast Growth Factor (FgF)
4. Platelet-Derived Growth Factors (PDGF)
5. Transforming Growth Factors A + B (TgF A + B)
6. Growth Hormone (GH)
All of these growth factors have shown the ability to promote cellular and tissue growth.
Data has conclusively revealed that colostrums mode of action is a result of its ability to initiate the replication of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, the genetic material of the cell (your body’s physiological blueprint) that determines the health and survival of every cell in body.
