COLOSTRUM contains 25 percent immunoglobulins (high-level IgG) and is rich in immune-protecting factors.
Dr. Lance Wright, M.D., a leading researcher on colostrum, talks about its benefits:
“The immune factors and co-factors in colostrum activate a baby’s immune system and they can bring more normal function back to a dysfunctional adult immune system.”
“Colostrum is also known to induce more rapid healing of injured tissue.”
“The benefits with auto-immune diseases and viruses are some of the most profound because we really have no other way to effectively treat these conditions. Studies show that colostrum will reduce the virus levels in the body from 100 to 1000-fold.”
“Colostrum also has some very significant effects with allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, compromised digestive tract, decreased mental alertness, depression, osteoporosis and yeast infections. That’s just a few of the many conditions that are helped. Because colostrum is a food and because it is so safe, it probably should be tried on almost all illnesses that we suffer from.”
Lance Wright explains the major reason why colostrum may be good for us:
“In 1983, Polish researchers discovered a small protein chain called Proline-Rich Polypeptide (PRP) in colostrum. This immune factor was found to have the same ability to regulate the immune system as the hormones of the thymus gland do.
PRP is able to stimulate T-cell precursors to form T helper-1 cells, thereby promoting the immune system into action against pathogens. More impressive, however, in relation to auto-immune disease, is PRP’s ability to ‘turn off’ the immune response. It does this by telling the T-cell precursors to produce T-cell suppressor cells. These are the cells that slow down an overactive immune system, thereby stopping the attack on the body’s own tissue.
Further studies showed that PRP was not species specific, meaning that PRP in bovine colostrum could be used very effectively to combat a multitude of human auto-immune diseases.”
[Source: HEALTHandFITNESS.com®]
