JUST HOW DOES COLOSTRUM WORK? Colostrum is highly beneficial in the unique manner in which it provides the body with its numerous immune factors. Most infectious disease-causing organisms enter the body through the mucous membranes of the intestinal tract.. In order to remain healthy, it is critical that we are able to combat disease-causing organisms: bacteria, viruses, pollutants, contaminants and allergens where they attack us. Clinical research by Dr. David Tyrel , in England, in 1980, revealed that a high percentage of the antibodies and immunoglobulins present in colostrum are believed not to be absorbed but remain in the intestinal tract where they attack disease causing organisms before they penetrate the body and cause disease. The remainder are believed to be absorbed and distributed to assist in our internal defense processes. It is this combination of action that is believed to make colostrum so unique and effective as an oral supplement.

WHY BOVINE COLOSTRUM ? Medical research has reported that the most important immune and growth factors in bovine colostrum are not specific only to the cow and can be utilized by humans and other animals. Even more important are reports that colostrum from cows is four times richer in immune factors than human colostrum. And in important research in 1975, doctors discovered that cows colostrum contains special glycoproteins that are extremely effective at protecting the immune and growth factors in colostrum from destruction by adult human digestive enzymes (results that were later supported by human clinical trials). As one prestigious research institute stated: "Bovine colostrum offers tremendous possibilities for providing unparalleled support for the immune system that may be the deciding factor in the bodies war against illness".

HISTORY OF COLOSTRUM In  India, for thousands of years, Ayurvedic physicians and the Rishis have documented the physical and spiritual health benefits from colostrum. They drop colostrum in boiling water to make a candy that is popular, especially with the children. Scandinavian countries have been making a delicious colostrum pudding and dessert topped with honey, for hundreds of years, to celebrate the birth of calves and good health. In the late 18th Century, Western scientists began to study colostrum and document its benefits for survival, growth and development for the newborn. Today, there are 100's of published scientific and clinical studies of major health benefits associated with colostrum.

CONCLUSION : Based on hundreds of medical research reports and scientific studies on colostrum, presented by doctors and scientists from major research centers and hospitals around the world, the presence of such a wide spectrum of immunoglobulins , antibodies and accessory immune factors offer tremendous possibilities in the prevention and recovery of illness. Studies supporting normal cell growth, tissue repair and trauma healing provide unique new possibilities for rejuvenation and give those of us that are growing older real hope that there may be a fountain of youth after all.