Immune Support Supplements
What is Colostrum?
Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid produced from the mother's
mammary glands during the first 72 hours after birth. It
provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure
the health and vitality of the newborn.
Why do we need Colostrum?
As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a
cold or flu, we become more vulnerable to disease, our energy
and enthusiasm lessen, our skin loses its elasticity, we gain
unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. After maturity, we
gradually lose the immune and growth factors in our body. This
impacts us to search for anti-aging and health products and
knowledge. We've looked to plants and minerals for an answer,
isolating and mega-dosing on vitamins and minerals. Aging,
illness and death occur with the loss of immune and growth
factors in our bodies. Medical science has shown in many
published reports worldwide that these can possibly be replaced
in the human body....with bovine colostrum.
Bovine colostrum is not new. In India, for thousands of
years, Ayurvedic physicians and the spiritual leaders have
documented the physical and spiritual health benefits from
colostrum. It is dried and delivered by the milkman and is known
for its healing and therapeutic ability. 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. It was used in the US as an early
antibiotic that was in much favor until the discovery of
penicillin and other antibiotics.
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 thousands of
published scientific and clinical studies of major health
benefits associated with colostrum.
What is Lactoferrin?
Lactoferrin helps increase natural iron bio-availability, is a
powerful antioxidant, and helps support a healthy immune system.
* Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein found in human
secretions like tears, saliva, milk and mucous
* Helps enhance iron transport and absorption
* Helps promote a healthy balance of natural intestinal flora
* Helps increase bioavailability and absorption of nutrients in
the body and helps decrease the bioavailability of iron to
pathogens
* May have anti-aging properties by helping prevent the
formation of free radicals that trigger oxidation
* Helps contribute to host defense against pathogens by
protecting lymphocytes against free iron
What are plant sterols?
Plant sterols are extracts of certain plants that, when
ingested, inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the small
intestine. Thus, dietary cholesterol never gets into the system.
Plant sterols are present naturally in small quantities in many
fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, cereals, legumes, vegetable
oils, and other plant sources. Plant stanols occur in even
smaller quantities in many of the same sources. Both stanols and
sterols are essential components of plant cell membranes and
structurally resemble cholesterol. Foods supplemented with plant
sterols may reduce cholesterol and are a promising addition to
interventions aimed at lowering heart disease risk.