It contains essential nutrients, trypsin, and protease inhibitors that protect it from destruction in the GI tract as well as numerous immune system and growth factors. Colostrum is estimated to trigger at least 50 processes in the newborn.

Cow (bovine) colostrum is biologically transferable to humans and all mammals, it is much higher in immune factors than human mother’s colostrum. All species including humans benefit from bovine colostrum with no reports of allergic or anaphylactic reactions to date, according to several studies.

Over the past two decades more than 2003 research papers have been published that are supportive of both colostrum and its numerous components. Dr. Daniel G. Clark’s basic message that is printed on the back cover of his book Colostrum, Life’s First Food he states:

“bovine colostrum rebuilds the immune system, destroys viruses, bacteria, and fungi, accelerates healing of all body tissue, helps lose weight, burn fat, increase bone and lean muscle mass and slows down and even reverses aging.”

Bovine colostrum has been used therapeutically by the Ayurvedic physicians for thousands of years in India. The essential components of colostrum can be broken down to two categories: growth factors and immune system factors.

Growth Factors:

• Growth hormone (GH)
• Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)
• Insulin-like growth factor-I and II (IGF-1 and IGF-II)
• Transforming growth factors A & B (TgA and B)
• Epithelial growth factor (EgF)
• Fibroblast growth factor (FgF)

Immune system factors:

The most abundant of the immune factors called immunoglobulins, that are found in colostrum, neutralizes microbes and toxins in the lymph and circulatory system and destroys bacteria.
Lactoferrin – anti-bacterial, an antiviral, anti-inflammatory, iron-binding protein with therapeutic effects in HIV, cancer, Cytomegalovirus, Chronic fatigue syndrome, herpes, Candida albicans, and other infections. Lactoferrin helps deprive bacteria of the iron they require to reproduce and releases iron into the red blood cells therefore enhancing oxygenation of tissues.
Proline-Rich Polypeptide (PRP) – a hormone that regulates the thymus gland, down regulating an overactive immune system, stimulating an under active immune system or as seen in autoimmune disease (MS, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, scleroderma, allergies, etc.)