| une-boosting property of colostrum stems from | | | | symptoms of those suffering from cryptosporidiosis." |
| molecules called transfer factors, which were first | | | | By boosting your immune system, colostrum also |
| discovered in 1949 by Sherwood Lawrence. While | | | | proves an effective anti-cancer treatment. As you |
| treating tuberculosis patients, Lawrence noticed that | | | | may already know, cancer is related to immune |
| immune response factors could be transferred from | | | | deficiency. Cancer cells develop in our bodies all the |
| blood donor to recipient, hence the term "transfer | | | | time, but our immune systems effectively kill the |
| factors." According to Burton Goldberg in Alternative | | | | cancer cells before they further develop and |
| Medicine, transfer factors "can 'educate' or modulate | | | | symptomatically appear as the disease we know as |
| a recipient's immune system, teaching it to recognize | | | | "cancer." The development of cancer indicates that |
| these specific antigens and communicating the | | | | the immune system was ineffective in fighting the |
| knowledge that they are present." | | | | malignant cells that appeared; these cells took |
| Of course, HIV and hepatitis concerns make modern | | | | advantage of a weakened state, grew, and spread |
| blood transfer a risky method of boosting recipients' | | | | out of control. |
| immune systems with transfer agents. In 1999, fifty | | | | Boosting your immune system builds your body's |
| years after Lawrence's discovery, researchers | | | | defenses against naturally occurring cancer cells, |
| discussed the potential role of transfer factors in | | | | thereby preventing a full-blown progression of the |
| modern medicine at the Eleventh International | | | | disease. If you already have cancer, colostrum is vital |
| Conference on Transfer Agents in Mexico. Bovine | | | | for your treatment. Its immune-boosting abilities will |
| colostrum was a hot topic at the convention; it is the | | | | help your body fight off the cancer. Colostrum |
| most abundant source of transfer factors known | | | | furthermore contains the antioxidant phytic acid, |
| today. | | | | which prevents iron from reaching and nourishing |
| Bovine colostrum is replete with transfer factors such | | | | cancer cells. |
| as hydrogen peroxide and IgG-type immunoglobulins. | | | | Transfer factors may become a valuable way to |
| You may already be familiar hydrogen peroxide -- the | | | | treat communicable disease in the future as |
| stuff the school nurse put on your skinned knees. | | | | researchers learn more and gain the ability to isolate |
| Our healthy cells regularly produce hydrogen peroxide | | | | specific factors. In fact, transfer factors may |
| to attack invading pathogens; in fact, doctors in the | | | | someday cure the diseases ravaging the world |
| British army who were aware of this fact used | | | | population, such as AIDS and Ebola. After the tragic |
| intravenous hydrogen peroxide to treat influenza in | | | | 2002 Ebola outbreak in Uganda, freelance journalist |
| India. | | | | Sam Wainaina explored the potential benefits of |
| Bovine colostrum's high concentration of IgG-type | | | | transfer factors in Africa. In his article, Wainaina |
| immunoglobulins is especially significant for people | | | | concluded that had transfer factors been used during |
| suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. | | | | the outbreak, it could have been contained sooner, |
| While a healthy immune system can easily fight a | | | | saving lives and avoiding mass hysteria. |
| form of diarrhea called cryptosporidiosis, it can be | | | | Research for cures through transfer factors |
| deadly for AIDS patients. IgG-type immunoglobulins | | | | continues, but you can take advantage of the |
| are particularly effective against Cryptosporidium | | | | benefits of colostrum and the amazing transfer |
| parvum, the microorganism that causes this form of | | | | factors it contains today. If your immune system is |
| disease. In fact, according to the Health Science | | | | compromised, you don’t have to wait to help |
| Institute's Underground Cures, "colostrum is able to | | | | yourself by learning more about colostrum |
| ameliorate or completely eliminate the clinical | | | | supplements now. |