We become more vulnerable to disease, our energy level and enthusiasm lessens, our skin loses its elasticity, and we gain unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. We also live in a toxic environment, with pollutants and allergens all around us. The onset of almost all infectious and degenerative disease, including cancer and heart disease, is preceded or accompanied by lowered immune system function. Colostrum also contains PRP, shown in medical studies to help boost an underactive immune system. It also helps balance the overactive immune system present in autoimmune diseases conditions in which the body actually attacks itself.
Doctors acknowledge that most disease enters the body through the bowel.
In addition, colostrum's growth factors help heal the bowel lining to prevent further penetration and harm. They suggest that colostrum provides unique new possibilities for rejuvenation. It provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure the health and vitality of the newborn. Colostrum is so important that most baby animals would simply die without it. Also, the research shows that only cows' colostrum contains special glycoproteins and protease inhibitors which are extremely effective at protecting the destruction of colostrum's active components by adult human digestive enzymes and stomach acids.