Cows for Immune Defense

What does Mother Nature provide in colostrum for your immune defense?

What benefits does Mother Nature provide for general nutrition and health with colostum?

What are the nutritional health benefits of colostrum?

When has research shown nutritional benefits from colostrum in the immune defense against bacteria, parasites and viruses?

References

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What does Mother Nature provide in colostrum for your immune defense?

Colostrum

Colostrum is the first milk produced after birth.

Colostrum is rich antibodies and other immune proteins.

Colostrum is rich in immune cells.

What benefits does Mother Nature provide for general nutrition and health with colostum?

Essential ingredients

Colostrum is rich in nucleic acids.

Colostrum contains a combination of fats, amino acids and sugars.

Colostrum contains vitamins.

Colostrum contains antioxidants.

 

Key benefits

Colostrum is a good source of calories for basic nutrition.

Colostrum helps start the digestive activity in a newborn.

Colostrum helps regulate appetite. It can increase and decrease appetite.

 

Nutritional benefits associated with illness

Colostrum helps restart normal digestion after an illness.

Colostrum helps restart digestion after a course of antibiotics.

What are the nutritional health benefits of colostrum?

Protection against infections occurring in the digestive system

Colostrum can reduce the severity of some viral infections.

Colostrum can stop the development of some viral infections.

Colostrum can reduce the severity of some bacterial infections.

Colostrum can interfere with the harm caused by toxins produced by bacteria.

Colostrum can rob bacteria of iron they need to grow and mount their attack on the body.

Colostrum can stop some parasitic infections from developing or decrease their severity.

 

Strengthening of the immune system

Colostrum can direct iron to the immue system that needs it for its effective activity againsts bacteria, parasites and viruses.

It is an excellent source of Vitamin B12 which is essential for immune function.

Colostrum can help activate the antibody producing B cells.

Colostrum can help control T cell activity.

Colostrum cotains cytokines.

Promotion of healing

Colostrum can limit the harmful effects seen with inflammation at times.

It helps prevent the immune system from getting carried away and reacting to strongly.

Inflammatory factors are kept at a lower level with the help of colostrum.

Colostrum can accelerate healing.

 

Promotion of health and normal growth

Colostrum promotes growth.

Colostrum may increase the development of muscle masss.

Colostrum can help you stay healthy when faced with stress and change.

Colostrum can protect the digestive tract.

When has research shown nutritional benefits from colostrum in the immune defense against bacteria, parasites and viruses?

(NOTE: Some of these benefits may ONLY come from specially produced colostrum. Exposure to the antigens of bacteria, parasite or virus are needed to produce specific antibodies to them. Without such an exposure, colostrum would not contain such specific protective antibodies. Without the specific antibodies, colostrum would provide nutritional support from its other propertiesfor your immune defense. With the serious infections these "bugs" cause, you should seek care from a qualified health professional who will help you manage the disease, its complications and prevent its spread to others.)

 

Bacterial infections

E. coli

Clostridium difficile

Cholera

Pertussis

Staphylococcus

 

Parasitic infections

Amoeba

Cryptospordium

 

Viral infections

Colostrum can convey passive immunity against some infections.

Herpes simplex - colostrum contains antibodies against the virus and cells that kill the virus.

HIV - colostrum can relieve the symptoms of secondary enteric infections in immunocompromised people.

Polio virus - polio enters the body through the digestive system and colostrum interferes with the entry into the body.

Rotavirus - colostrum may reduce the incidence and severity of rotavirus infections.

References

Acosta-Altamirano G et al. (1987)

Antiamoebic properties of human colostrum.

Adv Exp Med Biol 216B: 1347-1352.

Buescher ES and McIheran SM.(1988)

Antioxidant properties of human colostrum.

Pediat Res 24: 14-19.

Crago SS and Mestechy J. (1983)

Immunoinhibitory elements in human colostrum.

Surv Immunol Res 2: 164-169.

Chase CCL et al. (1995)

The effects of oral antibiotic therapies on immune function and productivity.

Proc Am Assoc Surine Pract 26: 111-114.

Ebina T et al. (1983)

Prevention of rotavirus infection with cow colostrum containing antibody against human rotavirus.

Lancet 29:1029-1030).

Hurley DJ et al. (1995)

Evidence supporting the mechanism of enteric protection provided by colostral whey fed supplements.

Proc Am Assoc Bovine Pract 27: 193-198.

Juto P (1985)

Human milk stimulates B cell function.

Arch Dis Child 60: 610-613.

Kim et al. (1985)

In vitro and vivo neutralizing activity of human colostrum and milk against purified toxins A and B of Clostridium difficile.

J Infect Dis 150: 57-61.

Kuhl S et al. (1978)

Human colostral cytoxicity: Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity against Herpes simplex virus infected cells mediated by colostral cells.

J Clin Lab Immunol 1: 221-224.

Lawton JWM et al. (1979)

Interferon synthesis by human colostral leukocytes.

Arch Dis Child 54: 127-130.

Majumdar AS et al (1982)

Protective properties of anticholera antibodies in human colostrum.

Infect Immun 36: 962-965.

McClead R et al. (1982)

Resistance of bovine anti-cholera tixin IgG1 (anti-CT) to in vitro and in vivo proteolysis.

Pediat Res 6: 227-231.

Moldoveanu A et al. (1983)

Antibacterial properties of milk: IgA-peroxidase lactoferrin interactions.

Ann NY Acad Sci 409: 848-850.

Oda S et al. (1989)

Insulin-like growth factor 1 Growth Hormone, Insulin and Glucagon concentrations in bovine colostrum and in plasma of cows and neonatal calves around parturition.

Comp Biochem Physiol A: Comp Physiol 94A: 805-808.

Orga et al. (1983)

Colostrum derived immunity in maternal neonatal interactions.

Ann NY Acad Sci 409: 82-92.

Palmer EL et al. (1980)

Antiviral activity of colostrum and serum immunoglobulins A and G.

J Med Virol 5: 123-129.

Ritchie DJ and Becker ES. (1994)

Update on the management of intestinal cryptosporidosis in AIDS.

Ann Pharmacother 28: 767-778.

Rouse BT et al. (1976)

Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity in cows: Comparison of effector cell activity against erythrocytes and herpes-virus infected bovine target cells.

Infect Immun 13: 1433-1440.

Sabin AB. (1950)

Antipoliomyelitic substance in milk from human beings and certain cows.

Am J Dis Child 80: 866-870.

Sabin AB. et al. (1962)

Antipoliomyelitic activity of human and bovine colostrum and milk.

Pediatrics 29: 105-115.

Spik G et al. (1981)

Bacteriostasis of milk sensitive strain of E. coli by immunoglobulins and iron-binding proteins associated with colostrum.

Immunol 35: 663-670.

Waltz B et al. (1993)

Enhancement of resistance to Cryptosporidium parvum by pooled bovine colostrum during murine retrovirus infection.

Am J Med Hygiene 48: 519-23.

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