Colostrum by Symbiotics

Colostrum's immune factors work best if they are assisted in reaching the small intestine. Capsules, taken on an empty stomach and washed down with plenty of water, do exactly that.

Colostrum Plus also contains lactoferrin, a potent compound which helps increase iron bioavailability in the body. There are 19 identifiable titers of antibodies in colostrum as well as the immune factors that help support proper immune function.

• Support immune system function.
• Enhance skin and muscle rejuvenation.
• Increase strengh and stamina.

Suggested Usage: adult : take 2 cpasules twice daily on an empty stomach with 8 oz. of water, or open capsule and sprinkle over a small amount of food.

Additional Information about Colostrum:

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. 

The Problem

During the fifties and sixties, many doctors recommended against breastfeeding. So many of us never got the natural "seeding" -- the initial boost to our immune and digestive systems -- which Colostrum provides. Plus, after puberty, the amount of immune and growth factors present in our bodies begins to decline. 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 Solution

Research has shown that Colostrum has powerful natural immune and growth factors that bring the body to a state of homeostasis -- its powerful, vital natural state of health and well being. Colostrum helps support healthy immune function; it also enables us to resist the harmful effects of pollutants, contaminants and allergens where they attack us.

Plus, the growth factors in Colostrum create many of the positive "side-effects" of a healthy organism -- an enhanced ability to metabolize or "burn" fat, greater ease in building lean muscle mass, and enhanced rejuvenation of skin and muscle.

What's Different About Symbiotics Colostrum?

Colostrum's effectiveness is reduced if it doesn't meet Symbiotics Standards regarding component analysis and protective processing. Excessive heat is particularly bad. Symbiotics Colostrum is processed at low heat to protect its potency.

Symbiotics Colostrum is the only colostrum clinically proven to destroy a wide range of harmful pathogens.

Our original colostrum product, available in both capsules and powder form, is collected only from pasture-fed cows that are pesticide, antibiotic and rBST free. Our supplier, the New Zealand Dairy Group, provides a healthy herd of more than 1.5 million cattle. This provides colostrum with significantly enhanced efficacy, since naturally pasture-fed animals develop immunity to a wider range of pathogens than those which are fed processed feed. The huge herd also creates a high degree of standardization. Symbiotics is the only U.S. distributor of bovine colostrum able to make this superior quality colostrum for human consumption.

Common sense also suggests that nutrients are difficult for humans to assimilate if they are not water-soluble. Symbiotics has developed a unique, proprietary process for our original colostrum to make it fully dispersible -- and provide maximum health benefits.

Why is Colostrum Exceptional?

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. Recently we've become more aware, thanks to the media, about the dangers of this hit and miss approach. With killer bugs at our doorstep, we need to look to what was designed specifically for the survival of our species. 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.

Just How Does Colostrum Work?

Colostrum is highly beneficial in the unique manner in which it provides the body with its numerous immune factors. Most pathogens enter the body through the mucous membranes of the intestinal tract. In order to remain healthy, it is critical that we are able to combat disease-causing organisms: bacteria, viruses, pollutants, contaminants and allergens where they attack us. Clinical research by Dr. David Tyrell, in England, in 1980, revealed that a high percentage of the antibodies and immunoglobulins present in colostrum are believed not to be absorbed but remain in the intestinal tract. There, immune factors work to support proper immune function and healthy intestinal flora. Other immune factors are believed to be absorbed and distributed to assist in our internal defense processes. It is this combination of action that is believed to make colostrum so unique and effective as an oral supplement.