Wonders Of Colostrum

From brain growth to increasing immune IQ

Mothers of newborns generally produce pure colostrum for the first two to five days after birth. After this, they produce “transitional milk,” a blend of colostrum and breast milk. Then comes breast milk, which is high in sugar, fat and proteins but contains lesser amounts of peptides and poly-peptides directly from the mother’s own immune, nervous, and hormonal systems.

For those first few days following birth, the baby’s stomach is still not closed. The body’s epithelial and vascular tissues are lining the vessels and barriers. The skin is developing its own immunity. The gut is being colonized by bacterial strains, hopefully beneficial ones. The brain is growing excessively rapidly. The immune system is transitioning to a hostile and tricky world of threats.

Those first few days of mother’s gold fluid provide a super boost for babies to nutritionally thrive and grow rapidly to adopt to the world. Colostrum is a concentrate of hormones, growth factors, immunoglobulins, peptides, and poly-peptides designed to boost all of a baby’s functions.

It’s true a mother’s colostrum production ceases after about five days, but health professionals agree that babies, infants, and children can benefit from either stored mother’s colostrum or bovine colostrum (BC) that is almost identical and proven to work as well as a substitute.