Unlike drugs, first-milking colostrum benefits both conditions because it is more correctly thought of as an immune system “normalizer” or “modulator.”
Its health-giving immune factors work intuitively. The end result is immune balance. This is thanks in part to quality first-milking colostrum being a rich source of an immunologically active normalizing hormone called proline-rich polypeptide. Also known as PRP or colostrinine, proline-rich polypeptide is a hormone that regulates the thymus gland. In a 1979 study published in Immunology, it was shown that proline-rich polypeptide from colostrum could either stimulate or suppress the immune response.

Proline-rich polypeptide causes the body’s immune cells to produce cytokines. Cytokines are proteins that regulate the duration and intensity of
the body’s immune response. They also are responsible for cell-to-cell communication; boost T-cell activity; and stimulate the body’s production
of immunoglobulins. When it comes to overative immune system function, PRP “has been demonstrated to improve or eliminate symptomology of both allergies and autoimmune diseases (MS, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and myasthenia gravis),” notes Dr. Rona. Proline-rich polypeptide “inhibits the overproduction of lymphocytes and T cells and reduces the major symptoms of allergies and autoimmunedisease: pain, swelling and inflammation.”