Golden milky bovine colostrum (BC) is the first food that newborn calves receive upon birth; the golden milky fluid enables all mammals to thrive after birth; animals that don’t receive colostrum often fail to thrive, much less survive.

Filled with peptides that act as immune and growth factors, BC is a traditional anti-aging food. The peptides that facilitate the thriving growth of the newborn are regenerative to DNA and continue to deliver lifetime health effects when consumed regularly into adulthood.

Of all the mammals that produce colostrum, scientific studies show BC works between various species. Preterm piglets for example do better on BC than others species’ colostrum. As it turns out so do humans. BC is nearly identical to human colostrum, except that because calves are born with such premature immune systems, it is wealthier in bioactive factors. BC is a staple in traditional medical systems and has been studied in clinical trials that show its health and antiaging effects.

Golden milky bovine colostrum (BC) is the first food that newborn calves receive upon birth; the golden milky fluid enables all mammals to thrive after birth; animals that don’t receive colostrum often fail to thrive, much less survive.

Filled with peptides that act as immune and growth factors, BC is a traditional anti-aging food. The peptides that facilitate the thriving growth of the newborn are regenerative to DNA and continue to deliver lifetime health effects when consumed regularly into adulthood.

Of all the mammals that produce colostrum, scientific studies show BC works between various species. Preterm piglets for example do better on BC than others species’ colostrum. As it turns out so do humans. BC is nearly identical to human colostrum, except that because calves are born with such premature immune systems, it is wealthier in bioactive factors. BC is a staple in traditional medical systems and has been studied in clinical trials that show its health and antiaging effects.

Wound Repair

In the Journal of Nutrition Science, scientists observe that BC induced growth and “wound-healing” processes in intestinal epithelial cells. Feeding BC led to “the expression of a significant number of genes involved in cell migration, adhesion and proliferation… colostrum specific bioactive content could be beneficial for… wound healing through a precise gene expression programme.”

Regulates Inflammation

Pathogenic bacterial species such as Escherichia coli and salmonellae attack the integrity of the intestinal epithelium and induce inflammatory responses. BC consumption exerts numerous beneficial effects on the properties of intestinal epithelial cells and protects the gastrointestinal tract of newborns from pathogenic invasion. But BC doesn’t just mount the body’s white blood cells to attach pathogens. It also regulates the immune cells so that they do not over-react or decimate the tissues themselves with a hyper response.

The study from the British Journal of Nutrition found BC “may protect and preserve the integrity of the intestinal mucosal barrier in the host by controlling the expression levels of early and late inflammatory genes following invasion by enteric pathogens.”

 

What To Look For

BC is available in grades and varieties. Some products remove the fat. However, the fat contains immune and growth factors and removing it reduces the very essence of BC’s health factors. Other products are obtained well after the birth of the calf when the colostrum from the mother has transitioned to milk and contains casein and other proteins and fewer peptides and antibodies. Six-hour colostrum is shown to be wealthiest in immune and growth factors. It is available as capsules, wafers, lozenges, chewables and powder.