Colostrum and Transfer Factor, The Difference

Colostrum contains over 37 different immune factors and 8-plus growth factors and it is 100% pure and natural.

Medical research has shown that the most important immune and growth factors for human adults, children and animals can be provided by bovine (cow) colostrum. Because colostrum is a food rather than a drug, it is free of toxicity and can be consumed without any known side effects.

The Many Health Benefits of Colostrum

Colostrum was designed by nature to promote good health. Some of its many benefits can be found below:

Promotes a sense of well being Improves prostate health Reduces enlarged prostate Enhances sexual function Destroys viruses, bacteria, fungi Speeds healing Eliminates allergy symptoms Builds lean muscle and burns fat Sharpens mental focus Increases endurance Promotes healthy hair Improves athletic performance Improves immunity

ANTIBIOTICS - Overuse of antibiotics renders the body more susceptible to bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections. Unlike antibiotics, colostrum has no far-reaching negative side effects, even children can safely take it. The immune factors in colostrum work with the body to combat illness and promote full health.

GROWTH FACTORS - While the immune factors in colostrum work to fight off disease and protect the body, the incredible benefits of colostrum don't end there. The growth factors found in colostrum can also repair and reverse the damage caused by age, disease, stress and injury.

ANTI-AGING - Perhaps most impressive is colostrum's ability to combat and even reverse the signs of aging. Studies have shown that advanced age is associated with reduced levels of GH and its counterpart, IGF-1. It has been reported that by age 40, an individual's IGF-1 concentrations are less than half of what they were at age 20.

Colostrum naturally provides growth hormones which produce significant anti-aging benefits such as firmer, younger-looking skin. Wrinkles seems to disappear. In fact, colostrum has been referred to as the "natural face-lift."

ATHLETES - Colostrum helps build lean muscle mass, reduce recovery time and minimize the effects of stress. Endorsed by Olympians, colostrum can give you the competitive edge.

BURNING FAT - To lose weight one must increase the body's metabolic rate and stimulate the burning of fat, and not lean tissue. IGF-1, which is found in colostrum, is required to metabolize fat for energy. This means that for those fighting the battle of the bulge, colostrum is a powerful new weapon.

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE - When the immune system attacks healthy tissue, it can cause very serious, and often debilitating damage. Research has shown that colostrum, with its amazing immune factors, may be able to provide relief. Researchers at the University of Alabama and in Poland discovered a small protein chain in colostrum, Proline-rich Polypeptide (PRP), which may help regulate the immune system.

HEART DISEASE - Impaired immune system function may be the main cause of arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. A common type of Chlamydia bacteria has been associated with arterial plaque formation. Immune factors found in colostrum can directly combat the chlamydia bacteria, lower LDL cholesterol levels and promote a healthy heart.

FIRST MILKING - Not all colostrum products are alike. The sooner that colostrum is collected after birth the more immune and growth factors it contains. Hours count.

YOUR CHILDREN - Children can especially benefit from colostrum. Especially if they were not breast fed as a baby. Children also are also more likely to be in situations where they pick up germs. Colostrum can promote concentration, memory and a healthy immune system among many other health benefits. You can get colostrum in strawberry chewables for children.

YOUR PETS - Bovine colostrum is the only colostrum in nature that is not species specific, any mammal can benefit from taking bovine colostrum. Cats, dogs, horses, all mammals can benefit, in fact, most pets love it and will lick it right out of your hand. Or open a capsule and sprinkle it over their food.

The question of what is the difference in colostrum and Transfer Factor™ often comes up. I'm glad to see more companies producing a colostral product because it validates what we've been saying for the past year - that nature has provided in the first maternal milk, the ability to positively influence the immune system.

The analogy between the two products is similar to the analogy between crude oil and jet fuel. You don't put crude oil in a jet plane's tank. You refine or extract out what you wish from the crude oil and put the finished product into the tank.

COLOSTRUM 1) Water
2) Vitamins and minerals
3) Protein
4) Fat
5) Carbohydrates
6) Antibodies (immunoglobins)
7) A little bit of Human Growth Hormones
8) Transfer factors

TRANSFER FACTOR™

1) Transfer factors

You can go to the dairy section of your grocery store and buy milk and get 1) through 5). We don't want these in our product.

6) Antibodies provide short-term or passive protection, but the trouble is that the antibodies that a cow produces are specific to a cow. The antibodies a human would produce are specific to a human. When something is specific to a species (a cow) then another species, over a period of time, will develop antibodies to the antibodies because in this example, a human would recognize a cow's antibodies as foreign, as non-self, and would develop an immune response, which can eventually make us ill. So we remove the antibodies. People speak positively about (7, HGA, but it is not a real factor in Colostrum due to its minuscule amount.

What is important is 8) and 1) - transfer factors, and here is why Transfer Factor™ is superior:

The New Zealand Dairy Board recommends that one should receive 45 grams of colostrum daily in order to receive immune system benefits. Colostrum usually comes at 500 mg capsules and the recommended daily consumption is 500 mg, three times a day, or 1.5 grams a day. The average bottle comes in a 90 count, so that if you do the math you have:

500 mg 3x daily = 1.5 grams daily x 30 days = 45 grams in 30 days consumption (remember that one gram is 1000 mg, 1/2 gram is 500 mg).

Colostrum does contain a small amount of transfer factors. However, to get the same amount of transfer factors for a daily maintenance dosage, you will need to ingest 90 500mg capsules of colostrum to equal the same amount in 3 200mg capsules of Transfer Factor™ from 4Life.

Colostrum is good. It's just that we've found a more efficient way,/b> to consume the beneficial immune system properties by extracting out what we wish and leaving everything else behind. And that's what the patent on each bottle refers to - the extraction process discovered or developed in 1989, but not made commercially viable until 1998.

We never speak against colostrum. It's the mother load of Transfer Factor™. It's just that we've found a way to take nature’s beneficial gift to the newborn and to concentrate the transfer factors into a capsule. And this allows a much broader protective pattern to be ingested each day.

One other thing - Lactose intolerance (milk allergy) is a fact of life. Colostrum contains lactose. Transfer Factor™ does not. We can therefore use Transfer Factor™ in people who are lactose intolerant.

And - Lactoferrin is often mentioned regarding colostrum. In fact, lactoferrin is almost non-existent in bovine colostrum. It is high in human and other bi-pedal animals' colostrum, and in porcine (pig) colostrum, but not an issue in cow's colostrum.

Rob Robertson, MD

Transfer Factor for Pets

Richard H. Bennett, Ph.D - "For decades, the approach to maintaining healthy animals was to wait for signs and symptoms of disease to occur and to counter the challenge with an array of drugs which were toxic for the disease causing agent. This approach is now being questioned as the armada of drugs is diminishing due to multiple drug resistant pathogens. Compounding this alarming trend is the current approach to health maintenance which assumes that "all is well" until actual disease processes begin. By this time, the disease is established, sometimes irreversibly, and the damage has occurred. So the questions arises...What if a new paradigm existed? Could it be possible to optimize the immune status of animals so that (1) disease is much less likely to occur and (2) if disease does occur, it's severity and duration is minimized? The answer is YES and this paradigm shift is being engineered by small, naturally occuring protein-like molecules called TRANSFER FACTORS." Dr. Richard Bennett holds a doctorate in Comparatie Pathology from the University of California, Davis. His work in this area includes basic and applied research in infectious disease microbiology and immunology.

Rob Robertson, M.D. - "Nearly everything that goes wrong with us and our pets, with the exception of trauma - i.e. broken bones, etc., can be traced directly to an immune system failure". Pollution, drug overload and nutrient-poor diets compromise our immune health. The key to self-healing is a strong defense system, which protects dogs and cats from everything from the flu germs to cancer cells. More than their mainstream counterparts, holistic veterinarians believe that a weak immune system plays a key role in causing disease. Drugs aren't the answer for immune enhancement. The immune system is not responsive to drugs for healing. Antibiotics fight infection, but they don't affect whatever weakened the immune system in the first place. This is why holistic veterinarians focus less on things that cause diseases and more on those that affect the body's defenses."

Transfer Factor is not intended to cure or treat disease. It is designed to enhance immune system function to optimal levels. The immune system enhancement is responsible for any clinical improvements.