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Lyme’s Disease
The beneficial effects of colostrum for Lyme’s disease have been known for
decades. In 1986, former Congressman Berkley Bedell actually hired a special farmer to
create colostrum which was specific to his own strain of Lyme’s disease. The
congressman provided blood samples to the farmer and the farmer introduced them into a
cow. The cow’s body, in response to being inoculated with Lyme’s disease bacteria in the
blood sample, began to manufacture immune substances (known as antibodies) against
Lyme’s disease. When the cow provided first-food or colostrum after the birth of its calf,
the colostrum contained antibodies specific to the strain of Lyme’s disease the
congressman was infected with. The congressman was cured of his Lyme’s disease after
drinking the colostrum.
Most of us don’t have the capability to go as far as Congressman Bedell and we
don’t have too. Cows naturally create antibodies against this disease because of being
exposed to it naturally. While in the fields and the lots, ticks, which carry the disease bite
the cow and through the course of their natural immune system defense create the
antibodies needed to provide protection. A person receives very important immune
system programming from their mother during the first few days of breast feeding. This
priceless first milk contains immune system programming codes that teach a young
person’s immune system to fight disease. It contains proteins and nutrients that are not
found in any other food source and are thus never ingested except during breast feeding.
Often, people are not breastfed immediately following birth because of various
hospital procedures. People who were born sick and kept isolated from their mother for
the first few days/weeks of life are especially likely to develop immune system problems
later in life due to insufficient colostrum consumption. Being fed with grocery store
formula instead of actual mother’s milk can also cause a person to miss this important
first-food. But even people who did receive adequate breast feeding still benefit from
supplemental colostrum.
Having a chronic illness of any form is an indication that colostrum might help.
Bovine (cow) colostrum is often used as a human supplement because it has been
scientifically demonstrated that bovine colostrum is biologically transferable to humans.
Many scientific studies have shown the benefits of bovine colostrum in humans.
Colostrum also contains transfer factors. The definition of a transfer factor is “a
substance that is produced and secreted by a lymphocyte functioning in cell-mediated
immunity, and that upon incorporation into a lymphocyte which has not been sensitized,
confers on it the same immunological specificity as the sensitized cell.” This means that
transfer factors stimulate and modulate the immune system against infectious disease.
Some companies have chosen to sell isolated transfer factors instead of whole
colostrum. Transfer factors are often isolated from biological sources other than
colostrum. These supplements often contain specific transfer factors intended to target
specific infectious organisms. Transfer factors can be contrasted with colostrum, which
contains multiple antibodies for multiple infectious organisms. Colostrum also contains
numerous immune system substances other than transfer factors, such as a full array of
immunoglobulins, while transfer factor is often an isolated formula of just one ingredient.
Colostrum actually induces your own immune system to begin fighting Lyme’s
disease more effectively. Because your immune system is the most important weapon
against Lyme’s disease, colostrum is a very valuable tool.
Dr. Mike Loper
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