What Is Colostrum?

Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid produced from the mother's mammary glands during the first 24-48 hours after birth. New Life Colostrum is bovine (cow) Colostrum. It provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure the health and vitality of the newborn. Colostrum is so important that most infants would simply die without it.

Colostrum's effectiveness is reduced if it isn't organic, and if it isn't processed right. Excessive heat is particularly bad. New Life Colostrum is processed at low heat to protect its potency.
New Life Colostrum is the only colostrum clinically proven to destroy a wide range of harmful pathogens.

Our original colostrum product, available in both capsules and powder form, is collected only from pasture-fed cows which are pesticide, antibiotic and hormone free. Our supplier, New Zealand Dairies, provides a healthy, organic herd of more than 1.5 million cattle. This provides colostrum with significantly enhanced efficacy, since naturally pasture-fed animals develop immunity to a wider range of pathogens than those which are fed processed feed. The huge herd also creates a high degree of standardization. Symbiotics is the only U.S. distributor of bovine colostrum able to make this superior quality colostrum available to consumers.

Common sense also suggests that nutrients are difficult for humans to assimilate if they are not water-soluble. Symbiotics has developed a unique, proprietary process for our original colostrum to make it fully water-soluble -- and provide maximum health benefits. back to top

Why do we need Colostrum as adults? Why is Colostrum Exceptional?

As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a cold or flu, we become more vulnerable to disease, our energy and enthusiasm lessen, our skin loses its elasticity, we gain unwanted weight and lose muscle tone. After maturity, we gradually lose the immune and growth factors in our body. This impacts us to search for anti-aging and health products and knowledge. We've looked to plants and minerals for an answer, isolating and megadosing on micro-nutrients (vitamins and minerals). Recently we've become more aware, thanks to the media, about the dangers of this hit and miss approach. With killer bugs at our doorstep, we need to look to what was designed specifically for the survival of our species. Aging, illness and death occur with the loss of immune and growth factors in our bodies. Medical science has shown in hundreds of published reports worldwide that these can possibly be replaced in the human body....with bovine colostrum.

Bovine colostrum is not new. In India, for thousands of years, Ayurvedic physicians and the spiritual leaders have documented the physical and spiritual health benefits from colostrum. It is dried and delivered by the milkman and is known for its healing and therapeutic ability. Scandinavian countries have been making a delicious colostrum pudding and dessert topped with honey, for hundreds of years, to celebrate the birth of calves and good health. It was used in the US as an early antibiotic that was in much favor until the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics.

In the late 18th Century, Western scientists began to study colostrum and document its benefits for survival, growth and development for the newborn. Today, there are thousands of published scientific and clinical studies of major health benefits associated with colostrum. back to top

Just How Does Colostrum Work?

Colostrum is highly beneficial in the unique manner in which it provides the body with its numerous immune factors. Most infectious disease-causing organisms enter the body through the mucous membranes of the intestinal tract. In order to remain healthy, it is critical that we are able to combat disease-causing organisms: bacteria, viruses, pollutants, contaminants and allergens where they attack us. Clinical research by Dr. David Tyrell, in England, in 1980, revealed that a high percentage of the antibodies and immunoglobulins present in colostrum are believed not to be absorbed but remain in the intestinal tract where they attack disease causing organisms before they penetrate the body and cause disease. The remainder are believed to be absorbed and distributed to assist in our internal defense processes. It is this combination of action that is believed to make colostrum so unique and effective as an oral supplement.