• What is Colostrum
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• What is in Colostrum

• Immune factors
• Cell and tissue growth factors
• Metabolic factors
• Amino acids
• Minerals
• Vitamins

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• Cold Filtration process
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What is in Colostrum

Bovine Colostrum is made up of over 82 different components that have been isolated from colostrum. The components found in bovine colostrum are in a unique natural balance not found elsewhere and it is this balance that is of unique benefit to our health.

List of main components

Most important natural constituents of colostrum are:

• Critical Immune factors

  • Immunoglobulins (antibodies) - IgG, IgA, IgE, IgD, IgM
  • Leukocytes
  • Lysozyme
  • Lactoferrin
  • Interferon
  • Transferrin
  • Proline-rich-polypeptide (PRP)
  • Cytokines
  • Lymphokines
  • Transfer factors

• Critical cell and tissue repair growth factors

• Transforming growth factor (TgF - A & B)
• Insulin-like growth factor (IgF-1)
• Fybro blast growth factor (FgF)
• Epithelial growth factor (EgF)
• Platelet-derived growth factor (PDgF)
• Trypsin and Protease inhibitors
• Growth Hormone (GH)

• Critical metabolic factors

• Insulin
• Leptin
• Mineral binding proteins
• Vitamin binding proteins
• Enzyme inhibitors

• Amino acids

  - contains all essential and non-essential amino acids.
  • Essential amino acids
    Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenilalanine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Valine.
  • Non-essential amino acids
    Alanine, Arginine, Aspartic acid, ß-Alanine, Cystine, Glutamine, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Phosphorethanolamine, Proline, Serine, Taurine, Tyrosine.

• Minerals

• Calcium (Ca), Iron (Fe), Magnesium (Mg), Manganese (Mn), Phosphorous (P), Potassium (K), Selenium (Se), Sodium (Na), Zinc (Zn)

• Vitamins

• Thiamin (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Nicotinamide (Vitamin B3), Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5), Pyrodoxin (Vitamin B6), Folic acid (Vitamin B9), Cobalamin (Vitamin B12)


• Other nutrients that make up over the 82 components in colostrum

All of these components that make up colostrum are naturally present.

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