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Colostrum is the pre-milk liquid that mothers produce at birth. It is full of immune-enhancing antibodies, other important immune factors, and essential growth factors to insure health and vitality for adults and children.

Research indicates that Colostrum can help:

• Support immune system function
• Combat bacteria and viruses
• Enhance skin and muscle rejuvenation
• Support joint and cartilage function
• Build lean muscle mass
• Metabolize (burn) fat
• Enhance mood
• Maintain healthy intestinal flora
• Increase strength and stamina
• Accelerate healing of injury or trauma
  

Colostrum FAQ
What Is Colostrum?
Why is Colostrum Exceptional?
Why do we need Colostrum as adults?
Just How Does Colostrum Work?

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 is Colostrum Exceptional?

As we age, we notice it takes us a little longer to fight off a cold or flu, something aches, our energy and enthusiasm have lessened, our skin loses its elasticity and gravity takes its toll on our bodies. Our focus turns to health and anti aging products and knowledge. We each balance our own vitamins, minerals and herbs.. many times unaware of dangerous doses and combinations. We’ve looked everywhere for an answer. We’ve asked plants and minerals for something they’re unable to provide because they don’t have immune systems to produce immune factors and immunoglobulins and they don’t have growth factors for muscle, skin and bone.. 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. back to top

Why do we need Colostrum as adults?

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.

Relief Of Joint Pain and Increased Energy
I just had to drop you a line to let you know what an amazing product I think Colostrum Plus is. I have been taking nutritional supplements for over 20 years and I never really noticed much of a change when taking them. But what a difference when I started taking Colostrum Plus. The last 9-12 months I started to experience some real health challenges. I gained weight even though I was exercising on a regular basis. I developed extreme stiffness and aching in my muscles and joints. I tried everything I could think of, fat blockers, high carbohydrate diet, low carbohydrate diet, high protein diet, low protein diet, a nutritionist and even a chiropractor. Nothing seemed to help. Then I started taking Colostrum Plus, within a few days I could notice a difference and within a week the stiffness and aching was almost gone, plus I dropped 3 minutes off my 3.5 mile run. My energy level is way up and I feel better than I have felt in over a year. The greatest part is that Colostrum Plus is a food, so I know I'm putting healthy things in my body. I can't wait until I have been on the product for a month, imagine how great I'll feel by then. I'm looking forward to trying more of your products. Thanks again. back to top

~Ken S~

Relief From Skin Rash
I have a new grandson and he has had baby rash on his face and rash in all the folds of his skin. I started putting the Colostrum cream on him and he immediately started clearing up. As he drools and as winter chaps his face the Colostrum cream is a daily routine. Thank you for having such a safe and natural product for my precious grandson. back to top

~Charlann Peavler; New Franklin, MO~

Clears Pet's Chronic Ear Infection
Thank you New Life Colostrum! We put our 2 year old yellow lab, Abbey, on New Life Colostrum powder the week before Christmas. Abbey has had continuous ear infections for her entire life. We had to flush them out every other day and apply Ottomax constantly. She was miserable. Then one day Abbey's daycamp, Camp Canine, recommended using Colostrum. Not only did it clear up her infections in three weeks but now she loves her dog food sprinkled with Colostrum powder (we add 1 cup of warm water). For the first month we gave her 1 tsp. of Colostrum on her food twice a day. After a month we decreased the dosage to 1/4 - 1/2 tsp. twice a day. It's been nearly two months and NO EAR INFECTIONS! Abbey is so happy!
- Lisa Kinsey; Holly Springs, NC.back to top

Fybromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
I suffer from Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. I have a lifestyle and schedule that does not allow me to be ill. A friend of mine turned me on to Colostrum. I have noticed changes with my appearance, weight loss, an improved sleep pattern, alertness AND NO MUSCLE ACHES that would previously reduce me to tears. Doctors have prescribed different medications that were worthless. Most doctors do not understand nor have the ability to treat Fibromyalgia patients! I had endured consistent chronic chilling pain for over five years and endure the associated depression. I can verify that Colostrum, Life's First Food, has saved my life. It's my miracle. Colostrum (as promised by my friend) has made all of these ailments GO AWAY! I am a new person, a better mother and enjoy life like I never have enjoyed life before. back to top

~Simone Thompson~

Cyst Reduction
My Husband had a cyst on the top of his toe. He had it drained three times. A clear jelly would come out. When it filled the fourth time, I opened a capsule of colostrum and added it to some Aloe Vera jell to hold it and wrapped his toe every night. A crust would forum on top, I removed this and each time it was smaller till now it is flat, with a tiny spot. We have been taking colostrum since Aug. 99- we take other supplements, have had to stop some of them, decrease some others. We are both 74, take no RX meds but we feel great, and live an active life. back to top

~Alice Tomassoni~

Post-Surgical Healing - Bilateral Mastectomy
In 1994 living in Houston Texas, I underwent a Bi lateral Mastectomy. Given my choices, I didn't mind that much. I knew that I would have re construction surgery an be almost as good as new except alive. I had the surgery arranged that the reconstruction would be immediate. Reconstruction would take place at the same time the breast were removed. After surgery, I would not heal. My skin kept breaking open. After playing implants in and implants out for over 22 surgeries , months in Hyperberics and a period if two years, I called it quits. Another two years past. I moved to Virginia. Giving up all hopes for a chance at reconstruction because I could not find a doctor that would attempt it with the past medical history and insurance problems, I resigned myself to a life of being badly scared and in pain most all the time. Virginia past a new law that stated an insurance company must pay for reconstruction after a mastectomy no matter how long ago, it was not considered a pre existing condition. With this information, I went in search of a plastic surgeon that would take on my case. I found one, that said he could use the muscle from my back and move it to the front, and with the use of saline implants would be almost as good as new. I was taken into surgery and my LD muscle and a skin flap was taken from my back and tunneled through under my arms and brought out in front. The breast surgery went well, however my back opened wide up on both sides. After several failed skin graphs to attempt to close. After over a period of a year, and countless other surgeries, I still had huge gapping holes in my back (6 inches in diameter and so deep that it took over 24 4x4 gauze to fill each one). For over a year it was tri weekly visits to the doctor, antibiotics, skin graphs, dressing changes every hour and everything else you could imagine. Desperate and almost suicidal, I went to another doctor for help. They told me they had never seen anything like it before and could not understand why nothing had worked. In short, they could not help me. As I was leaving the office a nurse told me to try stuffing the holes with fresh seaweed. With nothing to lose except an infection, I went in search. After asking everyone in town like an idiot for fresh seaweed I ended up at a store called Roanoke Co-op. The Saint that waited on me was named Elizabeth. After a brief history she informed me that seaweed would not help, but thought she had something that would. Ask that I go home while she did some research. I received a call from her later that afternoon. She ask me the following questions. 1. Do you or have you ever smoked (yes) 2. Do you have chronic diarrhea (yes) 3. Do you get colds often. (yes) 4. Do you get pneumonia often (yes) After all my answers were yes, she said she had what I needed. I went back to the store and she gave me New Life Colostrum in Power, Liquid and capsule form. This was on a Thursday. The holes in my back had NO skin whatsoever in on or around it. I went home determined not to tell my Doctor what I was going to try until I was to see him the following Monday. I dusted the powder into the wounds, then sprayed and then took the capsules. Fearing a nasty infection, when my husband changed the bandages the following morning, his exact words were OH MY GOD, In a panic I asked WHAT. It seems skin about the size of a dime had began to grow in the bottom of the wound. By Monday a thin layer of skin was covering the bottom of the wound. My doctor was amazed to say the least. He say He did not believe that it was the colostrum but that it would not hurt so if I wanted to keep taking it go ahead. Just like a Doctor I guess. After three weeks the wound was healed enough to try another surgery. The only difference this time was that I insisted that before trying to close the hole my doctor must take the liquid colostrum into the operating room and place inside the wound before closing. And that I be allowed to take the capsules while in the hospital. All of this was done, without hospital knowledge of course. The would healed faster than you could imagine. Stitches that should be in for ten days before removal were removed in four. My back stayed together with no other complications. My doctor is now a big believer in your product and goes as far a when he has a patient with complications, I get a call from that patient and I tell them about it. By the way, I have not had a cold or the flu in over two years. My chronic diarrhea is gone. I feel great. There is no way I will not ever do without it a single day for the rest of my life, because you see it gave me back my life after 6 long years. Thank you!!!!!!!!! back to top

~Georgia; Roanoke, VA~

Burn Injury Heals Quickly
I severely burned my wrist on an engine block. I was told that it would take at least a month to heal and would probably leave a scar. With colostrum, it was completely healed, without scarring, in one week. back to top

~Howard; Bethesda, Maryland~

Reduced Inflammation
I was diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica (a disease where the inflammed blood vessels affect joints and muscles). Colostrum has helped me physically, mentally and spiritually. I am no longer depressed because I am getting better and better, thanks to colostrum. My husband appreciates the "new me". I would recommend colostrum very highly for those who want the finest quality of life. back to top

~Rhoda; Clearwater, Florida~

Fast Healing After Knee Replacement and Free From Depression
I am a seventy year old man who, this last year, went through a devastating personal experience that led to severe depression. My doctor gave me numerous antidepressant drugs over a ten month period that proved unsuccessful. After taking colostrum for two months, my depression lifted. I also had a total knee replacement two weeks ago. I had my other knee replaced a year ago and it took forever to heal. This time, to everyone’s disbelief, I was out dancing ten days after my surgery. My muscles are more defined and my stomach is noticeably flatter. My blood pressure has dropped from 145/85 to 120/70 and my pulse has gone from 83 to 70. I have been able to come off my heart medication. back to top

~Bill; Holladay, Utah~

Relief From Hives
I have had hives internally and externally that even the strongest medication hasn’t helped. Within days of taking colostrum, 95% of my symptoms were gone. For the first time in years, I was able to wear clothes comfortably, sleep, go to work, eat normal foods and cuddle with my wife. I have more energy and am less moody. My wife thinks she married a new man. I have my life back - plain and simple. There are no words to express how incredible all this is and what it means to me. back to top

~Warren; Murray, Utah~

Relief From Bursitis Pain
I have been troubled with very painful bursitis in both my hips for the last two years. Nighttime was the worst because any movement would waken me with pain. I have been taking physical therapy treatments regularly to obtain some relief. Because I was so miserable, I began taking colostrum. I was pain free after three weeks of taking colostrum. I have always been quite a skeptic, so I am truly surprised and very happy. back to top

~Janet; Cottonwood, Utah~

Quick Recovery Post Arthroscopic Surgery
I broke my right shoulder twice and my left shoulder once several years ago. With any lifting, I would dislocate my shoulder. Colostrum has given me noticeable upper muscular strength and I no longer have a problem with lifting. I had orthoscopy knee surgery shortly after started taking colostrum. They had to smooth the knee cap and repair cartilage. I was back at work and climbing stairs, two hours after surgery. My work brings me in close contact with over forty men on a daily basis. I am the only one that hasn't’t been sick this winter. I’ve never felt better and it I guess it shows because everyone tells me that I look better than I have for years. back to top

~ Ken; Salt Lake City, Utah~

Pain Reduction and Quick Healing Post Surgery
I just had to write to you to let you know how wonderful I think Colostrum is. I had a major cosmetic surgery to correct a dysmorphic condition this last Friday and was released the same day. Needless to say, I was in a lot of pain, and even the slightest movement aggravated the sutured area and inflamed it even more. The pain medication I was prescribed became my good friend. The next day, my husband had a chiropractic appointment and came home with a bottle of colostrum capsules from our Chiropractor. I took the advanced dosage right then, and then again the next morning. Well, I couldn't believe it myself, but the pain was completely gone, and I felt so good, I put my TaeBo (kick boxing) tape on and worked out! Colostrum speeds up healing at lightning speed, and I am really happy about that because I am very athletic, and the idea of taking a month off to "heal" would have sent my body into a tailspin. Thank you for an amazing product. I'm telling everybody about it. back to top

~J.O.; Los Angeles, California ~

Healing Post Surgery
I have been taking 6 colostrum capsules a day for approximately 9 weeks. Before taking this I had bad, bad stomach cramps every day since my gall bladder operation several years ago. Since the first day I took the colostrum capsules I have had no cramps! My doctor had told me I would just have to live with tummy aches. This is making such a wonderful difference in my life I just wanted to tell you! back to top

~Glenda; Brunswick, GA~

Relief From Colitis
I have been suffering with colitis for 8 weeks. I have been on asacol and folic acid and rowasa enemas. As of 2 weeks ago I began to take Colostrum and within 2 days began to have normal bowels. Gradually my digestive tract has gotten better and better. I also have been given paxil for anxiety. I believe it has been the colostrum that has made the improvement and I have more energy than before the attack of colitis. I am a believer thanks to my Drs. nurse who made me aware of the product. I hope I will never have another attack. back to top

~ Patsy; New Market, NH~

Overall Improved Health
Your product is a miracle. I ordered it Wednesday and it arrived Thursday. I immediately took 2 capsules and split one up to give to my cats. The cats had more energy and played most of the night; one has colitis and the other one eats too much and vomits so I think this may be the cure for them, too. My allergies and arthritis are so much better. My gut is flat. I feel better than I have felt in years. My skin is as soft as a baby's butt. back to top

~Janice; Lilburn, GA