The History Of Colostrum

A physician, Albert Sabin who is credited with developing the first polio vaccine, was an advocate of colostrum use and had in fact originally isolated the first anti-polio antibodies from bovine colostrum. About forty years later Campbell and Peterson, using an orthodox vaccination protection theory theory, developed a program whereby cows where immunised with a mixture of attenuated pathogens before the birth of their calf.

The colostrum collected from these animals was referred to as immune or hyperimmunised colostrum. Research which was conducted using the hyperimmune milks showed it to be prophylactically and therapeutically successful in preventing and treating pathogens capable of causing infections in the intestinal tract, ranging from E.coli, infant rotavirus, Cryptococcidiosis diarrhoea in AIDS and other immunodeficient patients, dental carie formation and a variety of other conditions.

In 1992 Kummer was the first to demonstrate that colostrum from non-immunised cows can prevent gastrointestinal disease in infants. In 1998 McConnell and her colleagues at Otago University, New Zealand, in conjunction with The New Zealand Dairy Group demonstrated that it was possible to produce a colostrum from pasture-fed, non-immunised cows which showed a greater antibody volume and activity that that of the hyperimmunised equivalent. The New Zealand Dairy Industry pioneered the first commercial colostrum collection system.

Hundreds of dairy farmers with more than 40,000 cows invested in separated stainless steel tanks and the companies developed the means by which to collect, pasteurise, dry, and store colostrum in large quantities. New Image International pioneered the marketing of colostrum with the creation of a product from the batch by the name of LIFELINE.

Source: Timeless Lifestyle