The idea of borrowing immunity makes sense to me and am wanting to try it just to improve general health.
But my question is: If spirochetes have been found in breast milk and the colostrum is processed in a way to preserve the natural antibodies, wouldn't any Lyme spirochetes that the cow or goat might be unknowingly infected with, survive, and couldn't you just be reinfecting yourself?
Yet so many Lymies seem to improve on colostrum.
Thanks for any info you can provide.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
Why not do some research on the net about Transfer Factor and see what you can find.
I quickly found this site that seems to say they have studied it for over 25 years and studies show that harmful germs are not passed on to the recipient via the colostrum:
Read all 4 pages of the document.
Posted by Rivendell (Member # 19922) on :
Thanks TF. I will read it now.
Is TF for Transfer Factor? Do you use it, like it?
Posted by Rivendell (Member # 19922) on :
Well, it says that the TF is made from blood I believe (the first article), the other articles say it is made from colostrum, and their product is guaranteed safe.
But I'm wondering about just straight colostrum, goat colostrum, specifically Mt. Capra goat colostrum.
I want to start out with general immunity and eventually to specific TF's to Lyme (IF I can afford that, pretty expensive).
Anyway, my question is: Is Colostrum (first milk) from goats safe and without Lyme Spirochetes?
I have never heard of a lyme doctor giving a lyme patient the actual colostrum from a goat, cow, or any other animal. But, Transfer Factor is recommended and used by many. See Burrascano Guidelines, 2008 version, page 30.
Posted by Rivendell (Member # 19922) on :
Thanks TF. I'm glad it is working for you. I have read about the TF's that actually target Lyme, which I think would be extra great. Very expensive, though.
Anyway, I was reading about the Mt. Capra colostrum, reading reviews about it, and some said they thought it was as good as 4Life TF, but much cheaper in price. Then I wondered about the transfer of spirochetes.
I know that TF is concentrated colostrum - the part that imparts communication in the immune system. Just wondering if when it is made the process kills microbes that might have been present in the colostrum.
Well, hard to know. Lots of good reviews on the Mt. Capra colostrum.
I used to hang out on a CFS message board, and the people there improved so much with whey, colostrum and transfer factor.
Glad to know Dr. B likes TF and that it helps you.
Thanks again.
Posted by nonna05 (Member # 33557) on :
What is transfer factor, please???????
Posted by nonna05 (Member # 33557) on :
And colostrum, is that the capsuled source of the cow's pre-mother's milk? Is it energy,detox,killer of buggy-bug or what
Posted by Rivendell (Member # 19922) on :
Colostrum is the first milk (pre-milk) that an infant or baby cow, goat, etc. receives from its mother. It basically contains the mother's immunity and is transferred to the baby this way until the baby can develop its own immunity. This helps to protect the baby in the beginning of life, and many experts think it makes for better health in the long run. One of the reasons many support breast-feeding.
Transfer Factor I am not as knowledgeable about. I know that part of the colostrum is concentrated in TF. I believe the memory and communication part of the immune cells.
In targeted TF, the cow/goat/chicken is injected with a dead virus, bacteria, etc. and the cow/goat/chicken develops immunity to this microbe. Then when a person uses this targeted immunity by swallowing the capsules, it helps their own immune system to handle the microbe they are infected with, such as Lyme, herpes, etc.
There was a congressman/doctor who couldn't get well from Lyme disease by taking antibiotics, so he had a farmer do this very thing using his own blood and specific type of Lyme. He drank the colostrum from the farmer's cow (not made into TF) and got well.