Anti-Aging
Getting a little long in the tooth? Then colostrum is for you.
Colostrum has many antioxidant and antiaging components to keep you in top shape longer. It helps keep skin looking young and healthy. It removes dangerous free oxygen
radicals, metabolic waste products that can cause you to age more rapidly. It supplies us with growth factors and other important substances that normally decline with age, leading to cell senescence
and accelerated aging.
Oxidation is the normal metabolism of nutrients in the body. As we age, we are less able to remove the byproducts of metabolism resulting in high levels of reactive
oxygen species (ROS), which results in oxidative stress in the tissues.
What this means to us is rapid aging; damage to DNA, proteins, and lipids; and cancer and degenerative diseases, including arthritis. Colostrum can help clean up these
waste products and counteract their negative effects on the body. It contains a number of powerful antioxidants, including glutathione, the most powerful antioxidant known, and its chemical
precursors. Glutathione itself is not absorbed through the intestinal wall, but the glutathione in colostrum still plays a major role in maintaining gastrointestinal health.
The precursors, cystine, glycine, and glutamic acid, are absorbed and contribute to glutathione production in the body. Colostrum reduces respiratory burst output in
white blood cells (polymorpho nuclear leukocytes), which has both an antioxidant and an anti-inflammatory effect. PRPs contribute to the antioxidant effect of colostrum by down regulating lipid per
oxidation, inhibiting glutathione depletion, and reducing intracellular levels of ROS (reactive oxygen species). Lactoferrin also has antioxidant properties, preventing lipid peroxidation. Haemopexin
is a protein found in milk and colostrum that strongly binds haem, a low molecular weight form of iron that takes part in oxidative reactions in tissues. Haemopexin can inhibit these reactions by up
to 90%.