~Over 2,000 years ago, the father of modern medicine was quoted, “All disease begins in the gut.” Though we know that certain diseases can obviously have other causes, Hippocrates was onto something and modern science now proves that when the digestive system fails, so too does the rest of the body. The modern gut epidemic happens to be a misunderstood syndrome called “leaky gut”. Fortunately, nature designed a super food called colostrum for the very purpose of healing a leaky gut.
What is Leaky Gut?
In our chemical toxin rich modern world, everyone has at least some degree of leaky gut syndrome. For those genetically fortunate, they will likely never notice any significant effects of it. For others, quality of life is significantly diminished.
The intestinal lining is only one cell thick. This lining acts as a barrier to keep undigested food particles from absorbing into the body. Once food particles are fully broken down, the intestinal lining lets them safely into the body.
When something happens to damage the thin lining of the intestines, undigested food particles slip through the lining of the intestines and into the body. There are many things that can corrode the gut lining. The most common cause, eating food that you are allergic too stimulates the immune system to attack the food in the gut, as your immune system shoots its “missiles” at the food, the gut lining is also damaged as collateral. This is all it takes to set off a cascade of chaos once the delicate intestinal lining is initially damaged.
This is leaky gut syndrome in its essence. Literally just as it sounds, the gut becomes leaky, like a bad bouncer at a bar, letting dangerous criminals inside.
How Leaky Gut Slowly Kills You
Let’s say that you eat a slice of glutinous bread which causes gut inflammation, The inflammation damages your gut lining which “opens the flood gates”. Now undigested gluten proteins are making it into your bloodstream. The body looks at these food particles as invaders and constantly targets them for elimination, just as it would treat a virus. So now you feel like you have a minor flu/viral bug every day.
You continue eating bread which only causes more inflammation in the gut lining. Now tiny bits of every food you eat are leaking through your gut. As your body targets these food particles in your blood stream, you begin to develop minor allergies other foods that you eat.
Now every time you eat you are inflaming your gut lining and the cascade of inflammation continues. Since inflammation causes all types of disease, you can see how leaky gut syndrome is taking both years off of your life and quality of life away from your years.
Why Conventional Leaky Gut Treatment Almost Never Works
The standard treatment for healing the gut is about as rigorous as Marine Corps boot camp. It involves completely avoiding allergenic foods (you probably don’t even know which foods), and cycling all other foods eaten every few days. With leaky gut, you have to cycle foods because if you eat the same foods several days in a row, the allergic inflammatory response grows. (There are more rules to follow but that is for another article)
Now I am the most devout health nut I know, and years ago I couldn’t heal my minor food allergies with this strategy. It is just way to hard too eat completely different foods every day and is unlikely to be effective unless you use expensive blood testing every week.
I had to find another answer to heal my gut.
How Colostrum Shuts Down Leaky Gut At Its Root Cause
All mammal mothers feed their newborns colostrum (first milk). Why? Colostrum, with its 86 growth factors, is designed by nature to initially generate a robust gut lining and seal up the digestive system so that the baby can fully absorb other foods without developing food allergies and leaky gut.
Without colostrum, the baby mammal will either die, or live the rest of its shortened life with inflammatory, malnourishment and immune deficiency issues.
As mentioned, colostrum contains 86 unique growth factors that immediately act to begin to generate a strong gut lining. In the cause of adult humans, colostrum does work to regenerate the digestive lining. Though it is designed for babies, it 100% still works for adults of any age.
Growth factors are only half of colostrum’s leaky gut healing capacity. In fact, without the proline-rich polypeptides in colostrum, the growth factors could not heal leaky gut on its own. Why?
This is where the proline-rich polypeptides come in the clutch.
Proline-Rich Polypeptides SHUT-DOWN Inflammatory Response
When you have leaky gut, food allergies or any auto immune disease, you are dealing with a TH2 cytokine response. TH2 cytokines are the white blood immune cells that are attacking and damaging your fragile gut lining. While this still happening, you will never heal leaky gut. You can regenerate gut lining but these cytokines will just tear them right back down.
Colostrum was designed by nature with this in mind. Colostrum contains proline-rich peptides that selectively shut down the allergenic TH2 cytokine production while allowing the other harmless white blood cells to continue their good work.
Since colostrum immediately shuts down the damaging TH2 cells AND powers regeneration of your gut lining with its 86 growth factors, you will rapidly begin healing your leaky gut and relieving your inflammatory symptoms from the very first dosage of colostrum.
How To Best Use Colostrum To Heal Leaky Gut
Though you could probably eventually heal your leaky gut by eating colostrum along with every allergenic meal, you will heal the fastest if you avoid your biggest food sensitivities.
Worry not though! Earlier in my life I couldn’t touch milk without blowing up a toilet! I avoided all dairy for a year and super-dosed colostrum for 365 days. Now, I can drink a full glass of milk or even eat cheese cake and my bowel movements remain a healthy smooth inflammation-free log! Still, I keep dairy consumption to a minimum as a preventative measure.
Without a doubt, colostrum healed my leaky gut and all food allergies I previously had. Colostrum “sealed up” my gut and I have to say that life is much easier without leaky gut/food allergies.
Summary
If you have leaky gut syndrome (most everyone does to a small degree), don’t try to win without a high quality colostrum supplement. Remember, healing leaky gut is the God-given job of colostrum, let it do what it is here for.
And when choosing a colostrum supplement, make sure you are getting grass-fed, cold processed, 6-hour harvested and whole, non-defatted colostrum. This is how colostrum is designed by nature to work and when countless companies cook, process and refine colostrum it drives me nuts.
There are only TWO companies which pass these rigorous quality requirement. Actually both of these companies source the exact same cold processed, grass-fed, 6-hour whole colostrum. These high quality, passion driven companies are Immune Tree and Surthrival.
If you are interested in bodybuilding or gaining muscle mass in general, check out my article about how good colostrum is for that too here.
If you want to read about how lactoferrin in colostrum is great for weight loss you can click here
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