


Rather than looking at colostrum as just a substance with a lot of wonderful chemicals in it, Dr. This astute conclusion is something my mentor, medical anthropologist Dr. A million years of evolution has taught us the importance of passive immunity it’s the reason that all mammals, except humans, can exist at all. Modern medicine is beginning to understand and accept the concept of immune and gastrointestinal health’s being interdependent, yet the majority of practitioners are still in the dark about colostrum. Hippocrates said that all disease begins in the gut. No longer faced with the absolute certainty of her death, I have vigorously pursued research to reintroduce this biologic neutraceutical back into human use ever since. Thanks to a colleague who was a naturopathic physician, bovine colostrum turned my wife’s life around completely. This was common practice in the 1950s, and it demonstrated to me just how important the human immune system is to our healthy existence and just how little physicians really understand about it. My wife suffered with no functional immune system after having her thymus gland irradiated as a child. I discovered bovine colostrum for my ailing wife more than two and a half decades ago. This magical, first food of life for humans and all mammals is colostrum, and it’s been around since the beginning of mammalian life on this planet. In fact, we have not scientist nor medical doctor nor herbalist but Mother Nature to thank for this amazing gift. The good news is that we do have a solution, one that has been around long before penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 and before Felix Hoffmann first synthesized aspirin for Bayer in 1897. That’s the bad news about leaky gut syndrome. This deadly combination of pain medications and antibiotic abuse has created a public health crisis, the likes of which physicians are certainly ill prepared to treat and definitely unable to diagnose responsibly. Compounding the problem is the prolific and unnecessary use of antibiotics, which led to the creation of “superbugs,” antibiotic-resistant pathogens populating the gastrointestinal tracts of the naïve.

Taking pain medication, whether over-the-counter NSAIDs or prescription drugs, has unwittingly condemned them to an existence with leaky gut and all of its ramifications. These are frightening statistics, but what’s even more frightening is that the majority of these same people are suffering from chronic diseases caused by leaky gut syndrome. One hundred million Americans suffer from chronic pain, which equates to approximately half of the adult population.
