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If you purchase any products from Karl please mention that your referrer was "detailshere" so he knows who sent you.

It is my intention to tell the world about this man and his products. I am using the Super Growlife Plus formula myself now for blood pressure reduction and toxic metal elimination; I was told by other to "expect miracles"; I will keep you posted on my progress.

Karl Loren
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Researcher & Author
Vibrant Life
1831 North Bel Aire Drive
Burbank, CA 91504

Phones:  (800) 225-2308
(818) 558-7099
FAX (818) 558-7299

Karl Loren:  karl@karlloren.com 

Karl's Policy on answering mail, and personal information abut him at:  http://www.insteadof.com/KarlLoren/index.html

 http://www.oralchelation.com    Vibrant Life main site
http://www.oralchelation.net       Karl Loren's Book, Life Flow One
http://www.bulkmsm.com            Vibrant Life MSM web site
http://www.supercolostrum.com    Karl Loren's Information about the Immune System
http://www.arthritisinformation.net    Information about arthritis
http://www.insteadof.com        Herbal Cigarette Project

April 4, 2001 Who is this man?

Who Is  This Man, Karl Loren?

First the simple things.  I, Karl Loren, will be seventy years old in May 2001. The picture above was taken in February 2001.  Next, this entire Wednesday Letter, like all fifty of them that have gone before, is the exclusive creation of me, Karl Loren, personally.  Sometimes I write in the first person, using "I" and other times I have written in the third person.  Today I am celebrating almost seventy years of joyous living, writing very personally about myself.

This is a very special Wednesday Letter, about me.

First, you will find as you read this that I am not modest.  So, let's throw away any pretense of such!

I very much enjoy writing and have so many compliments on my Wednesday Letters, and on my 13,000 web pages on ten web sites that I know people are enjoying what I have to say -- more accurately, finding my words helpful.   That is all a man can do, I think, is to try to help, and succeed at it.   So, let's get on with this Letter.

My Mission In Life

I want to help.  Further, I want to help one person at a time.  I view "help" as a very personal thing.  While I have 13,000 pages on my ten web sites, and thousands of people can read and be helped, my greatest joy is touching one person at a time, personally, and finding out that I have, indeed helped.

I had that mission earlier in life, but it is only during the past several years that I have felt that I was succeeding.

I got started in this vitamin business twenty years ago when my mother died.  I got that fateful phone call about 11 PM one night in November 1981.  I was in California, she had been in surgery already some six hours in Cleveland, Ohio.  When the doctor finished the surgery, he called me to tell me that my mother had been in surgery, and "It doesn't look good!"

What do you do with a simple sentence like that?

It's like the woman who goes for a breast examination.  How can the doctor tell her, "You have a suspicious lump?"  How can that doctor, a short while later, say, "That lump is a malignant cancer?"

How?

It is a truism, but every person dies, and most of us face the moment of death with some understanding that it is about to happen.  Many get the death pronouncement from some doctor, "You have malignant cancer and it is terminal."

Or, "Your mother has slipped into a coma and won't wake up!"  We hear it more often about others.

How does a civil human tell another human that he or she is about to die?

This is the most dramatic communication that can exist for one person -- "You have a terminal disease."

Surely the man who comes along, defying all medical authority, and says, "You don't have to die!" is walking on hallowed ground.   I have very, very often been in exactly that position -- telling someone, "You don't have to die!"   Strangely enough, as I exactly did with my mother, I have also often been in the position to say, "You have the right to die if you wish to leave!"  and ... "Your mother has the right to die if she wishes!"

One of the most poignant articles I ever wrote, one that has brought many people to tears, and about which I have had many compliments, is my article, "Do You Have The Right To Die?"  If you haven't read that, I urge you to click and read it now -- against the time of need!  The story there is mostly about the death of my mother-in-law, but I freely gave my own mother my permission to leave in peace.  She was then still unwilling to die until her visiting grandson also gave his permission!

I think it is important for each of us to recognize that death is just as natural as life.  In fact, I have also written to answer the question, "What Is Natural Death?"

So death is not to be ignored even when we may spend much more of time seeking health.  I am still working on a total understanding of "health," or as I prefer to call it, "wellness."  I have much more to do on both understanding and explaining "wellness" but my early thoughts on this are in an article called "What Is Wellness?"

Most of my philosophical writings are listed here.  These are published as a series called "Viewpoint," representing MY viewpoint on various issues.  I hope you'll read them all, and then contact me about any of them.

I answer, personally, every personal message I receive!

This is an incredible pledge on my part!

It would be impossible to investigate the billions of web pages in the world, but I'll venture that nowhere in these billions is there a single person who has made the pledge I make to you.  Oh you might get a response from SOMEONE, but with my 13,000 pages, every page includes a message form that comes directly to me -- the big cheese in our organization -- I think this is unique.  I am the founder.  True, my dear wife, Jean Ross, has been at my side all along, but it is I who formulated the products we sell, and compiled all 13,000 web pages.  You get MY personal answer when you write to me.  You have my home street address on every page; you have my toll free number on every page.  You get an almost instant response from us -- something unheard of on the web.

I promise to answer, personally, every personal message I receive!

That's it!

Many people don't believe it.  I get messages all the time, saying, "I can't really believe I'll get a real person answering me!"  They do.  One of my biggest frustrations dealing on the net is the impossibility of reaching a real human being -- who will respond, personally.  It just doesn't happen. 

I also answer almost every message within 24 hours -- usually in less than 4 hours -- sometimes within minutes.  The speed of my replies surprises many even as much as the fact that they got a personal message. 

I don't respond to rude or nasty messages.  I never respond to form letter messages.   It is NOT unusual for me to respond in a tone of strong antagonism when someone writes in a very critical way.  For instance, I often get personal messages from doctors, or such others, who assume that I will never respond and launch into a violent attack on my ideas and writings.

I've converted a few of those into good friends -- despite the fact that usually I've started with a response which is just as harsh toward them as theirs was toward me.  I happen to be in the middle of such a dialogue just as I write this -- this with a Medical Doctor who first attacked me, and now eager to learn from me.

I have one such set of exchanges published (most I don't publish) in which I repeatedly told this medical student that he would be far better off in life if he quit medical school -- and told him exactly why.  Eventually he called me his friend.  You might find this exchange very intriguing -- click here to read it.

I've put up a central point about my personal responses -- click here -- and on this page you'll also find links to photos of most of my family, my dogs and other personal things about me.  In short, I am very personal about my crusade.  I want to sell you my vitamins, but I am intensely interested in your personal condition, and any help I can give.

If you haven't ever written to me, please find some good excuse to do so.  Just click right here!  I have engaged in as many as 300 back-and-forth messages with ONE person, so if you and get onto a subject of interest to both of us -- you may find the exchange exhilarating.  That one person, 300 messages?  He has traveled TWICE from India to spend time with me in California and we are the very best of friends.  He developed one of our successful products, and you'll find that product, and his photograph here.

Phone calls are about the same.  I don't answer the phone at our place, but I will always take your incoming call if I'm not on some other call.  I sometimes talk for an hour or more with a complete stranger who just wants to know, "Can you explain what oral chelation is?"

I've spent some time looking at what makes me unique on this planet.

One important characteristic I have had ever since I can remember is the willingness to disagree.  You probably know many "disagreeable" children (or even adults) and I probably was one of the worst when I was growing up.  According to some, I still am!

Very fortunately, my parents did NOT suppress me.  I had the courage and willingness to disagree all through my youth.

I well recall that I left my religious heritage to join a Church very different from my family; I then drifted away from that Church to become an Agnostic by the time I was about 30.  I re-discovered God and spirituality when I was 40, and consider myself, now, a very religious person.  But, I've gone through many changes of this sort in my life.  In those changes I had no trouble disagreeing with people -- even close to me.  I have no difficulty, also, changing my mind -- disagreeing with my past positions on things.  One of the greatest of these was when I switched from attacking the use of oral EDTA, to including it in my formulas. That full explanation was presented on the web as it unfolded.

I also have no difficulty admitting that I was wrong, or that I have changed my position on something.

I also have had no reluctance to try new things.  I have lived and traveled in more than 35 countries -- taking my 6 children to Africa and traveling all over Africa over a three-year period.  I then lived in Asia for a few years -- traveling in many Asian countries.

I also tend to get whatever I go after.  I wanted a job in the Kennedy White House, and got it.

I wanted to go to the Harvard Graduate School of  Business, and graduated from there with an MBA degree.

When I was in a dead-end job during my Army term, I set my sights on working for a general and became his Aide-de-Camp.

In the not too distant pass I had a lady-friend who, I was told, had terminal breast cancer.  This was long before I knew much about cancer treatments.  On her own she discovered a cancer clinic in Mexico, went there and came back "cured."  I had little awareness of such things, then, but I decided to take a tourist visit to Tijuana one day, and go meet this "healer," Jimmy Keller.

That was the beginning of a revolution in my life.  I learned that cancer was being treated in the US, invariably, with technology that was mostly designed to cause cancer.  About that time I started my career as a radio talk show host.  I wanted to talk about this cancer clinic in Mexico, and proposed some sort of sponsorship to Jimmy.  As we discussed this he told me that partly because the poor phone service into Mexico, he needed a "US Liaison Office" in the US -- a place people could call to get information about his clinic, and directions, etc., without having to go through an international operator and the chance of not making contact.

I offered to take this job, and he then warned me that the previous three persons he had who took this job -- two women, and one was his son --- had each been arrested on trumped up charges, and held in jail until they would sign documents "admitting" that Jimmy Keller was a fraud.  In one case, when the woman refused to sign such a false statement, the police hauled in her aged parents also -- until she caved in and betrayed Jimmy.

He wanted to know why I might not do the same.

I just couldn't imagine caving in to an extortion threat.

I recalled when I was about 19, my father got me a concession in an amusement park -- a park in Ohio that did not allow entrance to blacks.  I had very different views on such matters, and after I was in the park, with my concession, I started agitating that it was WRONG to deny blacks entrance to the park.  This was long before civil rights became "politically correct."

I was thrown out of the park, much to the embarrassment to my father, and the loss of money to me.

But, there didn't seem to be any alternative to me -- principal has always been very important to me.

So, I took on the Public Relations job for Jimmy Keller, used my toll free number to receive calls from people who had been told they had terminal cancer.  I gave them the data I had about Jimmy's very high success rate.

During that time I was busy, also, being a radio talk show host, on Station KIEV in Los Angeles.  I had Jimmy Keller on my show twice weekly -- from 4 AM to 6 AM every Wednesday and Friday morning.   I had an extremely successful radio show -- thirty hours live on the air every week.   It was a shock then, but not now in retrospect, that my constant interviews of Jimmy, live in LA, caught the attention of some powerful forces that didn't want people to hear that cancer could be so easily cured.

One morning, when I had completed my night-time show, I was handed my pink slip.  I was told that I would be off the air in two weeks, that Jimmy was off, that I could not talk about Jimmy Keller even one more day, and that if I talked about why I was getting kicked off the air, I would be dropped within seconds by the engineer in charge.  Since I was paying thousands of dollars direct to the radio station for my time, and selling my own advertising -- it was clear that money was not the issue with the radio station.   They made more money from me than they did before or after my show was on the air.

You can guess that I was angry.  After several days I finally calmed down enough to go talk to the owners of the station. They said, "Karl, if either of us had cancer, we would go to Jimmy's Clinic.  That is not the issue.  The issue is that WE got a phone call from OUR lawyer in Washington DC.  HE got a call from some official in the Federal Communications Commission.  He tells me that if Jimmy Keller stays on the air, we will lose our radio license, and that in any event, you have to go!"

I am not sorry at all that I had Jimmy as my guest.  He was later kidnapped out of Mexico by US Marshals, stood trial in Texas, found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years.  I visited him in Federal Prison.  He was released on probation after two years in prison, on condition that he would no longer talk about cancer, or give people advice or treatments.  He did that anyway, and is now back in prison.  The world lost a great humanitarian.

It is interesting that while he was in Federal Prison he worked in the kitchen.  The "prison doctor" was a "regular doctor" in the nearby town -- he was on a contract to come to the prison only when needed, so he wasn't a full-time employee.  He got to be very friendly with Jimmy, and had no difficulty accepting Jimmy's advice on various medical treatments for his patients.

Don't you wonder how many humanitarians are still trying to help, even from inside their jail cells!

I moved through this period representing Jimmy while he was still operating in Mexico without threat or harm.

In more modern times I am very proud that the American Heart Association has threatened to sue me -- I immediately published their threat letter -- click here -- and my reply.  When you read my reply you will probably understand why the American Heart Association now leaves me alone -- seriously.

I have published an article that should demolish literally billions of dollars now being spent on AIDS research and treatment.  I have yet to have a single doctor, or scientist, prove the falsity of my claims -- AIDS is a political disease.  It is not being approached scientifically.  It is being approached with the preconception that only a drug can solve the problem.  That is false.  Click here.

I have demonstrated courage and the willingness to disagree with powerful forces in our society.

You can count on my integrity when it comes to my publication of the truth as I find it.

Detection of False Claims

When my mother died I naturally asked the doctor "What, exactly, caused my mother's death?"   His answer, "No one knows the reasons for heart disease!"   That didn't set well with me, but I was nothing more than a grieving son, a businessman; he was the authority on the block.  I didn't argue, but I didn't agree.   I started looking!

I started looking for books on heart disease.  My mother's death was sudden and quite unacceptable to me.  I wanted to understand why she had died.

I did find some books that said, essentially, "No one knows the causes of heart disease!"

I kept looking for different ideas on heart disease -- until I stumbled, apparently accidentally, on the book that changed my life.  It was "Bypassing Bypass," by Dr. Elmer Cranton.  I was amazed.  He explained in simple logic that I could understand why the "old" theories about heart disease were not valid, what the actual cause of heart disease was, and how to prevent it.

I soon found that the great mass of medical doctors wouldn't even talk to you about Dr. Cranton's ideas.

I started to feel the hairs rise on the back of my head!

I began to feel that there was some sort of cover-up -- some sort of conspiracy to prevent people from learning the truth about heart disease.

I kept reading and eventually started in the business of formulating and selling an oral chelation formula -- based on the principles described in Dr. Cranton's Book.

When I was in college I took several of the standard IQ tests -- the fact that my IQ measured at 131 was simply a "datum" to me.  It's like you look at your foot, note that there are five toes, and it is not a big deal.    You don't go around counting toes on other people -- you see some that are smart -- some that are dumb and don't much think of IQ as some distinctive part of your personality.  I did have teachers often tell me that I should be accomplishing more, based on my aptitude and IQ scores.

I realized that my IQ placed me in the upper one percent of all people, but I still had to put my pants on one leg at a time.  I had lots of fun with the logic problems one of my professors was fond of handing out.

Over many years I have engaged in various actions that were designed to increase my IQ, my ability to apply logic, and even vocabulary and grammar.  My IQ now measures at 151 on a scale where the theoretical top score is 155. 

Not too long ago I spent more than two years, 15 hours of classroom time per week, in an intensive course to improve my vocabulary and grammar understanding.  My writing skills may have been high "naturally" but I have worked hard to greatly enhance them.

As I said above, I'm not modest, but I realize that my ability at seeing false logic and missing logic is very high.  I read a book, or a health claim and detect stuff, apparently, far more quickly and easily than almost anyone on the planet.  I turned this skill in to the study of the Internal Revenue Code at one time, and established myself as the foremost expert in the country on a small piece of the tax code.  I've applied this ability and interest, now, in the field of health.

These abilities pay off for me, of course, but also for my customers and readers!

As I did further research on heart disease I was aghast!  I discovered that I needed every ounce of that "ability" to disagree with authority.  I found myself easily able to see the logic of Dr. Cranton's concepts of heart disease -- and I found many flaws in the stories being told by conventional doctors about heart disease.  But I soon realized that I was in a tiny, tiny minority of people who so clearly could see these truths!

I started writing, finally, and published my Book, Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease, in 1994.  I published that entire Book on the web several years later, and since then I have added several thousand more pages of supporting data that wouldn't fit in the paper version.  You can visit and read that book, click on the cover.

I've written so much about heart disease that I won't repeat much more of it here, but as I kept researching, and writing on the web, I realized that the world of traditional health care was in terrible shape and that I needed to do something about it.

I started publishing my opinions and my research findings in an electronic newsletter, called The Wednesday Letter.  I took that name simply because it was published on Wednesdays.  Initially it was published EVERY Wednesday, but  I was not able to attain the quality of writing on that schedule so changed to a monthly newsletter -- which you are reading now. The Wednesday Letter is published on the first Wednesday of every month.  I haven't missed an issue for several years.

I enjoy writing these Wednesday Letters -- a great deal.  I think of them as a wealth of material that is vital for anyone to read and understand.

I urge you to click here to go to the page with the titles and descriptions of all 50 of the past issues of the Wednesday Letter, look them over and click on a few to see what they cover.

Heart Disease

How does someone become interested in heart disease?

I just seem to have a great ability to detect the lack of logic in things.  When the doctor who watched my mother die (for lack of a tiny amount of copper in her diet -- she died of an aneurism), I felt angry.  The doctor SHOULD be the person to bring science and wisdom to the field of health.  Instead he brought ignorance and false information to my mother's side.

She died needlessly.

My father also died of malpractice -- never to even be claimed, much less proved.  His wife (my stepmother) did not "believe" in vitamins -- thought you could get all you needed in your food.  My father would have been willing to take my vitamins, but his wife said, "No!"  Even then he had doctors adding more and more drugs to his daily intake, until he finally died of a complication of too many conflicting drugs.  Yet, his widow "knew" that he had the best of care.  I knew he was killed by careless ignorance.

But, in my business, no matter how real these matters are, you soon learn that the great bulk of society doesn't see it your way.

The great bulk of society would never discover that a few pennies worth of copper added to the diet would probably prevent an aneurism (aneurysm: alternative spelling).

It is not that the data is hidden -- it is in plain sight if you go looking.  I use a professional search engine, called "Medline" that looks through some 15,000,000 scientific, peer-reviewed scientific studies, published over the past 40 years.

As I looked more and more at heart disease -- the number one killer in America, I felt more and more that there was some vast conspiracy to push exactly the wrong treatments onto sick people.  This realization grew the more research I did.

Along the way I also realized that so-called "health insurance" was nothing more than "assurance of disease," since the only types of treatments approved with "health insurance" were designed to make the drug companies wealthy and the patient sick.

What do you do when you finally conclude that literally thousands of highly trained, very affluent medical doctors, surgeons, cardiologists, are all telling their patients lies about heart disease? What do you do when you have the right answer, but when few will agree?

I had no choice, it seems.  I started this mission of bringing the truth to the world.  I won't put more of that here, but I've written literally thousands of pages on this subject -- and am yet to receive any single logical claim that I am presenting false data.

Every doctor who has attacked me has either given up and gone crawling away, or become converted by my thousands of pages of data.

How long will it take for the world to catch on?  I fear that it will take many decades.  In the meantime there is no reason why YOU should suffer at the hands of the ignorant doctors.

Read as much of my stuff as you need to, quiz me as critically as you wish, but then enhance your life and start on the oral chelation route to better health.   Visit my home page for oral chelation.  Visit my more technical home page for heart disease.

The false data about heart disease can be summarized easily:

• Foods high in cholesterol (such as eggs and butter) cause high cholesterol in the blood

• High cholesterol in the blood causes heart disease and then death

• The solution is, first, to avoid foods high in cholesterol.

• Second, if you don't have the will-power to stay on this proper diet, get psychiatric counseling to overcome your bad compulsions to eat such as eggs and butter

• Third, only if the earlier two don't succeed, admit that you are a failed dieter, a failed patient of therapy, and then, reluctantly, the doctor will prescribe an expensive cholesterol-lowering drug that you will have to take for the rest of your life.

• Finally, if all this fails you, and you have blocked arteries, you can always have by-pass surgery to save your life.

Contrast this false data with the truth:

• Foods high in cholesterol do NOT cause high cholesterol in your blood. The liver manufactures cholesterol.  If you eat high-cholesterol foods, the liver makes less cholesterol.  If you eat low-cholesterol foods, the liver makes more cholesterol.  You diet has virtually nothing to do with blood-cholesterol level.

• High cholesterol in the blood is NOT a good indicator for death from heart disease -- many people with high cholesterol NEVER have heart disease, and many die from heart disease who don't have high cholesterol.

• Psychiatric counseling has never proven successful in getting people to change their diets.

• The cholesterol-lowering drugs succeed in lowering cholesterol levels, but do not succeed in reducing death rates from using the drugs.

• The American Heart Association has published, for many years, false statistics claiming the success of the recommended treatment.  I have helped force them to admit that these methods of treatment have been failures.

• Bypass surgery has always been a fraud, but it is now being exposed even by the popular media as a fraud, in order to make more money available for drugs.  Click here to read that story.

The truth about the cause and remedy for heart disease is simple:

• The plaque which doctors talk about -- the stuff that clogs your arteries?  It is actually on the inside of cells, not caked up on the outside of the cells.  The measuring devices used, like the MRI, cannot tell the difference between calcium INSIDE a cell and calcium on the outside of the cell.

• So, what is called "plaque" and is claimed to be on the inner lining of the artery, is in fact just a few millimeters away, inside a cell.  As the cell takes in nutrients, including calcium, and when that cell becomes weaker, the cell can't get rid of the calcium, and THAT calcium is what the doctors call "plaque."  Indeed, this excess calcium inside the cells causes a reduction in blood circulation, and heart disease.

• Since the calcium is INSIDE the cell, why does the cell become weakened so that it cannot get rid of this excess calcium  == by itself?

The cells in the arteries (and everywhere in the body) are bombarded constantly by "free radicals" which damage the cell -- make it weaker so that it accumulates excess calcium.  Free radicals are like atoms with an odd number of electrons in the outer ring.

• The free radicals in your body are greatly increased in number and activity because of toxic metals in your body. When a free radical hits, for instance, a piece of bone, the free radical might be "stopped" and one new free radical created.   When a free radical hits a tiny piece of toxic metal, instead of one new free radical being created, many thousands are created.  Each of these, in turn, can hit some piece of toxic metal, and multiply even further.

• Thus toxic metals in the body greatly increase the damage done in the body by free radicals.

• This damage is the entire explanation of all heart disease and cancer -- and most other health problems.

• It is theoretically impossible for a "drug" to remove these toxic metals, and thereby reduce free radical activity.

• Certain vitamins have been known for a long time to neutralize free radicals, and thus prevent the damage done by them.

• Other vitamins (in my oral chelation formula) actually remove the toxic metals from the body.

• Thus, this formula removes metals, thereby reducing free radical numbers and activity, thereby reducing the damage done to the cells in the arteries by free radicals, thereby allowing the cells to function more normally, to expel calcium and other garbage that accumulates in a weak cell.

• Thus, blood flow improves!

The process of removing metals from the body is called "chelation."  It is done either intravenously or orally.  Click here to read a comparison of the two methods.

I am probably the most prolific writer on the web on this subject, but there are many other doctors and scientists who say the same things.

Heart disease kills more people than any other disease, yet the claimed cause and the offered treatments are simply wrong!  The explanation and proper treatment for heart disease are listed above in just a few lines.

I have a book, more than 2,000 pages in its web version, that explains this concept -- with links to many pages of scientific studies.  (Click on the cover of the Book, above.)

How About Cancer -- The Second Most Deadly Killer?

Cancer is caused by free radicals.

The free radicals that damage cells in the arteries are damaging parts of the body that normally never get cancer -- so THAT damage is to make the cell weaker.

But, free radicals that hit other parts of the body can cause a cell to mutate -- and that's all cancer is -- a mutating cell.  Cells that mutate and grow more rapidly than they should == cancer.

If you reduce the number and activity of free radicals, you should greatly reduce any risk of cancer.

After a cancer has started, free radicals don't particularly make it grow faster, so oral chelation would not help cure a cancer , but it sure would remove those toxic metals that lead to the beginning of cancer.

Other Things!

As I have continued my research in the field of health, I found other truths, including the benefit of a South American herb, the bark from the how bones grow, and about the only form of calcium that actually reverses bone loss.

I have developed the ultimate weapon against all disease -- proper diet -- and I have spent hundreds of hours in research on this.  You will be a bit surprised, I think, when you read about the "Karl Loren Diet" in among my 3,000 pages related to diet.

Finally, my good friend,  Dr. Ayyangar, in India, has introduced me to the world of Methyl Sulfonyl Methane -- MSM. We now sell that by the ton, at the lowest prices of any web site in the world.

Oral Chelation -- The Ultimate Weapon Against Ignorance and Disease!

You can read all about my solution to heart disease (and even cancer) by simply clicking here -- to read the history and background of something called "oral chelation."

There is no single person on the planet who has studied this subject so well, and published so many pages of truth on the Internet.  My ten web sites get more monthly visitors than all other web sites that promote oral chelation combined.

Most of the "other" oral chelation formulas are either frauds or rip-offs, and I have documented this allegation  -- click here.

My web sites are fabulously successful.  Here, published in April 2001, are the number of visitor-pages on just one of my web sites for the last four months.   This stat measures, for instance, 92,553 people each of whom requested one page, or one person who requested 92.553 pages -- or some combination in between.

This is far more successful than 99.9% of any retail eCommerce web sites on the planet.

Web (www.oralchelation.com) Monthly Report

Each unit () represents 2 000 requests for pages, or part thereof.

   month: pages:
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Dec 2000: 67305:
Jan 2001: 58558:
Feb 2001: 71998:
Mar 2001: 92553:
 

What's Next?

Well, as I said above, I'll be seventy years old in just another few weeks -- May 21st.   I'm going camping on the Kern.  I have done this several other times -- I go white water rafting down the Kern River. Click here to see a picture of ME, and Jean Ross, just going over "Devil's Hole" where many rafters tip and spill.   That's me at the front, left of the picture.  Jean is in number two position on the right of the photo.   I had come down this river in a solo kayak after the time of the photo -- up into the air, out of the kayak, and down deep into Devil's Hole -- then up joyously into the sunshine.   I welcome you to join me.  Most of my family will be there, including Maia Mulvena and Joe Graciano -- and their families.  They will all be staying in tents!  Jean and I are going to be in a comfortable cabin right next to the campgrounds!

We will have our two dogs with us.  We'll be away from Vibrant Life for only a couple days, so you shouldn't have any real delay in getting your orders processed and shipped.

I'm using a new tracking service, started with this newsletter.

Whatever links you click on will be counted, statistically, so that I can start to learn what items are most popular with my readers.

Next month, May 2001, I hope to introduce a brand new product.

Cancer - "Transfer Factor"
Colostrum
Hyperimmune Milk

by Karl Loren

Here is a simple explanation of what transfer factor is and how it works.

As you move along in life, you bump into various germs, bacteria, viruses, fungus particles and other assorted bad characters. You "catch a cold" -- usually because some germ or virus has gotten into your body and the body was not able to get rid of the germ before it multiplied and gave you a runny nose and sniffles!

If you are in great healthy shape, that bacteria may get inside somehow but your immune system attacks the bug before the bug can even turn around.

The first time one of those bugs comes in -- they can cause you to get sick.  But, your immune system is working hard to manufacturer "anti-germs" (also called "antibodies") that attack the bugs.  It takes your immune system quite a while to do that. In some cases it may take 10 to 14 days to manufacture the new antibodies. Your temperature may already be high because of the infection. 

The Invading Bugs!

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When you're invaded, the bacteria begin to multiply at the site. Why not?  There is warmth, plenty of food and darkness.  As the bacteria multiply, there would be a very slight swelling in that area and the immune system starts to work -- recognizing the bacteria as harmful. Immune cells cause small blood vessels near the "clump" of growing bacteria to widen (dilate). The increased blood flow leads to redness and warmth. Much more swelling occurs when immune cells cause blood vessels to leak fluid into the surrounding tissue.  (The electron microscope picture to the left is Enterococcus Bacterium.)

As the antibodies start to kill the bugs, your temperature will go lower.  DO NOT STOP there -- this is the primary mistake of most antibiotic administration.  You quit too soon -- all the bugs are not yet killed -- the antibiotic is stopped -- those bugs not yet killed are now not likely to be killed by the same antibiotic -- you need a new antibiotic -- all of this because doctors don't insist that you take the antibiotic properly.  There is such a constant demand for "new" antibiotics that every drug company wants to get on this gravy train.  Sometimes they get caught making bad ones!  Click here to see how Eli Lilly, again, proved itself to be one of the worst drug companies from which to buy anything.  Some of the new antibiotics simply turn out to be killers.  Pfizer's antibiotic, Trovan, seems to cause liver failure -- so Pfizer lost a billion-dollar winner in the antibiotic sweepstakes!  Click here for that story.

The next time that same bug (more technically called an antigen) comes into your body, those anti-germs (antibodies) that were made the first time, are ready to attack instantly.  You don't have to wait for the body to start manufacturing some of them.  Some of those antibodies start attacking immediately while the body then starts making more.  You might not need more if the first attack was enough to kill the bugs.

Your immune system does NOT recognize toxic metals in your body!  Your immune system does not handle such problems -- it only handles "bugs!"

The immune system does NOT handle toxic lead in your body. That is another job -- for detoxification, not for a stronger immune system.  However, toxic metals, such as toxic lead, can cause a tremendous increase in the number of "free radicals" in your body and THEY, in turn, cause cancer and other diseases.  Once the toxic metal causes cancer, then the cancer is subject to control by the immune system.

The first rule of health is like part of the Hippocratic Oath:  "First Do No Harm!"  The first rule would be, don't allow toxins and bugs into your body.  The next step, once you have allowed that stuff to enter, is to get rid of it.  The immune system is your first line of defense -- drugs are usually effective on a short-term basis, but often damage the immune system so that it is no longer available and you are all the more dependent on drugs in the future.

The immune system is very basic to your health, but even more basic, of course, would be to NOT put poisons and toxic substances into your body in the first place.  You should also find a good way to get them out if they are there now.  The standard approach to ridding yourself of toxic metals is with an oral chelation formula.  Don't overlook, either the remarkable ability of Methyl Sulfonyl Methane to reverse malignant cancers into benign tumors!

The immune system goes after "organic" things -- mostly alive, like germs, but also it goes after protein substances that are not alive.  While a virus is NOT alive, your immune system should be able to handle any of them.  Also parasites and fungus problems.  You will find that traditional medicine almost completely ignores the immune system -- thinking that the only solution for a sore throat is an antibiotic.  (Click Here to read a traditional description and remedy for a sore throat.)

So, every time you get a NEW bug, they body has to go through this fairly slow process of making a NEW anti-germ for that particular bug.  If it DOES take 10 to 14 days to make the new antibody, that is how much time the bug has had to swarm through your body, leaving little fast-growing families everywhere -- perhaps a joint that later becomes arthritic.

Antibodies Are Your Friends

The Antibody! He and his brothers are ready to fight the good fight!

After several years you can see that you would have a whole army of anti-germs, each one different from the other -- each one having been used at least once in your body to handle an invading bug.

So, you have an immune system -- made up of all sorts of "anti-germs" and other guys who fight the bad guys.

You would think that the older you get the better your immune system would be.  After all, you are gradually accumulating all sorts of new anti-germs -- so that by the time you're old you would be ready to attack almost any bug that ever existed!

Not that easy!

The Missing Factor -- Recognition!

It seems that as people get older their immune system is often also going downhill.  As scientists studied this they found that one particular part of the immune system seemed to suffer the most in old age.

It was the mechanism by which the body RECOGNIZES an invading bug and matches that bug with what antibodies are already there in the body ready to do the fighting.  The guardian policeman is constantly looking for bad bugs -- sometimes that guardian doesn't recognize a bug as being the same as a previous bug!

Now, Dorothy is 67 years old, and along comes bug X -- again.  This time, even though she has some antibodies specifically designed for bug X, the immune system doesn't recognize that it is bug X and thinks that this is a new bug -- Bug X2!

The body starts making antibodies for Bug X2.  That would be OK, because the mechanism for making antibodies is still working and the body will actually make new antibodies for bug X -- even though it already had done that years ago, and even thought here might even be a supply of them (already made earlier) available.  But, because the body was slow in RECOGNIZING that it was bug X, the bug got a start before the immune system could make enough "new" antibodies.

So, you have old age -- and a declining immune system.

AIDS is a disease where the recognition process isn't working either.  (Click here for a lengthy article by Karl Loren about the AIDS virus.  Note that the link goes to a different web site, that the article has its own links to more than 100 pages.  You might want to bookmark THIS page to get back to it easily.)

It is the immune system's FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE that it has already made an antibody for that invading bug which slows down the response.  As a lot of this goes on, you can see that the body might not be able to develop enough "new" antibodies in time to prevent the invading bugs from multiplying and doing lots of damage.

Old People Are Vulnerable

So, older people need some help in recognizing those invading bugs -- and there has previously been nothing that would do that.  Old people are vulnerable to invading germs -- not because they don't have the antibodies to fight off the infection, or cancer, or flu, but because their body is too slow in recognizing what troops to send into battle -- so it makes new ones -- slowly!

Old people are vulnerable!

It also turns out that ANYONE who has been sick often has this same problem.  So, not only elderly people, but people of any age can have their immune system lose the ability to recognize the incoming bugs -- and waste time trying to make a new antibody when that same germ has been fought and vanquished before.  What is the standard medical solution to these infections?  Antibiotics!  How serious are infections in today's modern world?  They account for the majority of death in the young.  Click here to read a report on infections as a cause of death.

So, anyone can be vulnerable who has had lots of sicknesses.  They often get antibiotics to "cure" the sickness.

Super Bugs! -- Resistant To Antibiotics

What else can cause this immune system recognition problem?  Well, taking too many antibiotics, or taking the wrong kind, or taking them too long or too short.  Doctors know this to be true -- that the bugs become resistant to antibiotics.  Then the drug companies develop NEW and better antibiotics.  But, we now have Super  Bugs in our society that don't respond to any antibiotic -- and these Super Bugs were actually created because of poor use of antibiotics!  Now we have new and more deadly antibiotics to handle the new super bugs!  There is a "last resort" antibiotic which has, now, failed -- this was considered the antibiotic that would never fail.  It has.  The bugs are winning.

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Thomas J. Moore's Book, Prescription For Disaster tells of the dangerous drugs, approved by the FDA, which are causing death and disease.  Many of these drugs would cause less harm if the immune system were healthy!  Some of these drugs enter the body and are seen by the immune system as dangerous substances.  These drugs often damage the immune system.

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Just about everyone who gets sick probably has some of this going on -- an immune system which is having trouble recognizing the invading bug.

Who else?

Who Else Is Vulnerable?

The solution is simple -- you have probably heard about how healthy "mother's milk" is for her newborn child?  The reason is simple.  The mother, with all her protective antibodies, passes on HER immunity to her baby by breast feeding.

It's a terrible indictment of health education that many mothers don't know this.  My own mother, more than 67 years ago, was completely ignorant of these facts of life.  She wanted to nurse me, but the first milk she produced looked "wrong" to her -- it was not the color of "good" milk.  She got frightened that her milk was no good and didn't try to nurse.  So, I wound up being at risk with my immune system completely missing for the first several weeks of my life.

One of the most famous medical clinics in the world, the Mayo Clinic, has published a fine article describing the immune system.  There are lots of nice pictures and drawings.  You can click here to read it.  However, the tragedy is that nowhere in this series of articles published by the Mayo  Clinic is there ANY mention of the most natural method of  creating the immune system in the first place -- mother's milk!  I'll bet a couple of nickels that if we could find publications from the Mayo Clinic in the 1940's and 1950's they would have been warning mothers against breastfeeding!

When a baby has not had mother's breast milk, it takes the baby about a month to develop its own immune system.  During that month if the baby got sick, then some immunity might never develop because the immune system was so overwhelmed by some particular antigen -- the immune system can even start "thinking" that the antigen is a normal thing to have floating around in the blood stream!

You can actually get into a condition where a runny nose is considered "normal" by the immune system -- because the immune system has "recognized" the antigen that causes the runny nose to be a "good guy" not a bad bug!

But, most mothers now understand that they give immunity to their new baby by breast feeding.

For years this was understood to be true, but the mechanism by which this happened was NOT understood.

Mother's breastfeeding, historically, has been well accepted as not something to be hidden, but to be proud of.

Master of the legend of St. Catherine "Virgin & Child" 42 x 31 cm. National Museum, Stockholm

When a baby was NOT breast fed, researchers would find practically ZERO antibodies in the baby's system.  When a baby WAS breast fed, researchers found the antibodies inside the newborn baby, they couldn't deny them.  There they were!  The newborn baby has no antibodies -- but within a few days on breast milk, the baby suddenly has a fully functioning immune system!  Miracle!

When they tested a baby who did NOT get breast fed by his or her mother, those antibodies were NOT there.  That baby was at risk.

There is an important technical point here.

When a human takes living cells, or even dead animal cells, into the body through the mouth, the digestive system treats it all like food.  It might be a very valuable living immune system cell, but as far as the baby is concerned it is only more food to digest.

If you take these same living cells (even immune system cells) and INJECT them into a body, the body treats them like invading bugs. There is a rejection mechanism which protects human bodies from injected living things.  The body even rejects ANY protein substance injected into the blood stream.  If you ground up hamburger and made it very "fine" and injected it?  -- terrible harm.  The immune system would attack the hamburger as an invading bug.

So, don't think that you can get a boost in your immunity by absorbing the antibodies in the milk -- it doesn't work that way!

So, antibodies are living cells and the new baby could not possibly get them through mother's milk that went into the body through the mouth and stomach.  That milk DOES have antibodies in it, but they are nothing more than food to the infant.  No living cell can possibly pass through the digestive process and get into the body through the mouth and stomach.

So, the antibodies in a baby could not have gotten there through mother's milk, even though mother's milk has those antibodies in it!

You can see what a puzzle this caused the researchers.

All the many immune system cells in the mother did not, somehow, get passed over to the baby.  But the baby who breast fed got immediate immune system cells and the baby who did not get breast fed did not get those cells.

There were many studies done of this matter and finally the scientists identified a "factor" that was transferred in the mother's milk.  This "factor" was not a cell, it was not a germ, it was something that hadn't really ever been identified before.  The scientists would use "screens" to take out anything as large as a living cell -- and the "factor" still got through.  So, the realized that whatever "it" was, it was smaller than any cell -- and probably was a molecule.

Then the scientists found ways to screen out the large molecules -- the "factor" still got through these screening techniques. That meant it had to be something very small -- a small molecule? It was much too small to see with a microscope!  They looked, but couldn't find it!

Finally, rather than give it some new fancy name, they just stuck with the word "factor" to explain this "thing!"  You might expect science to be more elegant than this, but sometimes scientists, like the rest of us, are just puzzled and put a name-tag on something -- calling it a "factor."

And, to be more clear, they called it the "transfer factor," -- the "something" in mother's milk which transferred from her to the new baby and created IN the baby an entire immune system, just about overnight.  It was almost as if as soon as this transfer factor got into the new baby's body it started manufacturing exactly the type of antibodies which were called for in the transfer factor.  The baby's body did this even though there was no invading bug.   So, when and if one of those bugs came along, the baby's immune system was READY even though the baby, itself, had never personally been attacked by that bug before.

Now, have you heard of a "wet nurse?"  That's a woman who is "lactating."  She has had a baby and has milk in her breasts.  She can take any other baby, not her own, and feed that baby her breast milk.  For many years wealthy women who had just given birth would hire a "wet nurse" to breast feed their new baby. 

This way the wealthy woman didn't have to stay at home to nurse.  When babies who were breast fed by a "wet nurse" they did NOT get the immune system factors transferred from that wet nurse! Now, there is another puzzle!

Well, by now you might have guessed.  "Regular Mother's Breast Milk" does NOT transfer the immune system to the baby.

The Usual Source Of False Data:
The FDA!

As usual, the government is a great source of lies on this subject.  Here is a paragraph from an article published by the Food and Drug Administration which contains critical false data:

Breast-fed babies have fewer illnesses because human milk transfers to the infant a mother's antibodies to disease. About 80 percent of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses. Breast-fed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections, and German measles. Furthermore, mothers produce antibodies to whatever disease is present in their environment, making their milk custom-designed to fight the diseases their babies are exposed to as well.

Click Here to see the entire article, which includes a link back to the FDA source.

It is NOT the milk that transfers immunity, but only a special form of mother's milk, called the colostrum.  Furthermore, it is NOT true that the antibodies in mother's milk actually do ANY good at all for the immune system of the baby. 

It's a long and exciting story, but eventually the researchers learned that ONLY the first few days' of a mother's milk had the capability of transferring the immune system to the baby.  That milk has its own special name -- colostrum!

This factor was only found in the colostrum -- not in the "regular" mother's milk. 

But, when they examined colostrum they found, again, that even though it contained lots of antibodies -- there was no way the baby could absorb antibodies through its mouth and stomach.  Yet, the antibodies were in the baby's body.

They were back to puzzling about how the mother's (colostrum) milk could transfer this great immunity to the baby without actually transferring the antibodies themselves.

Since colostrum is only made by the mother in the first few days of breast-feeding, it was obvious that the "transfer factor" was in the colostrum, and no where else!

This web site has well over 4,000 pages of scientific studies on colostrum and transfer factor.  You can read these by clicking here.

Lots of this research has been done with human milk, and with human colostrum.   But, you can guess that there was also research to discover if cow milk (colostrum from a cow) could convey the immune system changes to a human!

It worked!

In other words, you'll find dozens of studies showing that human colostrum transferred improved immunity not only to babies, but also to adult!

This was an exciting discovery.  You can guess that the cow is subject to many of the same invading germs as is a human -- so when a human drinks colostrum from a cow they can often get a nice boost to their immune system.  Then the very exciting discovery was made -- when elderly people drank colostrum they had a very wonderful return of the "recognition factor."

A cow's milk, just after having given birth, is called colostrum.  It passes on the cow's immune system to the baby cow!  But the truly amazing fact was discovered that the cow's colostrum would ALSO pass on immunity to a newborn human!   The immunity is not dependent on the species of animal!

Amazing!

Now, if you INJECT cow's colostrum into a human -- the human will get sick or even die.  You can't do that.

So, the scientists started removing "stuff" from the colostrum, just as they had removed stuff from the regular mother's milk -- to see what was actually "transferring" the immunity.

First they removed the easy stuff -- the fat and sugar.  In milk there is some amount of "cream" or fat -- just like the cow's milk can be separated into "skim milk" and "cream" human milk can be separated in the same way.

When they took the fat out of the colostrum, the immunity was still transferred -- so the fat had nothing to do with it.

When you have skim milk there is still "milk sugar" in that substance -- called "lactose."  There are simple ways of removing the sugar from milk too -- and you then have milk (or colostrum) which contains no sugar and no fat.  This form of colostrum STILL transferred the immunity to the baby -- so the immunity transfer was NOT caused by the milk sugar!

When you have removed both the fat and the sugar from milk you have something called "whey."

But, there are still many large particles within whey -- and they can be removed.  You have, for instance, all the many different types of living cells in the milk. These include the immune system cells of the cow (or human).  It is possible to remove ALL these living cells.

When you do THAT, the immunity still gets transferred.

Now, there are no more living cells in this "milk" but there are all sorts of "large molecules" and even they can be removed with various simple machines and techniques.

With THOSE removed, the immunity was still transferred!  A Miracle!

After they had screened out all living cells, and they even screened out the larger individual molecules -- they found "the" factor that transferred immunity -- it is a very small molecule.]

You could call it an "information messenger."  It carries information with it, from the mother to the baby (or from cow colostrum, properly processed into an adult human).  These messengers probably are equivalent to hundreds of pages of books!

Recall that older people may well have plenty of different types of anti-germ cells, but their body is slow at recognizing what particular bug is currently invading.

It turns out that when an older person drinks colostrum, even though the cow has not been especially treated, the person's immune system is greatly improved -- and it is the recognition factor which improves.  When this was being studied it became clear that the fat content of the milk was not carrying this factor -- also neither was the "lactose" (milk sugar) part of the "transfer factor."  When you take away the fat and the lactose, you have something called "whey" left. Milk Whey from colostrum was marketed for many years, either fresh or dried, as a source of wonderful nourishment -- and improvement of the immune system.  But, it takes a large quantity of this dried colostrum to give you very much of the transfer factor.

It takes about 50 units of dried colostrum to equal one unit of the molecules that are called "transfer factors."  Thus, if you want to get the same benefit from taking the Transfer Factor offered for sale on this web site, you would have to take at least 50 times as much colostrum.

The only actual study done on this subject is entitled An In Vitro Screening of 196 Natural Products for toxicity and Efficacy.  Click on that title to read about the study.

In order to tell the difference between TF and simple colostrum, there needs to be some way of measuring the TF.  We are getting there.  You can measure the number of different types of living immune system cells in a body.  I haven't yet found the unit of measure for a "transfer factor."  The transfer factors would NOT be detected by the tests which measure immune system components.

There are companies which offer to measure the components of the immune system for you.  Here is one.

ELISA assays are an essential laboratory procedure for the quantitation of specific proteins in serum and other biological fluids. Bethyl Laboratories offers an ELISA product line for the quantitation of the immunoglobulins and other proteins of the bovine, canine, chicken, equine, feline, goat, human, mouse, pig, rabbit and rat.  Click here to review a couple of their web pages, on this web site.  Click Here for an explanation of "ELISA" tests.

Fresh, raw cow colostrum can be drunk by a human with fine benefit -- although it would take a constant diet of fresh colostrum to equal the value of one capsule of the concentrated transfer factor which has been extracted from the colostrum.

In the early years attempts were made to inject the colostrum into a human body -- but that doesn't work.  Human bodies reject the living organisms in bovine colostrum, when injected.  So, those who wanted to capture the benefits of the transfer factor from colostrum started by simply freeze drying the colostrum and putting it into capsules.  Most people who do this remove the milk fats and the milk sugars first -- leaving what is often called "whey."  The whey contains the transfer factor from that colostrum, but even that material would cause a person to get deathly ill if it were injected because the whey still contains many living organisms from the cow -- and the human body can't use living bovine organisms.

But, if whey (or colostrum) is drunk, there is no body rejection.  The larger cells (whether living or dead) are used as food, but those tiny molecules CAN pass through from the stomach into the body -- carrying the immune system recognition molecules.

The solution for the colostrum promoters was freeze drying usually.  Some experiments were done with freezing the  colostrum.  The freezing kills all the living organisms, but does not harm the tiny molecule which is the transfer factor. This is why you will find many scientific studies of colostrum mentioning "frozen colostrum."  (Click Here to see such a study.)

So, whether you drink fresh raw colostrum or take a dried form, the transfer factors are available.  They are not harmed by simple processing.  This is the form of most "colostrum" being sold in the market today.

But, when you work with colostrum, or whey, you still have millions of different molecules that have nothing to do with the transfer factor.  Even though they can be identified, and can be extracted from the colostrum, that is a very expensive process.

It is much more simple to take the colostrum, freeze dry it, and give you the entire batch.

The transfer factor particles, in this huge mass of stuff, would be less than one one-thousandth of the original total.  Another way to put this is that if you could extract JUST the transfer factors from the colostrum you would have to work with 1,000 gallons of colostrum to get just one gallon of transfer factor.

Very expensive!

Along came more researchers -- who developed a process and then got it patented.  This is one of the strongest types of patents -- called a "process patent."  It is a patent that gives its inventor the right to control a particular process invented by him -- so no one else can use it without paying him some royalty.

The US Patent Office Has Granted A Patent For Extraction Of Transfer Factor From Colostrum.  No Other Person may use this patented process.  4Life Research has an exclusive license to use this patent.

As mentioned above, the ELISA test gives a measure of the existence, or not, and the quantity of immune system factors.  (Click here to review that information about the ELISA test.)

One capsule (200 mg) of Transfer Factor has the potential for recognizing at least 100,000 pathogens.  It would take more than a bottle of colostrum capsules to equal the transfer factor power of one capsule of Transfer Factor.  Thus, if colostrum is sold for 100 capsules for $20 (sounds cheap enough) and 4Life Research Transfer Factor sells for $50 for 90 capsules, you can do the arithmetic.  One TF Capsule costs a little over fifty cents but it is equivalent to 100 capsules of colostrum costing a total of $20.00!  Colostrum in dry form "works" only because it contains the basic transfer factor.  Transfer factor, however, is a very tiny part of the colostrum.  4Life Research has an exclusive license on the patent which allows a company to extract just the transfer factor from the colostrum.  Naturally those firms which do not have access to this patented process can only offer you the colostrum itself.  They will claim, correctly, that their colostrum contains transfer factor.  What they do not admit is that the quantity of transfer factor in colostrum is very small -- while the transfer factor from 4Life Research is very concentrated.

Well, if it works for an elderly person would it work for any age?  Would it be helpful to a very healthy athlete?  The exciting answer is "yes!"  Any person, any age, whose immune system is not working well can use this new form of colostrum to boost the immune system -- make the immune system much better at recognizing the invading bugs and allowing the already-created defense system to take charge, rather than build a whole new army for every bug.

But, humans often have diseases that cows don't have -- and the cow's colos