Colostrum is loaded with all the benefits necessary to sustain life.
There are many reasons to give your dog colostrum....
🤧 Allergies
Allergies are an overactive immune response. Colostrum helps manage inflammation that causes rashes, itching, and discomfort for your dog. Colostrum also helps manage leaky gut, which a common cause of allergic reactions in dogs.
💧Leaky Gut
Leaky gut in dogs happens when the gut lining gets damaged. Drugs or other toxins in the environment can do this. Once damaged, undigested food particles can pass through the lining and get into the bloodstream. These invaders can cause problems ranging from allergies to digestive issues and arthritis.
Studies show that colostrum can help heal leaky gut. It helps manage inflammation and acts as a prebiotic to “feed” healthy gut bacteria.
💩 Diarrhea
Colostrum can also help manage diarrhea.
Studies show it can help reduce many different kinds of diarrhea. This includes chronic, acute and even infectious diarrhea.
Colostrum can also be useful for your litter of puppies by improving the fecal quality of weaned puppies.
🦷 Oral Health
Periodontal disease is a leading problem in small animal patients. It’s especially prominent in small dogs and often leads to tooth loss. Colostrum can reduce the bacteria that cause gum disease. Growth factors in colostrum may also repair damaged tissue.
💊 Gut Damage From Drugs
Drugs like non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) or antibiotics have many side effects. And they can cause permanent damage to your dog’s gut health, including leaky gut.
Colostrum can help repair gut damage from pharmaceutical drugs.
🧬 Aging
Colostrum can have anti-aging effects on your dog … in several ways. It can help preserve lean muscle mass and bone density in older adults. This could mean better mobility and strength as your dog ages
Colostrum also improves recovery from exercise, helping prevent oxidative stress. And it may prevent cognitive decline as well.
📋 Autoimmune Disease
Like humans, dogs are suffering more and more from autoimmune disease. Over-vaccination, leaky gut and environmental toxins are just some of the factors. Colostrum helps regulate an overactive immune system.
Colostrum also helps by limiting bacteria and viruses. These viruses can trigger or aggravate autoimmune disorders.
🍞 Yeast
Many dogs have to deal with itching, skin odor and discomfort from yeast. Colostrum has strong antifungal activity. It also helps get rid of biofilms that protect yeast. Along with colostrum’s immune-boosting properties, it can help fight your dog’s stubborn yeast infection.
🎗 Cancer
Immunoglobulins in colostrum help support your dog’s immune system. They also help fight viruses and bacterial infections.
Anti-inflammatory effects may also help treat and prevent cancer. And the cytokines in colostrum can help the body fight cancer as they activate special white blood cells … that can find and kill cancer cells. Colostrum also contains a special protein called Lactalbumin. Researchers report that colostrum lactalbumin can cause apoptosis (death) of cancer cells … but leaves the healthy cells to thrive.
🦵 Joint Issues And Arthritis
Managing leaky gut and inflammation are a big part of controlling your dog’s joint pain or arthritis. And growth factors in colostrum can also help repair tissue damage in the joints. The MSM in colostrum can help manage pain and inflammation. MSM is also important to help maintain cartilage.
😷 Canine Flu
Colostrum can prevent upper respiratory diseases. It can also prevent the flu better than vaccination...“at least 3 times more effective than vaccination.”
So, if your dog goes to daycare or boarding, give him colostrum to prevent flu or kennel cough.
🤲 Skin Problems
You can use colostrum topically to speed skin repair and wound healing. It's antibacterial effects can also help with skin infections. Make a paste of powdered colostrum mixed with distilled water and apply it to problems like …
• Skin infections
• Wounds (including surgical wounds)
• Insect bites
• Abscesses
• Hot spots
• Rashes
• Cysts
❗️❗️Bonus Benefit: Colostrum For Lyme Disease
There’s a bonus benefit to colostrum. Colostrum can help treat Lyme disease. The studies show it’s more effective than the antibiotic doxycycline … the standard treatment for Lyme disease.
If your dog has Lyme disease symptoms (or if you do!), colostrum is a low cost, safe supplement to help fight this stubborn bacterial infection.