To understand the aging process better, think of your car. The human body, believe it or not, is a machine also. It obeys the laws of physics, and it does physical work. It is a machine with incredibly marvelous and complex biochemical processes, but nonetheless a machine. And like any other machine, if the human body is to look its best and function properly, it requires continual repair and rejuvenation. And without continual repair and rejuvenation - again like any other machine - the human body ages, atrophies, diminishes in performance, and ultimately stops working altogether.

Your car requires a team of maintainers to keep it in top shape - maintainers who monitor systems and correct them before they do further damage, maintainers who repair or replace broken parts, maintainers who refurbish the interior and clean and polish the exterior to keep everything working and looking its very best. The human body is much the same. It has a team of maintainers, and if these maintainers are not present at adequate levels to keep up with the job, the human body more quickly deteriorates and ages.

When we are young our bodies produce the maintainers in abundance. As we grow older our bodies produce less and less of the maintainers.

The Body Maintainers

The chief maintainers of the body are the growth factors. Growth factors regenerate cells - bone cells, cartilage cells, nerve cells, vascular cells, muscle cells, skin cells, cells of all types. In short, growth factors continually renew all body tissues. Growth factors also regulate and balance. They help to maintain homeostasis, the balance of the body’s physiological systems. When homeostasis exists, the body’s systems function in harmony.

Primary Growth Factors in Colostrum

Epithelial growth, stimulates normal skin cell growth and skin healing and rejuvenation.

Transfoming growth factors A and B, aid in wound healing and the synthesis and repair of RNA and DNA.

Growth hormone, regulates metabolism, reduces fat, increases lean muscle mass, regenerates heart, lung, liver and other organ tissues, improves moods and mental acuity, stimulates the renewal of skin and bone, enhances immunity.

Fibroblast growth factor, stimulates the growth of new blood vessels, tissue development, wound healing.

Platelet-derived growth factor, stimulates the healing of vascular wounds.

Insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1 and IGF-2), a primary factor in the growth, maintenance, and regeneration of all muscle and cartilage cells, increases fat burning, involved in energy production.

The Growth Factors Must Exist in the Proper Proportions

For years drug-engineering (pharmaceutical) companies have synthesized growth factors that exist naturally in colostrum, and these synthetic growth factors have been used by wealthy patrons in expensive anti-aging clinics. Growth factors may indeed help keep our bodies looking young and the biological machine functioning at peak performance. However, for optimum benefit the full array of growth factors needs to be present, and the only supplement that contains the full array of growth factors in the proportions designed by nature is colostrum.

An Anti-Aging Study

“A 1990 study in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded that GH treatment prevented some of the signs of aging. In his study, Dr. Daniel Rudman treated 26 men between the ages of 61 and 80 with GH. Patients experienced a decrease in overall body fat (up to 14%) and an increase in bone density and lean muscle mass. In addition, their skin was thicker and more elastic. Rudman said the changes were equivalent to those incurred over a 10- to 20- year period of aging.” (The American Journal of Natural Medicine, 3/1998)