Transfer Factor and 4LIFE

Wikipedia describes “transfer factors are essentially small immune messenger molecules that are produced by all higher organisms. They are an ancient part of the immune system and present “an archaic dialect in the language of cells. Transfer factors were originally described as immune molecules that are derived from blood or spleen cells that cause antigen-specific cell mediated immunity, primarily delayed hypersensitivity and the production of lymphokines, as well as binding to the antigens themselves.

Henry Sherwood Lawrence discovered transfer factors in 1954. A second use of term transfer factor applies to a likely different entity derived from cow colostrum or chicken egg yolk which is marketed as an oral dietary supplement under the same name citing claims of benefit to the immune system.

Transfer factor is an immune molecule composed entirely of amino acids. Wikipedia further explains that to communicate between cells, the immune system employs hormone-like signal substances; transfer factors are one class of such immune system communication substances.  Transfer factors include both inducer/helper functions and regulator functions. Side effect of long term oral administration of colostrum-derived factors has been shown to be safe. Colostrum is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals including humans in late pregnancy and it also contains multiple immune modulating molecules.”

I have always been health conscious and consuming products which I believe is good for my health made me a target for marketers because they have no problem convincing me.  All these years this body of mine is sustained every now and then with supplements from mushrooms of Japan and Indonesia, some herbs from America, purple rice of Thailand and some fiber oxidants processed in Davao.

Because health is wealth and because raw nutritious foods are not always available anywhere to buy nor prepare, these kinds of health intakes are easy to take and bring around.