The first “milk” produced late in pregnancy and the first few days after birth.\u00a0 Colostrum is especially high in growth factors and \u00a0immunoglobulins – which are beneficial for the newborn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colostrum from immunized cows has been used experimentally to treat gastrointestinal infections<\/a>. More generally, colostrum is used as a supplement to enhance general immunity, health and athletic performance.\u00a0 Although probably useless as a performance enhancer<\/a>, there’s\u00a0some data to support its use for general health\/wellness<\/a>,\u00a0although studies have used\u00a0amounts much larger than many supplements provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first “milk” produced late in pregnancy and the first few days after birth.\u00a0 Colostrum is especially high in growth factors and \u00a0immunoglobulins – which are beneficial for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[294,438,459,544,545,906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}