I HAD PLANNED ON TAKING TODAY OFF Dear Friends, Last night, I made a resolution to work harder this year. Each time I go the extra yard in helping somebody, I create a tiny ripple in an enormous ocean. Please observe closely the next time you throw a rock into a lake or ocean. It's always a bulls-eye! Create enough ripples, and one makes waves. Resolve to make waves. Together we can erode ignorance, and change our landscape for the better. Early this New Year's morning I received this letter from a reader (name and EMAIL address withheld): "What is your opinion of Transfer Factor? It is our understanding that it is not colostrum— just the factor from colostrum that builds the immune system. I am a vegan and make my own soymilk, but I have been taking Transfer Factor and have not had a cold, flu or such "bugs" since I have been on it. People mention the madcow disease, etc just because it does come from milk. I have been on the fence about it but since I have had so much better health taking it, I continue to take it. Thanks for any words of wisdom that you have." Transfer factor is a substance found in colostrum. It works, and that is the problem. When a mother gives birth to her infant, her mammary glands produce a pre-milk formula called colostrum. Cows, dogs, sheep, humans... all mammals produce their own "perfect formula" which provides disease- preventing immunological factors and hormones which promote growth. Colostrum is super-saturated with hormones. Each hormone regulates one or more of the thousands of metabolic processes occurring every second inside of the human body. Some hormones regulate cellular metabolism. Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, is actually a steroid hormone. In the 1850's, scientists first recognized that the thyroid gland produced a substance which regulated metabolism. A decade later, it was noted that the pancreas acted as a gland, secreting a substance that would later be identified as insulin. Hormones are chemical messengers. There is a group of protein hormones that regulate growth. These protein hormones (made up of amino acids) instruct cells to grow. The first one of these to be discovered was appropriately named 'Human Growth Hormone'(hGH) or human somatotropin(hST). Dogs have canine somatotropin CST/CGH, pigs have porcine somatotropin (pST/pGH) and cows have bovine somatotropin (bST/bGH). Human Growth hormone was discovered just before World War II. It was so named because of what it did: promoted cellular proliferation and growth. Two decades after GH was discovered, an even more powerful growth factor was found. IGF-I Insulin-like growth factor(IGF-I) received its name because its structure resembled that of insulin. However, its function is nothing like insulin. Had IGF-I been discovered before GH, it would have received that name. IGF-I is much more powerful than GH. IGF-I is the most powerful growth hormone known to science. A MIRACLE OF NATURE IGF-I, the most POWERFUL growth hormone in the human body, is identical between humans and cows. DOES TRANSFER FACTOR WORK? Manufacturers and multi-level marketing sales persons call colostrum and transfer factor the ultimate anti-aging formulas. They claim that their formula removes wrinkles and promote athletic endurance. They repair muscle tears and promote nerve growth. ARE THE CLAIMS ACCURATE? YES! Colostrum works. IGF-I works. Transfer factor works!. Hormones work. WHAT ELSE CAN TRANSFER FACTOR DO FOR YOU? Hormones do not discriminate. Transfer factor's major component is IGF-I, the most powerful growth hormone and cellular proliferator. When IGF-I is produced naturally, it loses its potency (by attaching to receptor proteins or by being broken down into its basic components) in less than 30 seconds. In colostrum or transfer factor, IGF-I can "survive" for 30 minutes. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IGF-I IN COLOSTRUM OR TRANSFER FACTOR FINDS AN EXISTING CANCER? Infants are not usually born with cancers. Cancers are quite common in adults, but normally controlled by our immune systems. THE MISSING LINK-CANCER IS COMMON, WAITING TO GROW On November 8, 1994 the New York Times reported the results of an autopsy study on pre-mature deaths (page C-1, Gina Kolata). The study revealed that nearly 40% of women between the ages of 40 and 50 have breast cancer and virtually all adults over the age of 50 have some form of cancer. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR A CANCER TO GROW? Every cancer begins with one cell. That cell doubles, on average, every ninety days. After three months, it is two cells. After six months, four. After one year, the cancer is 16 cells in size. After twenty cycles, or doublings, that cancer will grow to one million cells, which is the tiniest lump a woman can feel in her breast. It can take 8-10 years for a cancer to be clinically diagnosed. Somewhere along that timeline, the cancer stops growing, usually suppressed by the immune system's tight genetic controls. SOMETHING MAKES CANCER GROW IGF-I has been called the key factor in the growth and proliferation of breast and prostate cancers. http://www.notmilk.com WOULD YOU TAKE A SUBSTANCE CONTAINING THE KEY FACTOR TO CANCER'S GROWTH? Remove wrinkles from your face or get an extra burst of energy and you might very well be lighting the fuse for your future cancer diagnosis. Transfer factor works. Colostrum works. There is no debate. They might very well work too well. Take transfer factor or colostrum today and in ten years you might not make the connection between today's phenomenal growth product and tomorrow's not-so phenomenal cancer. __________________________________________________ Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z Executive Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com) Dairy Education Board http://www.notmilk.com This file: http://www.notmilk.com/forum/773.txt Do you know of a friend or family member with one or more of these milk-related problems? Do them a huge favor and forward the URL or this entire file to them. Do you know of someone who should read these newsletters? If so, have them send a empty Email to: notmilk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and they will receive it (automatically)!