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Colostrum: What Is It, Nutrition & What to Expect

Might Improve Gut Health

Your immune system may be strengthened, and intestinal illnesses may be fought using bovine colostrum.

Bovine colostrum may promote intestinal cell growth, reinforce the gut wall, and prevent intestinal permeability, a disorder that causes particles from your gut to leak into the rest of your body, according to research conducted on both animals and humans.

The lactoferrin and the growth factors it contains are thought to be responsible for these positive effects.

One study demonstrated that ingesting 20 grams of bovine colostrum daily avoided 80% of the increase in intestinal permeability [4] that occurred in 12 athletes who were vulnerable to it because of intense exercise.