Skin Health and Wound Healing

Colostrum is a natural for good skin health. It contains all that is needed to maintain healthy skin and reduce wrinkles. It helps maintain skin health both from the inside, by healing leaky gut syndrome and through its antioxidant effect, and externally by healing skin inflammation and stimulating cell growth.

• Colostrum helps heal leaky gut syndrome, an abnormal condition which allows unwanted pathogens and toxins into the body, which then may cause skin eruptions as the body attempts to remove them^72,73
• Lactoferrin’s role as an antioxidant helps clean up free radicals which can cause skin aging changes^109,110
• Lactoferrin applied topically can inhibit local inflammatory responses in the skin by regulating the expression of TNF-α^167-169
• Growth factors found in colostrum, such as epidermal growth factor, fibroblast growth factor and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), help maintain healthy skin by replacing damaged tissue and can accelerate wound healing^170-173, while a lack of IGF-1 retards wound healing¹⁷⁴
• Skin becomes thin with aging due to a reduction in growth factors with age; IGF-1 supplementation can help restore skin thickness¹⁷⁵
• Ceramide, the predominant lipid in the skin and a metabolite of sphingomyelin, one of the phospholipids found in colostrum and BIO-lipid, is important for both water retention and permeability barrier function; decreased levels of ceramide are associated with dermatitis and dry skin conditions¹⁷⁶
• Sphingosines, which are also metabolites of sphingomyelin, also are important in maintaining the barrier function of the skin against pathogens, including bacteria and fungi¹⁷⁷, and can even be used as topical antiseptics¹⁷⁸