While studying Tuberculosis in 1949, Dr. H. Sherwood Lawrence (prior Head of Infectious Diseases and Immunology of New York University, 1959 - 2000) discovered that he could “transfer” a positive immune response from a recovered donors to a naive recipient, someone who had never encountered tuberculosis.

At the time, Lawrence used white blood cells as the source of transfer factor from human to donors to lucky patients via intravenous administration. Although transfer factor was hailed as a major discovery by researchers and scientists around the world, penicilin took center stage as Western medicine’s panacea, a “cure-all” to sickness and infection.

No one can argue the role antibiotics have played in battling disease. At the same time, more professionals than ever are concerned about their effectiveness as germs get smarter. Antibiotic replace the immune system, rather than strengthen it. For this reason, people are looking for alternative ways to support and promote their immune response.

Since Lawrence’s ground-breaking life work, thousands of scientific studies have explored the effectiveness of the immune system molecule, transfer factor. And over the last twenty years, three major immunological discoveries have revolutionized transfer factor science:

SOURCES

In the early days of transfer factor therapy, donors were human, and transfer factor was received via injection. It wasn’t until the 1980s that medical science discovered the efficacy and compatibility of animal-sourced transfer factor. Today, we know that unlike antibodies, transfer factor is cross-species compatible. This means that its benefit is universal. As a result, we can profit from the transfer factor of animals with heroic (resilient) immune systems.

ORAL CONSUMPTION: DELIVERY

Transfer factor has come a long way since its intravenous beginning. In the 1980s, it was discovered that transfer factor is orally transmissible, which makes sense because it’s passed from mother to child through coloctrum, a mother’s first milk. A wide range of studies conducted over the past two decades now underscore the efficacy of orally consumed transfer factor.

TECHNOLOGY

Scientists have only recently developed the techniques needed to extract and concentrate transfer factor molecules for optimal potency. For example, although traces of transfer factor exist in colostrum, they must be isolated and purified for ideal results.

HEROIC IMMUNE SYSTEM = POTENT TRANSFER FACTOR

The most potent transfer factor molecules come from “heroic” immune system that have had previous encounters with a wide range of viral and bacterial strains. Today’s scientific community is particularly interested in two sources of transfer factor: one derived from cows, the other from chickens.

Cow colostrum contains potent transfer factor designed to prepare the newborn calf for the barnyard’s toxic environment. Similarly, eggs offer another source for harvesting potent transfer factor strain.

OUR DAILY NEED FOR TRANSFER FACTOR

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world take transfer factor on a daily basis for increased immune system support. In fact, one report indicates that in China, “more than six million people have used transfer factor as prophylaxis for hepatitis.

Throughout the world, people are discovering that transfer factor offers general immune maintenance for our on-the-go lifestyles. This may be why the popular book, The Germ Survival Guide, by Dr. Kenneth A. Bock, M.D., et al., lists six Transfer Factor capsules per day as “essential” when travelling.