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TOTAL HEALTH MAGAZINE
Transfer Factor Immunological Health
Pestilence – Disease – Infirmity -
Death
These are just a few of the terms
specialists from around the world are using to describe the potential for
apandemic, a worldwide outbreak of H5Ni, the Avian Flu. If not this strain,
some other, they say. It's not a matter of if—but when. Although speculation
varies, there's one thing everyone agrees with: The indispensable importance of
an optimally functioning immune system.
Immunity, Health, Longevity, and
Life.
These are the things we all value, and
they are just a few of the terms we associate with an immune system that works,
an immune response that's never late and doesn't misfire, a state of
immune-readiness constantly prepared to wage a balanced and accurate defense
against bodily intruders like germs that make us sick, bacteria that give us
infection, and viruses that kill.
It's a hostile world. No matter
who we are, where we live, or what we do, the immune system is our first and
last line of defense. No matter the money governments around the world spend on
pandemic response strategies. No matter the alleged availability or potency of
antibiotics. No matter the research dollars pouring into vaccine development.
At the end of the day, one question rises above the rest: How strong is your
immune system?
Immune System Basics
Your immune system has three primary
functions: first to recognize bodily intruders, second to wage an effective
attack, and third to remember invaders when they return.
Although this may not be
"news," what hasn't been widely reported is that a molecule called
transfer factor (TF) is responsible for storing the information our immune system
uses to perform these functions.
Transfer Factor = Immune System
"Intelligence"
Transfer factor isn't a vitamin,
mineral, or herb, but a molecule that forms the core of your immune system's
intelligence network by storing information about previous immune system
encounters with bacteria, viruses and the like.
However, studies indicate that transfer
factor does much more than simply "remember" our immune system
experiences. It also provides strategic information about how to best handle
the pathogens we encounter by stimulating NK (natural killer) cell activity.
Similar to the genetic code stored in
the DNA molecule, the transfer factor molecule provides your immune system with
the information it needs to:
1. Identify a problem,
2. Balance your body's response, and
3. Accelerate positive immune
functioning.
Transfer
Factor Its History, and Why You Haven't Heard About It
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 donor 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 donors to lucky patients via intravenous
administration. Although transfer factor was hailed as a major discovery by
researchers and scientists around the world, penicillin 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 effectivenes as germs get
smarter. Antibiotics 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 ofanimal-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 science 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 colostrum, 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 Systems = Potent Transfer
Factor
The most potent transfer factor
molecules come from "heroic" immune systems 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 strains.
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 a 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 Cerm Survival
Guide, by Dr. Kenneth A. Bock, M.D., et al., lists six Transfer Factor capsules
per day as "essential" when traveling.
Reported Benefits of Transfer Factor
Transfer factor is referred to as an
"immunocorrector" and reportedly supports immune function in
different ways, including the suppression of an over-active immune system for
autoimmune disorders as well as the stimulation of normal immune functioning.
In May of 2000, Alternative Medicine
magazine published an article titled "Educating the Immune" in which
DJ. Fletcher writes that "the immune system is one of the miracles of
nature, and Transfer Factor (TF), a type of immune therapy, is part of that
miracle." Transfer factor, Fletcher states, may contribute to positive
immune function for people with "Candida albicans, Epstein-Barr, HIV, and
other health conditions, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and
Hepatitis."
As a "smart molecule" and
immune system balancer, transfer factor has proven valuable in helping the
immune system suppress unhealthy and potentially destructive levels of
inflammation. In fact, transfer factor actually educates your immune
system to what it must know for optimal performance when ever inflammation
occurs.
Transfer Factor Science: Breakthrough
and Discovery
Countless research articles explore the
role transfer factor molecules play in proper immune system functioning, and
there have been (and continue to be) substantial efforts to capitalize on this
research by securing intellectual rights for transfer factor processes. For
example, 4Life Research, LLC, of Sandy,
Utah, has conducted numerous
scientific studies and has multiple patents.
• In one independent NK Cell
Study, 4Life's combination of bovine and avian sourced transfer factor
dramatically increased natural killer cell activity four hundred thirty-seven
percent above baseline.
• In October of 2002, 4Life
patented methods for "obtaining transfer factor from avian sources"
as well as new ways of generating and preparing the non-mammalian transfer
factor."
• In March of 2005, 4Life
patented a process of combining transfer factor "from at least two
different types of source animals."
4Life Research's CEO, David
Lisonbee, has been at the forefront of immune research for more than 12 years.
For his contribution to the search for "new natural immunocorrectors, new
sources of extraction, and progressive developmental technologies,"
Lisonbee will be inducted into the Russian
Academy of Medical &
Technical Sciences and receive the 2006 I.N. Blokhina Award for
Bio-Technological Advancement during the last week of February.
In 2005, the Bush Administration
dedicated 7.1 billion dollars to the development of an emergency pandemic
response strategy. No matter how much money is invested in protecting us from
an outbreak of avian flu or some other epidemic, the immune system is our first
and last line of defense. Its worth is invaluable, because without an immune
system, we face pestilence, disease, infirmity and death. Fortunately,
scientific research continues to reveal a very promising link between the
transfer factor molecule and optimal immune response.
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