Monday, April 20, 2009
The History of Transfer Factors
In 1949, Dr. H. Sherwood Lawrence
discovered that when you transfer blood to another person, some of the
donor’s immunity is transferred to the receiving person. From this
discovery, research began its journey through the 1950s, 1960s, and
1970s. Scientists believed they had found that ultimate immune system
and health enhancer. They believed that transfer factors would be the
ultimate natural medicine. As technology increased, more and more was
learned about the benefits of transfer factors. More than 3000 studies
were conducted and $40 million (USA) was invested into research.
Scientists from more than 60 countries were involved in this research.
Two developments stopped this progress. First was the development of
antibiotics. Antibiotics were inexpensive to manufacture. They were
effective. Antibiotics took the show.
Another
development was the contamination of the world’s blood supply by HIV
and hepatitis C virus. Up until this time, the only known source of
transfer factors was derived from blood. Research stopped in its tracks.
In 1986, two hog scientists discovered that mothers passed down their
transfer factors to their babies through the placenta and colostrum in
order to give the baby’s immune system a chance to survive a hostile
environment of pathogens. These scientists found the cows did the same
thing. Often calves will not survive if for some reason they do not
receive the colostrum from the mother. Research began to move forward
again. Antibiotics still reigned as king in the medical world. Many
scientists that worked with transfer factors derived from blood didn’t
think transfer factors from colostrum would work, so they didn’t enter
the research.
Three events in history changed all of this. First, technology
advanced. Secondly, germs began to become resistant to antibiotics.
Third, 4Life Research created a large consumer base from which they
derived a great deal of information about how transfer factors affected
the health and immune systems of more than a million customers. Now
research is exploding!
Every year and sometimes every month, something new is discovered about
the effectiveness and roles of transfer factors. 4Life Research was the
first to bring a line of transfer factor products to the market that
contained transfer factors from cow colostrum. Next, their in-house
scientists discovered that eggs contained transfer factors and the
combination of the two increases their effectiveness by 185%. Transfer
factors from colostrum and eggs were found to be actually superior to
transfer factors from humans because animals are exposed to many more
species of bacteria, viruses and fungi. Animals live in the wild while
humans try to keep sterile. Animal transfer factors have hundreds of
years of more exposure creating a more functional transfer factor.