allerjesus und cattles und rhinos

In be­tween wip­ing my teary eyes on the shoul­der of my hood­ie and blow­ing my nose for the 655,321st time, I did a bit of re­search on bovine colostrum use by hu­mans for re­lief of chron­ic al­ler­gic rhini­tis.

Here are the re­sults of that re­search:

“A per­son is said to have an al­ler­gy when their im­mune sys­tem over­re­acts to the pres­ence of a sub­stance (an al­ler­gen) that is not nor­mal­ly con­sid­ered to be of dan­ger to the body. When a per­son be­comes hy­per­sen­si­tive to one or more al­ler­gens, the body as­sumes it is be­ing in­vad­ed by some­thing nasty and calls up the de­fense forces to neu­tral­ize the of­fend­ing sub­stance. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, the re­lease of his­t­a­mine dur­ing this re­sponse pro­duces un­wel­come symp­toms such as sneez­ing, run­ny or stuffed nose, itchy eyes, breath­ing dif­fi­cul­ties, and, in ex­treme cas­es, ana­phy­lac­tic shock and death. Typ­i­cal al­ler­gens in­clude pollen and spores, house mites, an­i­mal dan­der and hair, foods such as nuts and seafood, peni­cillin, and in­sect stings.

“Colostrum, the ‘first milk’ pro­duced by mam­mals im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter giv­ing birth, con­tains over 90 known com­po­nents. Many of these com­pounds are in­volved in sup­port­ing the new­born infant’s im­mune sys­tem. They, there­fore, have a role to play in con­trol­ling the body’s re­sponse to po­ten­tial­ly harm­ful out­side in­vaders; that is, the mech­a­nism that is er­ro­neous­ly in­voked in those who have be­come sen­si­tized to al­ler­gens.

“The good news for al­ler­gy suf­fer­ers is that colostrum is not only a vi­tal sub­stance for new­borns, but, when tak­en as a sup­ple­ment, it can pro­vide a huge range of ben­e­fits for peo­ple of all ages. Fur­ther­more, it has been shown that bovine colostrum, which is avail­able in com­mer­cial quan­ti­ties, is ful­ly com­pat­i­ble with the hu­man body. In fact, bovine colostrum has the ad­di­tion­al ad­van­tage of be­ing four times rich­er in im­mune fac­tors than hu­man colostrum, and it con­tains some com­pounds that pro­tect the ac­tive in­gre­di­ents from the de­struc­tive ef­fects of the hu­man di­ges­tive sys­tem, thus al­low­ing them to re­main ac­tive for a longer pe­ri­od.

“Re­search has iden­ti­fied an in­gre­di­ent called pra­line-rich polypep­tide (PRP) as one of the main com­po­nents of colostrum that is re­spon­si­ble for elim­i­nat­ing or im­prov­ing the symp­toms of al­ler­gies. It is also thought to be po­ten­tial­ly use­ful for oth­er au­toim­mune con­di­tions, such as rheuma­toid arthri­tis, lu­pus, and MS. Ac­cord­ing to Staroscik et al, 1983 (Mol­e­c­u­lar Im­munol­o­gy, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 1277–1282), PRP has the same abil­i­ty to reg­u­late ac­tiv­i­ty of the im­mune sys­tem as do hor­mones pro­duced by the thy­mus gland. It can stim­u­late an un­der-ac­tive sys­tem into deal­ing with dis­ease-caus­ing or­gan­isms and it can also sup­press an over-ac­tive sys­tem which re­sults from au­toim­mune dis­or­ders and al­ler­gic re­ac­tions.

“PRP’s abil­i­ty to re­duce al­ler­gic symp­toms is thought to be part­ly due to in­hi­bi­tion of the lym­pho­cyte (white blood cell) and T‑cell over­pro­duc­tion that is nor­mal­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with an al­ler­gic re­ac­tion. PRP may also as­sist in the cre­ation of spe­cial cells (helper T‑cells and sup­pres­sor T‑cells) which sup­press and switch off the im­mune re­sponse. Oth­er stud­ies have shown that PRP is high­ly anti-in­flam­ma­to­ry, which helps to re­duce the ef­fects of the his­t­a­mine that has been re­leased.

“Bovine colostrum has also been shown to con­tain an ar­ray of an­ti­bod­ies to com­mon al­ler­gens that can af­fect hu­mans. These an­ti­bod­ies are built up over time by the cows as they them­selves re­spond to the al­ler­gens. When a per­son in­gests the an­ti­bod­ies via colostrum, they re­main on hand to as­sist in the body’s re­sponse to al­ler­gen ex­po­sure.”

So,

I pur­chased some cap­sules so as to achieve a dai­ly dose of 500mg for 30 days. If any­one wish­es to dis­cuss this top­ic fur­ther, be it on a pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive note, I would be glad of it.

Also,

I know all about Taco Tues­day, been doin’ it since I start­ed on sol­id food near­ly a half cen­tu­ry ago.

But is Tamale Thurs­day a thing yet? Be­cause it needs to be. Like start­ing now. And not just be­cause I am mak­ing home­made tamales to­day.

 
 

—rob­bie ed­monds

Flom­mist Rob­bie Ed­monds would love to sit down with you and dis­cuss his the­o­ries of mind-swap­ping and time trav­el, but it ap­pears as if he, as his cat, just left to stop him­self from do­ing so … AGAIN! Copy­right © 2017 Rob­bie Ed­monds. Colostrum and al­ler­gies source. Foto by mehal­lo.

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