Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The #1 Most Powerful Immune Food in the World (LIQUID GOLD)

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Jun 2, 2025

Discover the immune-boosting power of colostrum, often dubbed nature's first food. This liquid gold is packed with probiotics, stem cells, and essential nutrients that support gut health and overall well-being. Far from just a baby’s digestible miracle, colostrum offers significant benefits for adults, especially for those facing health challenges. Learn how it can enhance immunity and why it's preferable to conventional infant formulas, which often lack vital nutrients. Supplementing with colostrum can make a real difference!

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INSIGHT

Colostrum’s Immune Power

Colostrum is the first breast milk produced after birth and is rich in immune-building components and probiotics.
It reprograms immune cells and supports brain and eye development, making it a highly potent natural immune booster.

INSIGHT

Infant Formula’s Limitations

Infant formula lacks immune intelligence and probiotics, using low-quality calories instead.
Babies fed formula are more prone to allergies, asthma, skin problems, and cognitive delays.

ADVICE

Advocate Breastfeeding Early

Encourage breastfeeding for pregnant women to support their child's long-term health.
Breastfeeding provides essential immune programming that impacts health far into adulthood.

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Add the best superfood for immunity to your diet today! Discover the countless health benefits of colostrum for your immune system, gut health, and more. Learn about the benefits of colostrum for adults and aging populations. It’s not just for babies!

0:00 Introduction: The best superfood for immunity

0:44 What is colostrum?

1:12 Colostrum benefits

3:33 Colostrum for adults

3:43 Colostrum and gut health

4:01 More colostrum uses

4:54 How to take colostrum

Colostrum is produced in the first 24 to 72 hours after birth. It’s golden in color and rich in essential probiotics, including L. reuteri. It’s significantly more immune-building than regular milk and even contains stem cells. Colostrum also contains an important prebiotic called HMO (human milk oligosaccharides) that feeds the probiotics found in breast milk.

Colostrum contains cholesterol and omega-3 fats, vital for brain health, and important hormones like oxytocin and cortisol.

Many infants are fed infant formula, which is essentially ultra-processed food calories. Most infant formulas are made of low-quality ingredients such as maltodextrin and soy, and they lack the immune benefits and probiotics of breast milk.

Children who were fed infant formula are more predisposed to allergies, asthma, skin problems, obesity, cognitive delays, and other health problems.

If you didn’t get colostrum as a baby, there are still many benefits of colostrum for adults. You can take colostrum in supplement form. Colostrum is beneficial for gut health and can help fix a leaky gut or gut damage. It can help lower inflammation, increase good microbes, and decrease pathogens.

Colostrum has powerful benefits for respiratory problems such as allergies and asthma. It can also help an overactive immune system and many autoimmune conditions. Colostrum helps support the thymus glands as you age and is very beneficial for age-related problems such as muscle loss, wrinkles, macular degeneration, and arthritis. It can even help with long COVID, Hashimoto’s, autism, and Lyme disease. Colostrum is heat-sensitive, so look for a freeze-dried supplement!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.