The #1 Most Powerful Immune Food in the World (LIQUID GOLD)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | the most powerful immune food on planet earth, 100% designed by nature, but actually programs |
| 0:06.6 | your immune system, something so advanced, so magical, so potent that our society wouldn't even |
| 0:12.7 | exist without it. Can you guess what it is? Antiviral properties. It's also known as a wound |
| 0:17.8 | healer. Anti-tumor properties, is basically an immune system download from |
| 0:22.8 | your mom to you without having to go through all the experience of getting infections, |
| 0:28.3 | developing antibodies, and developing an immune system. It's actually something in the first |
| 0:32.5 | breast milk, colostrum. If you haven't been breastfed as an infant, you can still take colostrum. I'm going to talk about |
| 0:39.0 | all of the things that it can do for you that go way beyond strengthening your immune system. |
| 0:44.7 | Colostrum is produced in the first 24 to 72 hours after birth. It's a thick yellowy fluid, |
| 0:52.6 | kind of a golden color. Rich in probiotics, including L. Ruderi. |
| 0:57.6 | And I've done videos just on that one microbe, how it increases oxytocin, social bonding, |
| 1:03.6 | reducing stress, and why people are missing it, either they haven't been breastfed or they |
| 1:08.0 | had antibiotics because that microbe is very sensitive to antibiotics. |
| 1:12.5 | A hundred times more immune building than just regular milk. It also has stem cells as well as a very |
| 1:18.8 | important prebiotic. HMO that's going to feed the probiotic. Produced by the breast is going |
| 1:26.3 | into the baby and feeding certain really key microbes |
| 1:29.9 | that then develop the immune system. And then along with the claustrum in the breast milk, |
| 1:35.3 | you have a good amount of cholesterol, which is really important to build an infant's brain. |
| 1:40.3 | Very high levels of omega-3 fats, which a lot of your brain is made out of. You also have hormones |
| 1:45.5 | like oxytocin, you have cortisol. So in early breast milk, including claustrum, we're not just |
| 1:50.7 | feeding the baby. We are reprogramming all sorts of immune cells. We're building the body. We're |
| 1:56.7 | forming the brain, the eyes. And what's really cool about this is there's a dynamic interaction |
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