Pesticides on Your Plate? How to Shield Your Gut Now!

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The last time you ordered a leafy green salad, a whole grain entrée, and a dessert made with fresh fruit, did you enjoy the glyphosate, atrazine, and chlormequat that came along with it? You probably didn’t even realize that your meal was laced with some or all of these harmful chemicals, and you’re not alone. Americans are unknowingly ingesting these and other pesticides and herbicides every day with nearly everything they eat. Yet, your gut is acutely aware it’s a problem, and it’s begging you to stop. Stop the war going on inside your gut. Every time you ingest these toxic bombs, you’re furthering the degradation of gut health and actively promoting conditions such as leaky gut. Even if you believe you’re eating a healthy diet and following a health-promoting lifestyle, your gut is compromised more than you realize.

Hidden Threats in the American Food Supply

It’s becoming all too clear that contaminants in the food supply are pervasive. Thankfully, the media gets the news of these recalls out quickly so consumers are less likely to become ill. You can promote your health by avoiding these foods and/or following guidelines for safe food preparation due to pesticides. But what happens when the pesticides and herbicides have become part of the food? Washing fresh produce may remove some of the residues, but not nearly enough to render it “organic.” And don’t rely too heavily on the organic designation since pesticide drift is a common occurrence in the agricultural landscape, as can a false sense of security when the pesticide levels are “below allowable levels.”

When it’s revealed that our favorite breakfast cereals contain residues of glyphosate (old news) and now chlormequat (a toxic pesticide), do you give up your morning oatmeal? Food choices are yours, for certain, but don’t bury your head in the sand. Learn more about how these toxic chemicals affect your health, advocate for their discontinued use, and actively protect your health. Your actions today will help prevent future problems for yourself and your family.

• Glyphosate is an herbicide whose use is almost ubiquitous on conventional farms and lawns and gardens across the United States. Its use as a weed killer may be controversial, but potential health effects are frightening: liver and kidney damage; reproductive and developmental issues; and dysbiosis (changes in metabolic activities) in the gut microbiome. The consumer advocacy group Environmental Working Group revealed in 2018 that many popular brands of oat-based cereals, oatmeal, and granola products contained more than the maximum recommended amount of glyphosate; even some of the organically grown oats contained detectable amounts.
• Atrazine is a commonly used herbicide that can act as an endocrine disruptor and cause hormonal imbalances. It can cause low testosterone; reduced male fertility; and increased risk of miscarriage, birth defects, and low birth weight. Again, the Environmental Working Group reported in 2015 that harmful levels of atrazine are present in the tap water supplying 7.6 million Americans.
• Chlormequat is a highly toxic pesticide that is commonly applied to oat and grain crops to alter plant growth. Although not currently approved for use on U.S. food crops, in 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency began permitting its use on imported oats. Health issues include reproductive system damage and fetal growth disruption. According to the Environmental Working Group, the amount of chlormequat detected in Americans’ urine is increasing. In 2017, 69 percent of a group (96 study participants) had detectable levels of chlormequat; by 2023, the percentage had risen to 90 percent of the group.

Because these chemical toxins (and many others) contaminate foods we eat every day, there’s only so much we can do to avoid ingesting them. Although unintentional, daily ingestion of agricultural pesticides has become a normal part of the American diet. It’s making people less healthy, as evidenced by the escalating rates of gut health issues. With every meal, the bioaccumulation factor puts your gut health at risk. This makes advocacy to ban their use so critical. Advocacy groups like the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) are hard at work educating the public, so all of us can assert our health sovereignty and claim the right for our bodies not be a cesspool of chemicals.

Leaky Gut? My Doctor Says It Isn’t a Real Condition

Leaky gut is most certainly a real condition! And it’s really common among Americans, even people who believe they’re relatively healthy or have good family genes. The constant barrage of foodborne, waterborne, and airborne toxins on the human body can’t be ignored any longer. Whether it’s called leaky gut (colloquial term) or increased intestinal permeability (medical term), doctors are still seeing a dramatic increase in the number of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) complaints. Anyone unsure of the existence of leaky gut can settle the dispute with a simple blood or stool test called the Zonulin Test, which measures the amount of intestinal permeability. Assert your health sovereignty and insist your doctor order the Zonulin Test, so you can get on the path to a healthy gut.

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Unforeseen Dangers of Exercise and Stress on Leaky Gut

Modern lifestyle factors, including “bad” stress and intensely strenuous workouts, can exacerbate leaky gut and increase the impact of the harmful chemicals taken in by mouth. A worse-case scenario is someone who has a lot of daily life/work stress, snacks on junk food all day, and then goes for a two-hour intense workout to fix everything. Misconceptions about leaky gut are common, as are natural ways to combat it.

Bovine Colostrum: Nature’s Answer to Gut Repair and More

“All health begins in the gut.” If you want a strong gut barrier with less permeability and a balanced gut microbiome, liposomal bovine colostrum is the clinically-proven answer. A 2021 review article¹ by renowned colostrum researcher Raymond Playford, MD, provides a comprehensive description of the numerous bioactive substances present in bovine colostrum and their potential uses for gastrointestinal health and other areas. This all-natural supplement has been shown to repair the delicate gut lining and help support both gut and immune health. And because bovine colostrum is both plentiful and biocompatible, it’s the ideal solution.

After giving birth, every mammalian mother produces colostrum as her newborn’s first food prior to the changeover into mature milk. Colostrum is chockfull of immunoglobulins, growth factors, vitamins, minerals, and valuable immune bioactives from mom. This multifunctional first food is designed to seed the newborn’s gastrointestinal tract with beneficial bacteria, to provide a jumpstart to the newborn’s immune system, to seal up the newborn’s leaky gut, and to stimulate the newborn’s early growth and development. Colostrum is so important that many species outside of humans will not survive without it.

Health practitioners recommend liposomal bovine colostrum as a foundational supplement because of the vast amount of scientific research to support it. There are over 167 studies done on bovine colostrum and hundreds of other studies done on the benefits on many of the bioactives found in bovine colostrum. Later, colostrum proved its usefulness in athletes experiencing leaky gut and significant immune challenges following long-term, strenuous exercise.

The colostrum studies show bovine colostrum having a wide variety of benefits. The primary mechanism of action is repairing the gut however there are additional benefits such as promoting immune health, supporting joint and muscle health, promoting a healthy inflammatory response, and helping nurture hair, skin, and nails. With all of these benefits, colostrum is the ultimate foundational supplement that everyone should be taking to support overall health.

The Superiority of Liposomal Bovine Colostrum

Fresh bovine colostrum is extremely hard to obtain unless you live on a dairy farm. It’s certainly not available for mass consumption, and without being pasteurized, safety cannot be ensured. The next best thing is ethically harvesting the surplus colostrum that remains after the newborn calves have received their fill. Typically, a mother cow produces an excess of 8 liters of colostrum that the calf can never eat. This is what farmers harvest and sell to supplement companies. The colostrum is then processed into powdered supplements using a specialized delivery system. The technology known as liposomal delivery (LD) is key to retaining the natural benefits of colostrum and making the colostrum more absorbable and effective in the GI tract. Colostrum’s bioactive components are fragile and LD helps protect them as they transit through the digestive tract. Without LD, the colostrum would be significantly less effective.

In a Frontiers in Pharmacology paper titled, “Production of Bovine Colostrum for Human Consumption to Improve Health,” there is specific mention of the advanced benefits of liposomal delivery specific to colostrum. The author stated:

“Liposomal technology has been used to preserve bovine colostrum and increase its bioavailability for human health (Superti, 2020; Subramanian, 2021). The delivery of colostrum through the body with the reconstituted membrane phospholipids is far more effective in comparison to the colostrum without liposomal encapsulation. Furthermore, a preliminary study using liposomal encapsulated colostrum supplementation (20 g of colostrum per day) increased the bone-free lean body mass, whereas whey supplementation did not cause any increase in lean body mass (Antonio et al., 2001). With this advanced liposomal delivery system, these results indicated that there was a remarkable increase in the bioavailability of bovine colostrum. The embedding of active components into liposomes has some advantages such as enhanced bioavailability of components, controlled release of active component through the body, and prevention from any environmental factors such as temperature, oxygen, pH etc., (Mozafari et al., 2008).²”

The Colostrum Science Experts

Sovereign Laboratories has been a leader in the colostrum industry for more than 30 years. We pioneered liposomal delivery in the late 1990s because we knew it could accentuate the natural health benefits of bovine colostrum. Sovereign Laboratories believes in keeping our bovine colostrum as close to its natural state as possible, while producing a nutritional supplement that adheres to rigorous and safe manufacturing standards. Our customers’ health and well-being is our top priority. We don’t believe anyone should suffer the deleterious effects of leaky gut-related conditions. So, in addition to selling a superior supplement, we’re committed to educating consumers about leaky gut and the reasons why a lifetime commitment to liposomal bovine colostrum is so important. Your health literally depends upon it!

Implement a Colostrum Regimen Today

Protect your gut and promote your immune health by implementing a twice-daily liposomal bovine colostrum regimen. Daily colostrum ensures the GI tract receives a consistent supply of the bioactives responsible for maintaining gut barrier integrity and keeping the gut microbiome balanced. Because immune health is inextricably tied to the condition of the GI tract, taking colostrum every day going forward is the best choice you can make to repair your leaky gut and maintain its tight junctions against herbicides and pesticides in the food. Colostrum’s immune health benefits help you be better prepared to deal with the toxins and microorganisms in the food that we know about now and those that will undoubtedly be revealed in the future.

A Parting Message

It’s a fairly foregone conclusion that in this day and age, no one can escape the pervasive use of pesticides, herbicides, and other toxic chemicals in the American food supply or in the environment. Not even the people who eat “organic,” manage stress, or exercise in moderation are immune to the effects of leaky gut. Yet, with liposomal bovine colostrum supplementation every day, there’s hope that you can repair your leaky gut, ensure gut barrier integrity going forward, and encourage better health overall.

Liposomal bovine colostrum is a powerful and natural tool in the battle against gut health issues. As part of a comprehensive and proactive approach to wellness, colostrum supplementation can offer you a realistic strategy to help combat man-made toxicity which plagues us today. It’s an enormous problem with a relatively simple solution—getting back to basics and reconnecting with Mother Nature. The humble bovine, now domesticated, is the one species that is celebrated and revered throughout human history. Dairy cows provided sustenance during dangerous and uncertain times—a world where food was scarce.

Today, in dangerous and uncertain times—a world where health is scarce—bovine colostrum provides a measure of confidence that you are doing your very best to take care of yourself and your family. Think of liposomal bovine colostrum as a health insurance policy sitting on your pantry shelf. Common sense tells you it’s unwise to go without insurance, so be sure to stay the course with your daily colostrum regimen. Every day, the battle within your gut becomes a bit easier. Your gut barrier becomes a bit stronger and less leaky. Your microbiome becomes a bit more balanced. Assert your health sovereignty, and your gut will thank you.

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Studies:

1) Playford RJ, Weiser MJ. Bovine Colostrum: Its Constituents and Uses. Nutrients. 2021;13(1):265. 2) Kaplan M, Arslan A, Duman H, Karyelioğlu M, Baydemir B, Günar BB, Alkan M, Bayraktar A, Tosun Hİ, Ertürk M, Eskici G, Duar RM, Henrick BM, Frese SA, Karav S. Production of Bovine Colostrum for Human Consumption to Improve Health. Front Pharmacol. 2022 Jan 3;12:796824. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.796824. PMID: 35046820; PMCID: PMC8762312.

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