Symbiotics - Colostrum Plus Powder 21 Oz. 68201

Pure Awesome!! TASTES GREAT and mixes in about 5 to 10 seconds with my little Aerolatte battery mixer. I have just started to add a double scoop of Great Lakes Gelatin Collagen Hydrolysate which adds no flavor or thickness and dissolves instantly - I add this for bone health.I was really afraid that I would not be able to stomach a yukky taste but I was pleasantly surprised and actually took forward it. I take it when I get up, a half hour before I eat or drink anything else, and I take it about a half hour before I go to bed.I take the colostrum for my leaky gut and in particular for my upper respiratory issues. I am 68 years old. I am just about ready to finish my first container and I can say that I am pleasantly surprised with the results and expect it will just get better. When I lay down in bed at night I can hear sounds from the very upper part of my wind pipes that almost sounds like a little bird or my cat meowing in the distance. It was so bad I would change positions in bed to make it go away and sometimes I just had to deal with it, or go into a coughing mode and end up taking something to calm that. Now when I go to bed, if I hear any wheezing I can simply clear my throat and it is gone, but this is occurring less and less over this first month of use. I am thrilled to say the least. And while there are signs that I can actually hear that prove to me that the stuff works I also know it is doing wonders for the things that I am not cognizant of.I did a lot of research before I bought any colostrum. The first one I bought cost me about $100 and did not last the month. It was Sovereign brand and came in a metallic & plastic lined reclosable bag. With the Symbiotics brand I use three level scoops to equal the same amount of lgG's and PRPs that I was consuming with the Sovereign brand and one container of Symbiotics lasts a full month at a cost of ~$65.I used to be the art director at a supplements firm who sold a high grade of New Zealand colostrum. I can tell you the Sovereign brand colostrum is a high quality colostrum and I feel after using both products back-to-back they are both the same = great taste, great consistency, same color, same smell. To me they are exactly the same product but the Symbiotics brand gives you more for less $. In my opinion you will not find a better brand of colostrum at a better price. And, no, I was not paid or compensated in any way for my review.

Perfect

This is the second time to purchase this product, this time from a different seller. I got this in 3 days! I do feel colostrum has benefits, I noticed it in my performance in the gym. I could barely do the elliptical machine for 5 minutes due to muscle burn, now I can do a mile to 3 miles on it with little huffing and puffing. It does appear I'm gaining more muscle tone at a faster rate. I'm 64 yrs. old and my muscle tone was like jello. Another benefit I found is, I haven't been sick for over 2 months, to me its a benefit because, in the months of Oct., Nov, and Dec, I have always had a cold or upper respiratory infection, so far, none this year. Another benefit, I think must be from taking colostrum, after I shower, I have a lot of hair around the drain, enough that if I don't collect it, the drain plugs. In the last month, there is barely any hair around the drain. I'm hoping it's from taking the colostrum. I have been using this for about a month and a half and I eat it off a spoon, about 3 scoops 2 times a day, sometimes, in between, I just drop a scoop full in my mouth. I like the taste, kind of like a melted butter cookie. I also had a bad wind burn on my face and put the colostrum mixed with very little water on my face and the red burn went away the same day. I will keep waiting for other benefits to show up. It may work deep in the body and more benefits may take longer to show up. I also feel its better to take the powder by mouth, since the mouth has a lot of receptors, so it gets absorbed into the body faster. I will continue to use this product! This seller was prompt and I'm very satisfied.

I've only been using this product for a week and a half (oh how shocked I felt when I looked at the calendar and realized that! You'll read why...)But I felt it necessary to leave a review.I received this product on the 13th of January, a Wednesday. I took the normal dose (1 scoop) on an empty stomach a few hours before bed. Almost immediately I felt a boost of energy. In fact, it felt like I had just drank an energy drink and for the rest of the night I felt a little jittery.I followed the dosage, and by Friday I had some diarrhea (as expected, from what I read about colostrum) and I began feeling like I was being hit by the flu.Now - instead of lessening the dosage like I see many do, it made sense for me to *increase* the dosage so I could give my body more of what it needed to fight off any bugs or release toxins. I increased the dosage Saturday morning and within an hour felt fine. What could have been a weekend of feeling like I had the flu was eliminated in one hour. Great!So after that day, I've kept the increased dosage.Let me tell you a little about me: 4 years ago, I was very healthy. Bright pink tongue, no major health issues. I would get random stomach aches (terrible pain) as a kid that doctors weren't able to figure out but as a teen they just miraculously disappeared one day and never came back.Well, after an infected area in my mouth after getting wisdom teeth removed, taking rounds of antibiotics and being given pain meds with the dosage that's great for a grown man - I was told this by a different doctor who looked at the prescription I was given- (I'm a very petite, thin woman), I became plagued with candida.I've had a terrible systemic candida issue for years. I've tried absolutely everything.And ultimately gave up on everything - I eat what I want to and exercise when I want and put up with it.Now, after that weekend, I began feeling the head fog associated with candida clearing. I was getting sounder sleep, and waking up was a breeze. I believe this product helped move away the depression I was feeling. I feel great, my emotions are level, and I have absolutely no brain fog.I need to start eating better, but this makes for a good review because I did not change my decidedly crappy diet (that I recently took on) as I began taking this and yet I'm having such great experiences.I now can wake up at 5 am, still feel refreshed and go on happily about my day. This is what a healing body feels like, hm nice!Now for my dosage: I am taking a high dosage at the minimum 2 tablespoons (4 of the scoops) for the rest of the month. I figure a high dose for a shorter amount of time rather than microdoses for longer will help me with my issues.So far, I've been correct!Hey, if you are considering this product be sure to ask your doctor first if you are taking any kind of medication or vitamin. I have read that colostrum increases your ability to absorb the nutrients/medication and could cause your body to absorb way more of your medication.. Making for a dangerous situation. I am not taking anything else - not a vitamin - not medication. Just this and food and water.I will update my review after a month's time.2/3/16 UpdateSo not long after I wrote that review I began having a difficult time going to sleep at night. My mind was racing and I had too much energy. I backed off the dose completely, figuring my body had enough reserves. Right now I'm only taking this every couple of days when my body no longer feels the affects.I'm also taking the recommended dose now. I think I'm going to start exercising, and for a week straight drop the dosages and eat well. Then see where I'm at and if I want to continue dosing myself.My brain fog is still gone. The thrush on my tongue is back however the symptoms of candida have not been prevalent. I still have energy and haven't fallen sick, my body feels good and it feels healthy. I'm getting to bed early and waking up early and still have lasting energy throughout the day.This product still has been very beneficial for me.

After a 10 day round of antibiotics I ended up with nothing left in my gut but yeast. My stomach started making noises so loud my friends could hear it across the room. I have been batteling this for almost 2 years, have tried cleanses, probiotics, etc. Like others, I would win the battle for a while but any time I stopped any part of my regimin, the yeast would win. After readinging another reviewer's feedback with a very similar history, I bought the colostrum. It doesn't feel like you are doing much, but after a few weeks, I know my gut is actually healing. I had a glass of wine the other night with no cleanse, no probiotic, and the next day I had zero systems of the yeast taking over (mine always starts with very low growling in my gut and weird noises from my lower intestines. Wine seems to be what the yeast like more than anything, at least in my body.I would suggest anybody who's taken antibotics/steriods long term add probiotics and colostrum to their diet. You may have different symptoms than a loud stomach (google candida overgrowth), up to an autoimmune disease. Yeast reaks havoc on our bodies. A 90 billion cultures (probiotic) is what I'm taking now, as well as a good multivitamin, Multi B, and digestive enzymes. I will take that for the rest of my life, and will probably continue on with the colostrum, as well as eating home made fermented foods. The food we have available nowadays kills the good stuff in our gut - it's no wonder so many people are sick or just don't feel good, run down and tired.To anybody just starting this battle, don't skip one day. Try to avoid alcohol at all cost when you are just starting out, as well as sugar. Let your body build the good bacteria up and don't give it - it takes close to 2 years with dilligence. Even after 6 months if you think you are back to normal, continue on.Specific to the Colostrum - I feel what the colostrum has done is allow the damage to my gut to heal completely. Imagine having a yeast infection anywhere else in your body for 2 years, what that would look like. As my gut healed, it allowed my immune system to rebuild and my body to do what it's supposed to, balance out.I hope this helps anybody who feels like there is nothing more they can do or try, you can and will beat this, it just takes dedication and patience, a spirit of not giving up - take it one day at a time :-)