Try these nutrients to ease the digestive and immune stress the holidays may bring.

New gene technology has enabled a first-of-its-kind study whereby the effects of breast milk could be compared to the effects of formula in terms of which genes are responding in an infant’s intestinal tract. The verdict is in: breast milk is highly superior.

Immune components of bovine colostrum and milk.

Bovine colostrum inhibits nuclear factor kappaB-mediated proinflammatory cytokine expression in intestinal epithelial cells.

Augmentation of cellular immunity and protection against influenza virus infection by bovine late colostrum in mice.

Bovine colostrum in the management of nonorganic failure to thrive: a randomized clinical trial.

Immune modulatory function of abundant immune-related microRNAs in microvesicles from bovine colostrum.

Supplementation of diets with bovine colostrum influences immune function in dogs.