Colostrum As A Potential Treatment?

[Dimitri001]

I've been looking for a keto shampoo and I stumbled onto this one, which features colostrum. They back it's inclusion up by saying "Users have also reported hair re-growth" lol, but I got curious and got to googling and I found this.

"Colostrum is the first secretion product of mammary gland after birth and represents a natural source of vitamins, immunoglobulin, cytokines, hormones, and growth factors. All these factors stimulate tissues turnover, regulate energetic metabolism and strengthen the immune system. For these beneficial features, colostrum has been traditionally used to treat several diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and bacterial infections. Bovine colostrum promotes growth and migration of both epithelial and mesenchymal cells. Moreover, the mitogenic capacity of bovine colostrum on human keratinocytes has been demonstrated. The combination of growth factors and active molecules contained in colostrum makes it an efficient natural product able to improve wound healing. Furthermore, recent experimental data show the association of new hair follicles to the spontaneous wound healing process. Bovine colostrum composition has been only partially defined. However, some elements are known to be contained also in platelet rich plasma (PRP), which represent one of the most recent and effective tool to counteract androgenetic alopecia.Based on the above hypothesis described, the new cosmetic ingredient RTF-1 (bovine colostrum) may favor the renewal of hair follicles on glabrous skin areas and may represent a useful natural presidium against androgenetic alopecia. Will be discussed the results of in vitro and clinical studies of this new active ingredient."

It's just a hypothesis and it all just kinda sounds like she's fishing for reasons why this might work, but she does mention in vitro and clinical studies, however I can't find access to the whole text.

Does anyone know where the whole thing might be found or do you know any research done on this thing?

 

[Throwaway94]

I've been looking for a keto shampoo and I stumbled onto this one, which features colostrum. They back it's inclusion up by saying "Users have also reported hair re-growth" lol, but I got curious and got to googling and I found this.

"Colostrum is the first secretion product of mammary gland after birth and represents a natural source of vitamins, immunoglobulin, cytokines, hormones, and growth factors. All these factors stimulate tissues turnover, regulate energetic metabolism and strengthen the immune system. For these beneficial features, colostrum has been traditionally used to treat several diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and bacterial infections. Bovine colostrum promotes growth and migration of both epithelial and mesenchymal cells. Moreover, the mitogenic capacity of bovine colostrum on human keratinocytes has been demonstrated. The combination of growth factors and active molecules contained in colostrum makes it an efficient natural product able to improve wound healing. Furthermore, recent experimental data show the association of new hair follicles to the spontaneous wound healing process. Bovine colostrum composition has been only partially defined. However, some elements are known to be contained also in platelet rich plasma (PRP), which represent one of the most recent and effective tool to counteract androgenetic alopecia.Based on the above hypothesis described, the new cosmetic ingredient RTF-1 (bovine colostrum) may favor the renewal of hair follicles on glabrous skin areas and may represent a useful natural presidium against androgenetic alopecia. Will be discussed the results of in vitro and clinical studies of this new active ingredient."

It's just a hypothesis and it all just kinda sounds like she's fishing for reasons why this might work, but she does mention in vitro and clinical studies, however I can't find access to the whole text.

Does anyone know where the whole thing might be found or do you know any research done on this thing?

It's hard to take seriously a paper that quotes PRP as "one of the most effective tools". They're have no citations to back up their claims and they're trying to sell their colostrum product. I'm sure it's right up there with lactoferrin.

 

[Dimitri001]

It's hard to take seriously a paper that quotes PRP as "one of the most effective tools". They're have no citations to back up their claims and they're trying to sell their colostrum product. I'm sure it's right up there with lactoferrin.

I thought PRP was an effective recent treatment, isn't it?

Well, they have no citations because it's just the abstract. They say they "Will be discussed the results of in vitro and clinical studies of this new active ingredient."

The fact that it's a company that published this is a reason to be skeptical, but not to dismiss it outright.

 

[Throwaway94]

I thought PRP was an effective recent treatment, isn't it?

Well, they have no citations because it's just the abstract. They say they "Will be discussed the results of in vitro and clinical studies of this new active ingredient."

The fact that it's a company that published this is a reason to be skeptical, but not to dismiss it outright.

If it is it's one of the least effective. The DOI they include is a dead end so their results don't seem to have been published in a journal, rather this is just the abstract for a presentation they gave for marketing purposes.
I've studied colostrum at length for other reasons and I firmly believe that anything in there that might help hair growth has much better sources elsewhere.

 

[John Difool]

All these sites using a chem vial clipart and writing some marketing bs in the name of science with no proof whatsoever make me sick.