Holy Cow: The Miracle of Life's First Food is your guide to the natural healing power of bovine colostrum. From the moments after your birth, mother's colostrum provides the jump start your immune system needs to help you survive in this new microbe-filled environment. Ever-present immune challenges threaten your very existence on a daily basis. To survive and thrive (and age well) depends on a strong and competent immune system. Immune resilience and whole-body homeostasis are important throughout the human life cycle, and in this book, author Douglas A. Wyatt champions the use of bovine colostrum use for overall health and vitality.

Holy Cow explores the historical use of colostrum and milk from Ancient Egypt to the present day, with an emphasis on encouraging new moms to practice early and extended breast feeding. With an exploding crisis of chronic and autoimmune diseases in Western societies, Mr. Wyatt explains colostrum's role in halting leak gut, preventing the crossover of toxins from the gut to the rest of the body, and curtailing inappropriate inflammatory reactions which over time contribute to disease, debilitation, and premature death. Bovine colostrum has emerged as an efficacious nutritional supplement with wide-ranging applications.

Cows have played a major role in various religions around the world, and bovine veneration was common among civilizations which depended on colostrum and milk for sustenance.