Why consume TF daily?

From the www.transferfactorresearch.com website FAQ's:

CONTINUAL USE:

Why consume TF when you are well?
Preventing a problem is safer than trying to cure it after you are ill. With the number of deadly germs that are taking their toll on our society, I plan to protect my loved ones with transfer factors. Sometimes an illness can damage body organs beyond repair. The wide benefits of transfer factors are still being explored. A healthy immune system is crucial to your overall health, cell cleansing, and cell rejuvenation. Within our bodies, there is a continuous battle between the "good" and "bad" bacteria. Giving your immune system a break can actually allow your body to direct its energies elsewhere.

Do you advise daily use? How long will the immunity last?

Yes. The Transfer Factor works best when taken daily. The volume of TF in your blood affects its effectiveness. If you discontinue use, your immune system will miss out on its daily support.The immunity received from Transfer Factor™ is short-term. When a germ enters your body or you are vaccinated, a deep survival mechanism is triggered within your immune system. The memory of the illness is stored through a different pathway to the transfer factors within your body. Experienced knowledge, exchanged from transfer factor to transfer factor, is not as long- lasting. Once the consumed transfer factor is washed from your body, within four to six weeks the immunity is lost. The information is transferred to your own transfer factor, but that transfer factor will eventually die, and the information is diluted down through a few generations.

If the immunity lasts for four weeks, why should you continue to consume more?

The volume of TF in your body is important. Every area of your body is vulnerable to attack from germs. The transfer factor must come in contact with the germ to recognize it. The more TF you have policing the body, the greater the chance that germs will be spotted early in the race for victory.

Can I still get sick when I am consuming TF?

Even a reinforced immune system can't always keep you well, but it can make a tremendous difference in how ill you become and may save the life of a loved one.

If I understand correctly, the primary function of TF is to act as a memory agent for the immune system - transferring immune programming from donor to recipient. Given the ability of the immune system to remember this transferred information, why is it necessary to keep taking it?

There are two avenues that the immune system uses to learn and store information. One is from storage to storage (transfer factor) and the other is through the encounter with the germ itself. Information that is transfered from transfer factor to transfer factor fades as each generation of transfer factor passes the information down to the next generation of transfer factor. Each generation loses information. The life of the information is approximately 5-6 weeks.
When an actual germ enters the body or a vaccination is given, the learning process is a complete immune learning experience and the memory last longer in some instances. Another reason that you must continue to consume transfer factor regularly is that volume is important. You must have a certain volume of transfer factor in your system for that particular transfer factor to have an impact on the overall immune system function. This is one reason why whole colostrum doesn't create immunity. There is not enough tf in it.

Why do we need to use Transfer Factor™ if we received immune information when we were infants?

The transfer factors we received as infants are just purposeful as those available in Transfer Factor™. As infants, mother's colostrum gave immune information while our immune systems were not fully developed, but the transfer factors were absorbed into the bloodstream and eventually were used up to become part of the functioning immune system, consisting of lymphocytes, natural killer cells, macrophages, etc. The information provided at birth was to work against the specific threats experienced by your mother at that time; after years of life new threats to the immune system exist. By using oral transfer factor we are providing the same type of immune information we received at birth.