Comments on: 8 Lactoferrin Health Benefits + Sources & Side Effects

By: Marcia

Marcia — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:57:48 +0000

Great explanation about lactoferrin, thank you!
I have a doubt, if lactoferrin increases the production of cytokine, can I still take it with corona virus going on? For what I understood, the cytokine storm causes trombosis in patients with covid, should I stop taking my daily 300mg cap of lactoferrin?

By: Patrick Berry

Patrick Berry — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:40:30 +0000

60 to 80% of lactoferrin may survive the stomach but only about 1% is absorbed. Let me know if you come up with practical ideas how to absorb it better. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012080_Oral_Delivery_of_Lactoferrin_A_Review

By: John B.

John B. — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:28:14 +0000

What would be a good lactoferrin supplement in your opinion?

By: Jeffrey Florentino

Jeffrey Florentino — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:10:39 +0000

In reply to Leslie.

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By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 01:53:29 +0000

Would lactoferrin be advised for low serum iron with high ferritin (inflammation)?
The other question I have is — If it is advised, would it raise my serum iron without raising ferritin level?
If so, how does it do this?

By: Jeffrey Florentino

Jeffrey Florentino — Mon, 06 May 2019 02:21:05 +0000

In reply to Rachel.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:31:55 +0000

What about for people with dairy sensitivity? Some say because its from the early milk, I wont be sensitive to it. Any advice? Thanks.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:49:56 +0000

In reply to Memeth Vane. 7g/L is not correct. In DuPont et al, "Determination of bovine lactoferrin concentration in cheese with specific monoclonal antibodies," they measure values of 150-200 mg/L for milk, which seems far more reasonable.

By: lucy

lucy — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:14:16 +0000

Which lactoferrin do you recommend to raise my ferritin levels?

By: Memeth Vane

Memeth Vane — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:36:36 +0000

Your citation only gives the abstract of the study on Lactoferrin content in Bovine Milk.

You say that Colostrum and Bovine Milk contain 7G/L, which doesn’t make sense as First Milk is known to contain more Lactoferrin than regular milk, I would imagine Colostrum and Milk have different levels of Lactoferrin.

7G/L is pretty high, it would make supplementing with Lactoferrin completely pointless (supplements contain 250-500mg from what I’ve found). And anyone who drinks milk would not experience any benefits whatsoever from Lactoferrin supplementation.

And this would also mean that anyone who drinks plenty of milk will have very low susceptibility to biofilm formation and bacterial overgrowth assuming your write-up on the benefits of Lactoferrin is as good as it seems.

Also Bovine milk would also heavily prevent iron deficient anaemia, especially in regards to lower ferritin. My ferritin is 18ng/L as a male, and I drink a lot of milk, so now I’m questioning whether or not the Lactoferrin I just bought will do anything to help increase my ferritin.

By: GB

GB — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:35:14 +0000

No, Apolactoferrin will not reduce Iron, if anything it would help to increase Iron more, as it can grab onto more free iron in the body and bring it to where it needs to be.

Holo-Lactoferrin is not a metal chelator, it’s a transferrin. Increasing Holo-Lactoferrin will increase bioavailable Iron to the body, and decrease Free oxidized Iron.

Sure if what you mean is that it will remove toxic Iron from the body, I guess in a sense that’s correct, as it turns it into bioavailable Iron, but it isn’t removing it from the body.

By: Younas khan

Younas khan — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 05:51:55 +0000

who can we stop lactoferine in camel milk making yoghurt.

By: Nichole Beury

Nichole Beury — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:51:48 +0000

I think it is important to make the distinction between apolactoferrin and what most are labeled as lactoferrin. Lactoferrin tends to help absorb iron, but apolactoferrin reduces iron. If you are trying to reduce high iron levels, apolactoferrin is what you want, if you get lactoferrin, it will increase iron levels, as the literature suggests. Lactoferrin is used by anemics, apolactoferrin for hemochromatotosis (high iron).

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:26:09 +0000

Is lactoferrin safe for long term use? There’s no study yet about this one, so I’m afraid to use lactoferrin.

By: Rachel Garner

Rachel Garner — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 02:08:57 +0000

I’m so glad to find information regarding antibiotics for biofilm bacteria. Lactoferrin sounds safe to use and important to have on hand, in this day and age, where existing antibiotics are on the wane. Besides, I have been having devastating results from modern drug antibiotics and their side effects.

By: CS

CS — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 17:56:53 +0000

Guys, I found this great study reviewing lactoferrin’s function

The Biological role of Lactoferrin…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1793702/