The immune system is a vast, complex network of different organs, cells and proteins whose function is to work together to defend the body from illness, fight off harmful substances and germs which may enter the body and to protect the body’s cells. It has one goal-to keep us healthy.

First discovered in 1939 as a protein in bovine milk and named Lactoferrin because of the high iron content which gives it a pink colour meaning it is often referred to as ‘pink gold’.