Here's yet another good reason to eat egg yolks, and most likely part of the reason why people who are 100% Wai don't get sick very often. Egg yolks contain "transfer factors," the same stuff contained within a mother's first milk, or colostrum, that passes on immunity information to offspring (or any other animal that consumes it - transfer factors are not species-specific). Here's more info:
"Transfer factors act in the following way:
* promote the immune system's ability to remember past invasions, allowing your body to respond to similar health threats in future more quickly
* educate naive immune cells about a present or potential danger in your body along with a plan for action
* speed up the recognition phase of a health threat, making the duration of an illness shorter
* boost your immune response, or balance it by suppressing an overactive immune system
Transfer factor are crucial to our health in case of any immune system disorders:
* Immunodeficiency - when the immune system does not recognize invaders as being undesirable and therefore does not mobilize to destroy them.
* Autoimmunity (self-destruction) - when the immune system fails to recognize 'self' as friendly and mounts an attack on itself."
From: http://www.transferfactor.tv/index.php? ... &Itemid=46
Here's a short summary of what they are/do:
"Transfer factors are a set of messaging molecules that convey immune information within the immune system. Transfer factors also carry immune information from one individual's immune system to another individual. They help the immune system recognize, respond to, and remember invading organisms which threaten optimimum health.
It was initially thought that Transfer factors were only present in blood. But it was later realised that they're also present in colostrum. More recently it's been found that Transfer factors are also in egg yolk."
From: http://www.healthyhappydogs.com/TransferFactor
Here's a link to an interesting article about how they injected a hen with the Hep-B Virus, extracted antibodies from the egg yolk and tested it in vitro against the virus. Cool.. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract
Might this also mean that eating egg yolks would protect against things such as "bird flu," especially if the bird had been exposed to it and didn't become sick? So Avalon's comment that "only yolk eaters will be spared!" may not be too far off base!
I'm going to go eat some yolks now. Maybe I'll bump up my consumption 
¡Salúd!
Amber
