5 Supplements to Help You Find Your Get Up and Go
by Michelle Gordon
"Royal Jelly is an amazing substance. It is secreted by the worker honeybees for consumption by the larvae and adults that become the queen bees of the hive. Royal Jelly contains vitamins A, B-complex, C, D and E. It also has the minerals calcium, copper, iron, phosphorous, potassium, silicon and sulfur. Royal Jelly contains a chemical compound called acetylcholine, which is a brain chemical required for the transmission of nerve impulses from one cell to another. Besides a boost in energy, it’s also been purported to help with anxiety, depression, and immunity. It is contraindicated for people with allergies to bees and honey, and those who are asthmatic."
5 Supplements to Help You Find Your Get Up and Go by Michelle Gordon
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"Honey developed in Israel--newly released to the US marketplace and abroad--may offer much needed fortification for those undergoing chemotherapy treatment. After 30 plus years of research, Life-Mel Honey shows promise for those undergoing the rigorous demands of cancer treatment by improving blood composition and overall wellbeing.
Based on the concept of apitherapy, where bees are feed medicinal herbs in order to produce a more potent byproduct, Life-Mel honey has shown considerable potential in clinical studies by lowering incidence of developing anemia, leucopenia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia—costly byproducts of chemotherapy. Also in the study 64 percent of patient’s hemoglobin levels improved and 32 percent reported an enhanced quality of life." Medicinal Honey from Israel May Hold Promise for Chemo Patients By Julie A. Sergel "Honey-bees are known for their sting, but scientists have now discovered they can also bite.
Bees resort to biting when faced with pests, such as parasitic mites, that are too small to sting. Close study of the biting behaviour has revealed that they secrete a chemical in their bite that stuns pests so they are easier to eject from a colony. Tests suggest the chemical could also have a role in human medicine, as a local anaesthetic." Honey-bees found to have bite that stuns from BBC © 2012 "Using honey to treat wounds is nothing new; even ancient civilizations used it in this manner. However, this is the sort of thing that usually gets relegated to 'folk healing'. It seems scientifically obvious: honey is very acidic (antibacterial), and it produces its own hydrogen peroxide when combined with the fluid which drains from a wound! The extremely high sugar content of honey means it contains very little water. So, it draws the pus and fluid from the wound, thereby speeding the healing process. Furthermore, the honey contains powerful germ-fighting phytochemicals from the plants that produced the pollen harvested by the honeybees. Having already been accepted by the overseas mainstream medical community for some time, North America finally caught on. MEDIHONEY is, according to Derma Sciences' website, 'the first honey-based product cleared for use by Health Canada and also the first cleared for use by the FDA.'"
FDA Quietly Acknowledges Medical Benefits of Honey by: Liz Walker It's not just folklore anymore; it's good, solid science.
"Most tantalizingly, honey seems capable of combating the growing scourge of drug-resistant wound infections, including group A streptococcus -- the infamous flesh-eating bug -- and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which in its most severe forms also destroys flesh. These have become alarmingly more common in recent years, with MRSA alone now responsible for half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms. So-called superbugs cause thousands of deaths and disfigurements every year, and public health officials are alarmed. Attempts in the lab to induce a bacterial resistance to honey have failed, Molan and Simon said. Honey's complex attack, they said, might make adaptation impossible. Two dozen German hospitals are experimenting with medical honeys, which are also used in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. In the United States, however, honey as an antibiotic is nearly unknown. American doctors remain skeptical because studies on honey come from abroad and some are imperfectly designed, Molan said. In a review published this year, Molan collected positive results from more than 20 studies involving 2,000 people. Supported by extensive animal research, he said, the evidence should sway the medical community -- especially when faced by drug-resistant bacteria. 'In some, antibiotics won't work at all,' he said. 'People are dying from these infections.'" Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs Brandon Keim In honor of those who have aged today.
"Bees can have their lives lengthened tenfold, an international research team headed by Dr. Gro Amdam at Arizona State University has found. The antioxidant protein vitellogenin reverses the aging process in some worker bees. This may eventually lead to breakthroughs in the research on aging in humans. The process occurs in worker bees that become nurse bees. Through the transformation process, the details of which are still sketchy, the bees experience a considerable increase in the concentration of the protein vitellogenion in their body. Vitellogenin appears to prevent and reverse oxidative stress to the bees, a process strongly associated with aging. The team observed that worker bees, which at the start of their lives have a life expectancy of about four to six weeks, could go through a process through which they would take on the characteristics of bees that are tasked with taking care of queen bees and offspring. During this process, the bees appeared to have their immune system completely renewed, and they would live to ages of six to ten months, up to ten times their original life expectancy. This means that they are radically revitalized, in essence having their aging process reversed. 'Only the bees that go from having a worker role to having caretaking duties will go through the process', Dr. Amdam says. Similar rejuvenation processes have never been observed in any other animal." Antioxidant Reverses Aging in Bees Jan Siqueland More good uses for honey.
"The saying 'you are what you eat' applies to bees too. The type of nectar they consume to create honey has a lasting chemical effect on the resulting sweet stuff. And, if the bees employ nectar from the toxic Rhododendron flower, guess what? You get toxic, 'Mad Honey.' In areas that have Rhododendrons growing wild—Turkey, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, for example—this effect has been well-known for millennia. In fact, the practice of dropping tainted honeycombs in the path of invading armies has been a well-known and often-used military tactic as far back as the Romans. Mad honey is packed with gryanotoxin, a chemical compound that binds to the sodium channels on a cell's membrane. This prevents the channels from closing, preventing the cell from inactivating—it's essentially the same process as Viagra, keeping blood flowing to a person's—ahem—'extremities.' Effects can take from a few minutes to three hours to set in—including, according to Wikipedia, 'excessive salivation, perspiration, vomiting, dizziness, weakness, paresthesia (numbness) around the mouth, and low blood pressure.' However if one overdoses on mad honey the symptoms may increase to a loss of coordination, severe muscular weakness, and bradycardia—when the heart's pace is too slow." How to Kill with Honey Andrew Tarantola Step aside Viagra, the bees are taking your place.
Royal jelly is an aphrodisiac that promotes fertility. It also increases libido and balances hormonal problems. Honey, also, is an aphrodisiac, thus the "honeymoon" following the wedding. There's nothing new under the sun. The ancients knew these secrets long before today's scientists rediscovered them. More about the amazing benefits of honeybees, this time from the sour end of the bee.
"No matter what you might first think about apitherapy, the use of honeybee products for medicinal products, there is one distinct 'element of reality,' said Dr. Theo Cherbuliez. 'With few exceptions, every bee sting hurts, period,' said Cherbuliez, who is an East Coast psychiatrist and one of the country's leading apitherapists during the past 20 years. Cherbuliez was in Seattle this weekend for the 2008 Charles Mraz Apitherapy Course and Conference, which was sponsored by the American Apitherapy Society (apitherapy.org). He presented a Friday talk on the healing qualities of bee venom while other practitioners covered the other medicinal bee products, honey, propolis, royal jelly and pollen. Among others, the weekend rolled out sessions on pain relief, multiple sclerosis treatment, allergic reactions, apitherapy for animals, legal issues of using bees for health treatments and, ouch, micro-stinging." Living Well: Proponents see a world of healing in bee stings By BOB CONDOR, SPECIAL TO THE P-I My own personal experience suggests to me that bee stings are good for pain relief. The big drug companies have not been able to duplicate the properties of bee venom, which is why we don't see apitherapy widely embraced by the scientific community. The drug companies would rather see people taking large doses of cheaply produced toxins than a small dose of natural bee venom. They have not yet figured out a way to profit from the natural benefits of bees. I don't know if that's a good thing for beekeepers or not. If apitherapy was to become mainstream medicine, would we profit from it? Or would the drug companies seize all the profits while employing cheap labor in China to provide the bee products? |
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