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Bee Pollen | Bee Propolis | Royal Jelly Bee Pollen
Bee pollen rejuvenates your body, stimulates organs and glands, enhances vitality, and brings about a longer life span. Bee pollen's ability to consistently and noticeably increase energy levels makes it a favorite substance among many world class athletes and those interested in sustaining and enhancing quality performance." - Steve Schecter, N.D. The Use of Bee Pollen as a Super-Food, By Dr. Joseph MercolaWhat Is Pollen?
Gathering pollen is not as easy as it sounds. Once a honeybee arrives at a flower, she settles herself in and nimbly scrapes off the powdery loose pollen from the stamen with her jaws and front legs, moistening it with a dab of the honey she brought with her from the hive. The enlarged and broadened tarsal segments of her legs have a thick trimming of bristles, called pollen combs. The bee uses these combs to brush the gold powder from her coat and legs in mid-flight. With a skillful pressing movement of her auricle, which is used as a hammer, she pushes the gathered gold into her baskets. Her pollen baskets, surrounded by a fringe of long hairs, are simply concave areas located on the outside of her tibias. When the bee's baskets are fully loaded, the microscopic golden dust has been tamped down into a single golden grain, or granule.
Honeybees do double duty. They are programmed to gather pollen and carry it back to the hive as food for the colony. However, even more important as far as humans are concerned, they are also responsible for the pollination of more than 80 percent of green growing things. As bees buzz from blossom to blossom, microscopic pollen particles coat their stubby little bodies so densely that they sometimes look like little yellow fuzz balls. When they arrive at the next flower, a portion of the live golden dust is transferred to that blossom and pollination is accomplished. It is important to recognize that a one teaspoon dose of pollen takes one bee working eight hours a day for one month to gather. Each bee pollen pellet, contains over two million flower pollen grains and one teaspoonful contains over 2.5 billion grains of flower pollen.
Pollen is considered an energy and nutritive tonic in Chinese medicine. Cultures throughout the world use it in a surprising number of applications: for improving endurance and vitality, extending longevity, aiding recovery from chronic illness, adding weight during convalescence, reducing cravings and addictions, regulating the intestines, building new blood, preventing infectious diseases such as the cold and flue (it has antibiotic type properties), and helping overcome retardation and other developmental problems in children. It is thought to protect against radiation and to have anti-cancer qualities. Nutrient deficiencies and all the health problems they cause are recognized worldwide as a growing problem. Because bee pollen contains all the nutrients needed to sustain life, it is being used on an ever larger scale for human nourishment and health. Science teaches that bee pollen contains many substances that combine to make it a healthy, nutritious, complete food. There are numerous reports from medical experience that conclusively show the benefits of bee pollen exceed that of a simple food item. And the bees do most of the work. Bee-gathered pollens are rich in proteins, free amino acids, vitamins, including B-complex, and folic acid.
Bee pollen is a complete food and contains many elements that products of animal origin do not possess. Bee pollen is more-rich in proteins than any animal source. It contains more amino acids than beef, eggs, or cheese of equal weight. Bee pollen is particularly concentrated in all elements necessary for life. » Place a wholesale order or request more information 
Bee PropolisHoneybees gather propolis from tree bark and leaves. The resin is combined with nectar to make a mixture of wax, pollen and bee bread. This unique substance is then used to seal their hives, which acts to protect the hives from outside contaminants. Additionally, the propolis is used at the entrance to the hive for bees to sterilize themselves when entering the hive.
Known as "Nature's Penicillin"
Like bee pollen and royal jelly, propolis also contains a number of unidentified compounds which work together synergistically to create a perfectly balanced, nutritive substance. » Place a wholesale order or request more information
Royal JellyWhat is Royal Jelly?Did you know Queen Bees are made, not born? Feeding them “royal jelly” is the catalyst for this extraordinary metamorphosis. Without the eating of royal jelly, this development could not be accomplished. Royal jelly is a thick, richly nutritious, milky-white, creamy liquid secreted by the hypopharyngeal glands of the nurse bees. Royal jelly is the exclusive food for the Queen, which enables their increased size and weight (60% heavier and 42% larger than worker bees) and extended life span (40 times longer than worker bees). In the wild, Queen bees will produce more than 2,000 eggs per day during the season after only being fertilized once. As incredible as that may sound, she can do this for up to five years. Properties of Royal Jelly
Acetylcholine (Ach) was first identified in 1914 by Henry Hallett Dale for its actions on heart tissue. It was confirmed as a neurotransmitter by Otto Loewi who initially gave it the name vagusstoff because it was released from the vagus nerve. Both received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their work. Additional studes that followed showed that when acetylcholine binds to acetylcholine receptors on skeletal muscle fibers, it opens ligand gated sodium channels in the membrane. Sodium ions then enter the muscle cell, stimulating muscle contraction. Acetylcholine, while inducing contraction of skeletal muscles, instead induces decreased contraction in cardiac muscle fibers. This distinction is attributed to differences in receptor structure between skeletal and cardiac fibers. Acetylcholine is also used in the brain, where it insights excitatory actions. The glands that receive impulses from the parasympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system are also stimulated in the same way. Royal jelly is a defining name for a nutritiously defined super food ingredient supporting the 21st century healthy diet.
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"Bee
pollen is often referred to as nature's most complete food. Human
consumption of bee pollen is praised in the Bible, other religious
books, and ancient Chinese and Egyptian texts. It has long been
prescribed by traditional health practitioners -- including the
fathers of Western medicine Hippocrates, Pliny the Elder, and Pythagoras-for
its healing properties.
Bee
pollen is the food of the young bee and it is approximately 40%
protein. It is considered one of nature's most completely nourishing
foods. It contains nearly all nutrients required by humans. About
half of its protein is in the form of free amino acids that are
ready to be sued directly by the body. Such highly assimilable protein
can contribute significantly to one's protein needs.
One
of the most interesting facts about bee pollen is that it cannot
be synthesized in a laboratory. When researchers take away a bee's
pollen-filled comb and feed her manmade pollen, the bee dies even
though all the known nutrients are present in the lab-produced synthesized
food. Many thousands of chemical analyses of bee pollen have been
made with the very latest diagnostic equipment, but there are still
some elements present in bee pollen that science cannot identify.
The bees add some mysterious "extra" of their own. These
unidentifiable elements may very well be the reason bee pollen works
so spectacularly against so many diverse conditions of ill health.
Bee
Pollen Benefit: Complete Nutrition 
According
to researchers at the Institute of Apiculture, Taranov, Russia,
"Honeybee pollen is the richest source of vitamins found in
Nature in a single food. Even if bee pollen had none of its other
vital ingredients, its content of rutin alone would justify taking
at least a teaspoon daily, if for no other reason than strengthening
the capillaries. Pollen is extremely rich in rutin and may have
the highest content of any source, plus it provides a high content
of the nucleic RNA [ribonucleic acid] and DNA [deoxyribonucleic
acid]." 
While
propolis has recently reawakened to discovery, its usefulness can
be traced as far back as Hippocrates, whose applications found benefits,
both internally and externally for healing sores and ulcers. Others
have found effective benefits when used in an ointment for inflammation
and fever. The Soviet Union during WWII, treated battle wounds with
a salve application using propolis. propolis is widely used for
its antibacterial and immune system boosting properties.
Known
as “nature’s Penicillin,” Propolis has been shown
to effectively fight bacterial strains that have become resistant
to synthetic antibiotics. Additionally, synthetic antibiotics produce
a variety of side effects, whereas propolis, a natural antibiotic,
has no known side effects.
The
main chemical compound of royal jelly is acetylcholine. Acetylcholine
is an ester of acetic acid and choline with the chemical formula
CH3COOCH2CH2N+(CH3)3. This structure is reflected in the systematic
name, 2-(acetyloxy)-N,N,N-trimethylethanaminium.
Studies
Indicate the Effectiveness of Royal Jelly