Could royal jelly be an alternative to HRT?
Scientists based in Iran found taking 'bee milk' daily was four times more effective at combating hot flushes than placebos in women going through 'the change'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Royal Jelly May Ease Adverse Effects of RCC Drug Therapy
Royal jelly, a substance secreted by worker honeybees that is the exclusive food for queen bees, may ease the adverse effects of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).01/11/2019 (Source: Kidney Cancer Association)
Source: Kidney Cancer Association - January 11, 2019 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news
Medical News Today: What are the benefits of royal jelly?
Royal jelly is a substance that bees produce to feed queen bee larvae. Potential benefits include wound healing and relieving the symptoms of menopause and premenstrual syndrome. Learn more about the possible health benefits of royal jelly here. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Honeybees may hold the secret to stem cell youth
The royal jelly that honeybees make to produce new queen bees seems to contain a secret ingredient that can keep stem cells 'young' and powerful. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news
Royal jelly research could propel cure for Alzheimer ’s, claim scientists
Researchers say similar protein to royalactin in humans builds up ‘self-renewal’ stem cellsIt is the mysterious substance that turns worker honeybees into queens and fills the shelves of health food shops which tout its unverified powers to fend off ageing, improve fertility and reinvigorate the immune system.Whether royal jelly has genuine health benefits for humans is a matter for more research, but in a study scientists have cracked one of the most enduring puzzles surrounding the milky gloop: the secret behind its queen-maker magic.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 4, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Science Bees Environment Insects Wildlife Health Alzheimer's Source Type: news
Deconstructing the superfood that determines honeybee hierarchy
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) All bee larvae eat royal jelly when they're new, but only future queens continue to eat it. To figure out why, researchers in Austria are taking a close look at the molecular ingredients of the fancy fare. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Yale scientists probe ‘magical’ royal jelly for clues to control cancer
Tapping into a fresh source from beehives on West Campus, researchers are now exploring how royal jelly might affect cell signaling and growth in cancer cells. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - July 20, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Bees: How royal jelly prevents royal offspring from falling out of their cells
(Martin-Luther-Universit ä t Halle-Wittenberg) Defying gravity: A special mixture of proteins in the larval food of bees ensures that future queen larvae survive. Surprisingly this has less to do with nourishment than with gravity. The special properties of the proteins prevent the large and heavy larvae from falling out of their cells. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have discovered how this is accomplished at a molecular level. Their study appeared in the internationally renowned journal 'Current Biology'. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 16, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
The Humble Honeybee
Honeybees are incomparable little creatures. Allow me to tell you why:
Honeybees and humans share many things in common: we socialize, dance, eat honey, touch, feel, mimic one another, sleep, enjoy nicotine, caffeine, vote and we both get sick.
After a queen honeybee lays a couple million eggs, she begins to produce fewer pheromones (or chemical scents), which cause the worker bees to feed half a dozen larvae royal jelly or pure protein as they begin rearing a new queen.
It’s up to the scout bees to locate a new site to move the existing queen and thousands of workers to create with their beeswax a new hive. The bees re...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 9, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Neonicotinoid pesticides cause harm to honeybees
One possible cause of the alarming bee mortality we are witnessing is the use of the very active systemic insecticides called neonicotinoids. A previously unknown and harmful effect of neonicotinoids has been identified by researchers. They discovered that neonicotinoids in low and field-relevant concentrations reduce the concentration of acetylcholine in the royal jelly/larval food secreted by nurse bees. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 24, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Neonicotinoid pesticides cause harm to honeybees
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) One possible cause of the alarming bee mortality we are witnessing is the use of the very active systemic insecticides called neonicotinoids. A previously unknown and harmful effect of neonicotinoids has been identified by researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center and Goethe University Frankfurt. They discovered that neonicotinoids in low and field-relevant concentrations reduce the concentration of acetylcholine in the royal jelly/larval food secreted by nurse bees. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Beyond royal jelly: Study identifies plant chemical that determines a honey bee's caste
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p-coumaric acid, plays a key role in the bees' developmental fate. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 28, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Nutrigenomics: The Diet That Can Change Your DNA
Diet and exercise. The importance of both was known to the earliest humans, but today we know much more about how food and exercise affects our minds and bodies through scientific evidence. In this two-part series, I delve into the latest science behind diet and exercise and how they are ultimately the foundation of optimal health. My last post was on the effects of exercise on the brain; here I explore nutrition:
During the winter of 1944-1945, a terrible famine swept through the Netherlands and carried on until liberation in May 1945. During this time, dubbed the "Hongerwinter," the Dutch population's nutritional intak...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
