Bee Pollen, as a nutritional supplement. Anyone tried it ? Like it ? Y or N by AURaptor

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Bee Pollen, as a nutritional supplement. Anyone tried it ? Like it ? Y or N

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:49 AM

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Heard an ad for New Zealand Bee pollen on the radio. What's so special about their bee pollen? Will local stuff from the states do about the same thing ?

It's a slow Wednesday.

The T.Rex they call JANE!

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:46 PM

TUJIAOZUO

It is a slow Wednesday.

I've never heard of bee pollen, but I do use honey for my immune system. It works REALLY well, for as a person that has a practically shot immune system due to various health problems I had mint tea and honey* every day when a rash of colds went through my college dorms and I didn't even get a sniffle. Even when all of my roommates and friends were sneezing and feeling miserable.

Honey is also good for treating burns.

Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:53 PM

AURAPTOR

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NatureBee Potentiated Bee Pollen

NatureBee Potentiated Bee Pollen is the ULTIMATE all-natural supplement that boosts energy and provides nutritional support to every cell in your body.

NatureBee will will support your immune system and your mental alertness and assist your digestion. NatureBee uses various processes to enhance pollen's digestibility.

Snake Oil or legit ?

The T.Rex they call JANE!

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:04 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

I've heard that using locally-harvested honey will do wonders for your immune system, since it will expose you to pretty much every kind of pollen your system is going to encounter. Here in Austin, we have miserable allergies year 'round. I didn't have any known allergies (okay, poison ivy, but not poison oak) when I moved here in 1991; now I have SOMETHING bugging me most of the year. If it's not the molds, it's ragweed. If not ragweed, cedar; if not that, pecan. It's always something.

To make matters worse, three of the last four years I've been hit with Iridis, which is a rare occurrence - it usually hits once and never again. Chronic Iridis is apparently quite rare. When it hits, I lose vision in my right eye literally within a matter of hours. First time, I went from a little pain in my eye to legally blind in four hours; scared the bejeezus out of me. And it's hit every single year, usually in late July to mid-August, EXCEPT for the summer before last, when we had lots of rain and very few days over 100º. This year, it being exceptionally hot and dry, I'm already preparing... Fortunately, it has only hit my right eye so far.

My eye specialists are just about useless at doing anything more than treating the symptoms, and have been no help at all in finding the CAUSE of the problem. I'm fairly convinced at this point that it's allergy-related, but I haven't figured out WHICH allergen is the culprit. So I'll be laying in some locally-harvested Round Rock Yaupon Honey to try out, to see if I can head it off at the pass!

Mike

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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college...

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:38 PM

AURAPTOR

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There's a local health food store, that I think I saw advertise as selling bee pollen or some such bee product. I pass by this place daily, so it should be easy enough to remember to zip in there and see if they know what the heck they're talking about, or just some tripped out hippies, selling useless crap.

The T.Rex they call JANE!

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:42 AM

KWICKO

That's kinda funny - 'cause it's pretty much exactly how I feel about it! I'm not convinced that it does any good, but given my situation, I'm pretty darned sure it can't do any harm. I'm going to try out the local stuff.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:35 AM

AGENTROUKA

Isn't pollen basically plant sperm?

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:24 PM

KWICKO

And honey is basically where the bee spit it out.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:07 PM

BYTEMITE

Ah, honey, another thing I miss, being vegan. Very good on toast, and found in a number of cereals.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:34 PM

SERYN

I didn't realise honey was a no-no when you were vegan. Have you tried agave nectar? Its a little runnier but it might work, and if not you can always use it up in baking (its a substitue for sugar). I always preferred Lyles golden syrup, but i'm not sure if they have an equivalent in the states.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And honey is basically where the bee spit it out.

I've always made it a policy to just not think about it. Simonwho won't eat mushrooms cause he grew up near to a farm and smelled what they used to grow them in - and i make it a policy to wash well and just not think about it.

I wonder if he would eat wild mushrooms?

Thats terrible about your eyes, my mum cought a virus a few years ago that caused temporary blindness and that scared the bejeesus out of me, i hope you find something that helps!

I've never heard of using bee pollen (or even pee bollen as i tired to type first) but i've a friend that raves continually about manuka honey, and i've also heard that royal jelly does good things (its the special stuff they feed to the infant queens) though i'm sure theres also a short story about how a guy eats that and turns into a giant bee - so watch that one!

I know that honey is fantastically good for your skin, having all sorts of good properties, and what Kwicko said about eating local honey is true - if its from plants you are exposed to everyday, ingesting a little in the honey reduces the reaction (or so i'm told - hearsay alert!) Its backed up by conventional medicine - they are doing trials with children with nut allergies, giving them the minutest doses of nuts and gradually increasing, in the hope that if they accidentally take in some in everyday life the reaction would be reduced, and they've had good results.

Just to go on even more...

Vit C, garlic, echinacea and zinc are the best immune boosters. I think its Ginko thats good for energy and good old fibre does the digestion thing.
If bee pollen works then its all those in one, but i'm thinking snake oil - if they have to proces it to 'aid digestibility' i wouldn't want to be trying to eat an awful lot of it.

Then again, i think it was a 112 year old women who said the secret of her longevity was a spoonful of petroleum jelly a day...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:47 PM

AGENTROUKA

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And honey is basically where the bee spit it out.

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