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Bee Pollen History

As long ago as 1200 BC there are records of civilizations utilizing beehive products such as bee pollen, royal jelly, propolis, honey and bee venom, as sources of nutrition and as medicinal aids. Royal jelly was used to promote energy and fertility, bee pollen and honey were consumed for the benefits to energy and as health tonics. Bee propolis was taken and used as an antiseptic in the treatment of cuts and wounds, mouth sores and ulcers.
Bee products like bee pollen are high in vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids. Much of what we ingest, particularly in vitamin supplement form, is expelled by the body without any real benefit being taken. With the live enzymes and easily assimilated nutrients of bee products, the body takes the vitamins, minerals and amino acids and puts them to good use. However, bee pollen can benefit from a process which is termed 'potentiation' to break down the pollen husks and improve their rate of assimilation into the body.
Bee pollen of course has its uses as many of us know, and it has been passed along through generations as a 'real' health tonic, gaining popularity and reputation many centuries before the advent of conventional vitamin supplements. The vitamins available in Bee Pollen come to you straight from Mother Nature. Among the most important vitamins contained in Bee Pollen are the major B vitamins – Vitamins B1, B2, B6, and B12, all necessary for efficient bodily metabolism. The B vitamins found in Bee Pollen can help your cells renew themselves more easily, as these vitamins facilitate cell division. Every day your body makes millions of new cells to replace worn out ones, and the vitamins in Bee Pollen may help with this daily renewal. There are quite a few conditions which can arise from Vitamin B deficiency, but a regular supplement of Bee Pollen may help to prevent these.

The protein content of Bee Pollen is also quite high. The level of protein will depend, at least in part, on the kind of pollen that has been gathered by the bees. Certain plants will produce pollen that will be of a higher quality than others. How the substance is handled by the beekeeper will also have an impact on the protein quality of the Bee Pollen. Responsible beekeepers will harvest the substance every day from the pollen traps and freeze/process it immediately to preserve its protein content and quality. Generally, protein in Bee Pollen will make up 20% to 40% of its content.
We all expect immediate results with everything we do in life and often times we give up on something too soon. With bee products, there can be immediate benefits in terms of energy and an enhanced feeling of calmness and well-being, but there are longer-term benefits which may work silently on the immune system, boosting immunity and our resilience to viral and bacterial infections.
Still there are those skeptics among us who despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, still feel that there are no benefits derived from bee products and other vitamin supplements. For those people I would suggest a look towards a more scientific analysis of royal jelly and other products from the beehive. Rich in Vitamins C, A, and E, carotenoids, folic acid, B vitamins, collagen, lecithin (often associated with weight control), amino acids, rutin (a strong antioxidant), and minerals such as magnesium, calcium manganese, and copper, bee products contain the building blocks of life and the capacity to sustain life with only the addition of water.
Certain processes, typically the application of heat during dehydration, or pasteurization, can kill the enzymes in bee products and marginalize their health benefits. So if you plan to try them, you owe it to yourself to research and select products from one of a handful of bee product 'specialists', who understand the processes and have the equipment to manage these substances with the requisite care needed. As you conduct your own research you will no doubt run into the controversy of 'freeze-drying' royal jelly. Most royal jelly appears in powdered form, capsulated for convenience, and the most common process used to extract the water is termed 'freeze drying' or 'lyophilization'. If done properly, this process removes only the water by blasting cold air over the liquid. No heat is ever applied and the nutritional integrity of the substance is retained. But there are a few marketing based claims which erroneously suggest otherwise.
With so much nutritional power packed into Bee Pollen, it is easy to understand why many people have come to rely on this as a nutritional supplement. This is food as nature has made it, without additives or preservatives.