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What Is Pollen? 

Pollen is the male seed of flowers. It is required for the fertilization of the plant.  The tiny particles consist of 50/1,000-millimeter corpuscles, formed at the free end of the stamen in the heart of the blossom.  Every variety of flower in the universe puts forth a dusting of pollen.  Many orchard fruits and agricultural food crops do, too. 

Bee pollen is the food of the young bee and it is approximately 40% protein.  Bee Pollen contains 185 of the known nutritional ingredients; 22 amino acids and higher amounts of the eight essential ones than most high protein foods, 27 mineral salts, the entire range of vitamins, hormones, carbohydrates and fats and more than 5,000 enzymes and coenzymes, necessary for digestion, healing and for the continuity of life itself.

Bee Pollen contains all of the nutrients needed to sustain life.

How is Pollen collected?

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.

The bee pollen is collected in a basket at the entrance of the hive when the bee enters the hive through the ‘pollen trap’ the bee pollen is knocked from the bees legs and the process of collecting begins again.

Some benefits of 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 flu (it has antibiotic type properties), and helping overcome retardation and other developmental problems in children.

Bee Pollen is used to boost immune function, and for detoxifying the body and anyone over the ages of 2 years can benefit.  There have been a number of clinical trials with respect to its promising ability to ward off cancerous tumors in mice.

Athletes often use bee pollen for endurance, strength, stamina, and mental clarity.  There have also been some studies that show it may help in alleviating allergies.   A number of Olympic athletes and prominent professional boxers have attributed their improved energy and stamina to a regular intake of bee pollen.

Bee pollen has helped manage menstrual pain and irregularities.  For two months, half of the women in the study were given a mixture of bee pollen and royal jelly, and the other half a placebo. Almost all the women taking bee products demonstrated vast improvement or total disappearance of menstrual pain. The placebo group showed little or no change.

Experiments reveal that bee pollen is an amazing biological stimulant with healing properties.  Treatment with bee pollen improved energy levels, relieved constipation and diarrhea and acted as a tranquilizer for hyperactive patients.  Other effects were increased blood hemoglobin (the part of the red blood cell) and stress reduction at the cellular level.

Bee pollen may also protect against wind-borne allergens that cause hay fever and even asthma.

Bee pollen reportedly can keep the skin youthful looking. Lars Erik Essen, M.D., a dermatologist in Halsingborg, Sweden, said that pollen exerts a powerful biological influence in preventing premature aging of cells and in stimulating growth of new skin tissue.  Dr. Essen said that bee pollen can help deliver more blood to the skin cells, guard against dehydration and smooth away shallow wrinkles.

The British Sports Council recorded increases in strength of as high as 40 to 50 percent in those taking bee pollen regularly.  Pollen allows super-stars to increase their strength and stamina up to 25 percent.  This increase in strength and endurance may be the key to the secret regenerative power of bee pollen.  Bee pollen causes a definite decrease in pulse rate. The beauty of bee pollen is that it's as natural as you can get.  No chemicals.  No steroids. 

It has been reported that bee pollen in the diet acts to normalize cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood: Upon the regular ingestion of bee pollen, a reduction of cholesterol and triglycerides was observed. High-density lipoproteins (HDL) increased, while low-density lipoproteins (LDL) decreased. A normalization of blood serum cholesterol levels is also seen. 

Bee pollen works wonders in a weight-control or weight-stabilization regimen by correcting a possible chemical imbalance in body metabolism that may be involved in either abnormal weight gain or loss.  The normalizing and stabilizing effects of this perfect food from the bees are phenomenal.  When you are overweight, phenylalanine exerts a natural appetite suppressant effect.  If you need to gain weight, the phenylalanine in bee pollen works in reverse. 

In weight-loss programs, bee pollen stimulates the metabolic processes.  It speeds caloric burn by lighting and stoking the metabolic fires. Bee pollen offers 15 percent lecithin by volume.  Lecithin is a substance that helps dissolve and flush fat from the body.  This is one reason why bee pollen lowers low-density lipoproteins (LDL) surer and faster than any other food while helping increase the helpful high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which science says protect against cholesterol and heart disease. 

Complete Food?

Various foods have been hailed as "perfect".  One that deserves this distinction but is rarely mentioned is bee pollen.  Studies from all over the world indicate that the pollen collected by bees is worth its weight in gold.  

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 is nature’s most complete food, rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and a complete source of protein.  It can give us that extra edge to stay healthy.  Get the edge.  Take pollen.  An all around nutritional supplement, bee pollen is ideal for daily use.

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 granule, contains over two million flower pollen grains and one teaspoonful contains over 2.5 billion grains of flower pollen. 

Components of Bee Pollen

Main Ingredients : Protein 21.2 %, Carbohydrates 48.5 %, Fatty acids 9.9 %, Ash 3.5 %, Fibre 14.2 %

• Thiamine (vitamin B1) - Indicated for the treatment of the toxic effects of alcohol and certain medicine, the curing the edemas, the treatment of shingles, and heart conditions myocarditis and tachycardia, and in regimen for diabetes.
• Riboflavin (vitamin B2) - In opthomology, necessary to cure conjunctivitis, disorders of retinal adaption, some skin diseases and alleviate migraines.
• Pyridoxine (vitamin B6) - Required for the formation of hemoglobin and used to combat nervousness, fatigue, muscular weakness, brain tumors, anemia, Parkinson's disease, arteriosclerosis of the brain, and radiation sickness.
• Nicotinic Acid (Nicotinamide) - Acts on the formation of blood, is used in the treatment of toxic overload, diabetes mellitus, gastrointestinal problems, asthma, neuralgia, fights migraine and tinnitus, and lower cholesterol.
• Pantothenic Acid (Part of B-complex) - Effectively speeds the cure of wounds, gangrene, various ulcers,    herpes, bedsores, inflammatory infections of the mouth, colds, bronchitis, infectious hepatitis and minor skin problems.
• Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) - Stimulating antitoxic effects.  Beneficial against colds, respiratory distress, and is useful in metabolizing calcium.
• Retinol (vitamin A) - Effective against infections, dry eyes, and night blindness.
• Tocopherol (vitamin E) - Assists oxygenation of the cellular level and fights sterility.  Has anticoagulant properties and improves blood circulation.

Modern researchers today are proving what our ancestors already knew yesterday; that eating bee pollen every day will keep many maladies at bay.

Precautions and other Bee Pollen Facts

The above information should not be seen as a claim for any remedial properties, it is entirely based on experience of bee pollen users, and therefore it is advisable to consult your physician or homeopath regarding treatment.

Please note that the body's response to bee products varies from person to person, including the length of time for certain results to occur.  It does not always guarantee total healing from every disease or illness. However, the overall results in all our customers has been positive in the area of improved health - many very dramatically. That is why, once a person has enjoyed the benefits of these products, they do not want to give it up or return to their old vitamins and medications.

Dosages ;

Adults : Half to 1 teaspoon or 1 to 4 capsules daily.   Endurance runners and weight lifters can take up to 4 teaspoons a day.  If you have allergies take half the recommended dosage of pollen in the morning and half again in the afternoon.
Children : over the age of two can start with 3 to 4 granules or 1 capsule in the morning.  This can be increased over time dependent on the child’s needs.

Allergy Test :  If you have never taken pollen before and just want to be sure, break open a capsule to take a couple of granules and place them under your tongue and allow them to dissolve.  If no adverse reaction is noticed, next morning take a few granules.  By having a gradual introduction to pollen you have a good chance of overcoming allergies which many people suffer each year.  Over the period of a couple of weeks you can build yourself up to the full strength dosage.

Warning : Although there are many benefits of Bee Pollen, those who are allergic to bees should avoid bee pollen (and other bee products). 

Disclaimer
None of the information on this brochure is intended to replace sound medical advice, nor is it recommended for people to stop their prescribed medications.  Seek medical advice if symptoms persist.