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For my seasonal pollen allergies here's what I do. a) Take a spoonful of dried bee bread b) Take 2 spoonful of local honey c) Add 100ml warm water d) Stir it until the bee-bread dissolves e) Drink it. (Starts acting in 10 minutes) Anyone know why it works?

How often do you do this, and how long do the effects last? Do your allergies stop bothering you entirely? I am plagued by hayfever in the warm season and my only option seems to be to munch antihistamines each morning, or twice a day sometimes.

Flonanse is a gift from the gods for me and is now over the counter. Try it! It works immediately for me and better than anything else. Your mileage may vary.

You can also see an allergist for actual immunotherapy but you have to commit to getting regular shots (decreasing in frequency) for a few years which can be pretty inconvenient especially because you must stay at the office for a half hour afterwards to make sure there was no life threatening reaction... but it is the only thing that could actually cure you of allergies after the immunotherapy is stopped.

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Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread? > But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’. This implies…

You aren't going to go to a wild hive and collect their food. Apiarists make their own hives, and maintain them. An increased demand for bee bread would probably work to counteract declining honeybee populations, by spawning more human-managed hives.

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Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread? > But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’. This implies…

You aren't going to go to a wild hive and collect their food. Apiarists make their own hives, and maintain them. An increased demand for bee bread would probably work to counteract declining honeybee populations, by spawning more human-managed hives.

Human-managed honeybee populations are not in decline.

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Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread? > But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’. This implies…

Milk is food for baby cows.

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Bee Bread is awesome and much more nutritious and digestible than flower pollen (mistakenly called bee pollen) which the bees ferment in their hive to make bee bread. The problem I've found is that anything coming from Lithuania or Latvia (a lot on ebay), could be radioactive from Chernobyl, as radioactivity concentrates in pollen. That's my assessment of it anyway, so I won't risk it. Also, there was another acciden…

Do you have any evidence or source that proves your claims about radioactive bee bread in Latvia and Lithuania? These countries actually were not affected that much. Much less than Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#National_an...

You should actually be worried about pesticides which kills bees and poisons bee honey and bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees

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Bee Bread is awesome and much more nutritious and digestible than flower pollen (mistakenly called bee pollen) which the bees ferment in their hive to make bee bread. The problem I've found is that anything coming from Lithuania or Latvia (a lot on ebay), could be radioactive from Chernobyl, as radioactivity concentrates in pollen. That's my assessment of it anyway, so I won't risk it. Also, there was another acciden…

Do you have any evidence or source that proves your claims about radioactive bee bread in Latvia and Lithuania? These countries actually were not affected that much. Much less than Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#National_an... You should actually be worried about pesticides which kills bees and poisons bee honey and bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees

Its strange where radioactive particles end up. In the Black Forest its in fungi that grow on trees, a favorite food of wild board. So all wild boar taken in the Black Forest must be tested with a Geiger counter before the meat can be sold! Over 500 REMS (?) and no sale.

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That was a fascinating read! Who would have guessed that bees intentionally ferment food sources. I wonder if there is anything humans can learn from bee fermentation process. So cool, thanks for sharing!

I think "intentionally" might be a bit of an overstatement — it's more like their behavior patterns have evolved in response to the benefits of fermentation.

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Bee Bread is awesome and much more nutritious and digestible than flower pollen (mistakenly called bee pollen) which the bees ferment in their hive to make bee bread. The problem I've found is that anything coming from Lithuania or Latvia (a lot on ebay), could be radioactive from Chernobyl, as radioactivity concentrates in pollen. That's my assessment of it anyway, so I won't risk it. Also, there was another acciden…

How is bee bread "more digestible?" I've never had an issue digesting honey. Do others? Is it common for honey to cause gastrointestinal symptoms?

Re: Bee Bread

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This might be it. Very interesting!!

It most certainly is not. You don't respond immediately to immunotherapy and certainly not in 10 minutes.

.. unless you've been doing the "10-minute fix" for some years ..
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