This Honey Bee Product Will Make You Live Longer

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Royal jelly, AKA “bee milk,” is a combo of water, proteins and sugar that comes from worker bees and it’s fed to queen bees to help them grow. Queen bees are about twice the size of worker bees and they live about 40 times longer, so royal jelly has to be part of the equation for their longevity. As it relates to humans, royal jelly has many benefits.

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Royal jelly includes minerals like calcium, copper, iron, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium and a significant amount of B vitamins like biotin (great for hair health) and folate. There’s also 17 different kinds of amino acids including eight essential amino acids that your body cannot produce on its own.

If you take royal jelly on a regular basis, it can help with reducing inflammation, cholesterol control, infertility issues and its antioxidant agents have been shown to decrease the risk of breast cancer. Just like anything else, it’s possible you could experience side effects like a little weight gain and stomach discomfort if you take too much, but everything in moderation.

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When it comes to taking any new kind of supplement, you should always start out in small doses just to make sure you don’t have any kind of allergic reaction. It’s pretty rare that someone would have a reaction to royal jelly, but it’s best to be on the safe side.

The most common methods for taking the nutrient-packed bee product would be in capsule or powdered form. If it’s good enough for queen bees, it should be good enough for us.

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Bees are just about one of the hardest working creatures on the planet (obviously the phrase “busy bee” exists for a reason) and we owe them a lot of thanks for their tireless work ethic. The world would cease to exist as we know it without them.

One Green Planet says “bees are responsible for pollinating about one-sixth of the flowering plant species worldwide and approximately 400 different agricultural types of plant.” And there’s a reason why the horrifying parent-child convo is called “The birds and the bees” — bees collect nectar and pollen from the flower of a plant, which is the male part of the flower, and carry and deposit that pollen to the female part of the next flower. This is how fertilization is possible and how fruits can grow.