
Bee Bread
Bee bread is a naturally formed product with a vast diversity of biologically active substances for those who care about their health. It is the most complete natural product, with no analogs in the world. Bee bread contains about 240 biologically active substances necessary for the normal functioning of the human body. This number can vary depending on the diversity of plants in the bees' pastures and can reach up to 300. This is explained by the fact that bees visit very different flowers over a wide area from early spring to autumn and collect pollen from them, which concentrates a very large amount of biologically active substances. Each plant has its own medicinal effect, which is most pronounced during flowering and concentrates in the flowers.
Bee bread contains all 28 amino acids and vitamins. For example, it has 20 times more carotene than carrots. The vitamins are created by nature, which the body can fully utilize. The composition of amino acids is balanced, and their short polypeptide chains are easily breakable, unlike the long amino acid chains found in animal proteins. Therefore, compared to meat and its by-products, the body is not polluted with waste materials and toxins, and metabolism is not overloaded. Bee bread contains a large amount of unsaturated fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6, in a near-optimal ratio to each other. This is important for the normal functioning of human nerve cells. In nature, these fatty acids in a similar ratio can also be found in sprouted flaxseeds, hemp seeds, and fatty sea fish, which, unfortunately, due to water pollution, also contain undesirable substances, and fish are becoming increasingly scarce.
The bee's body is covered with hairs. When visiting flowers, pollen inevitably sticks to these hairs. Thus, it is transferred from flower to flower, performing plant pollination. Flowers contain more pollen than needed for pollination. Bees have three pairs of legs, with which they clean their bodies, comb their hairs, and thus pack the pollen into pellets, which are attached to their hind legs. Typically, in one outing, bees bring back two such pellets, one on each leg. Each pellet, up to two millimeters in diameter, contains about 2.5 million pollen grains.
Since pollen grains have a cellulose-like outer shell to protect them from the adverse effects of the environment, the enzymes present in the human body cannot sufficiently break them down, so the benefits derived from pollen are limited. Scientific studies show this figure varies between 20 - 40%. It's different with bee bread. By placing and compressing pollen in cells, bees process it with their saliva and cover it with honey. A hermetically sealed environment is created, and good bacteria, similar to those in our gut that feed on fiber, break down the cellulose shell. Fermentation occurs, increasing the amount of lactic acid. As a result of conservation, the human body can access up to 90% of these valuable substances. Vitamin K appears, which is not present in pollen. Preservation with lactic acid is a much better way to store valuable substances compared to sugar or salt, not to mention acetic acid. Neither pollen nor bee bread can cause allergies. They are caused by animal proteins, large molecular amino acid compounds that enter the body with dairy and meat products. Pollen only provokes the body's self-cleansing from undigested animal proteins (see the section "Immunity and Allergy").
It has been observed that when dogs or cats feel unwell, they instinctively chew grass. This is done to collect Bacillus subtilis bacteria, found both on plants and in soil, necessary for gut immunity. Both humans and bees are "warm-blooded" creatures. In the hive, where brood is kept, the temperature is strictly maintained at +34.5°C. This means that the entire development process of a bee from egg to the size we see occurs at this temperature. Bees are the only living being that collects and preserves these bacteria. Living in an urban environment isolated from nature, where household chemicals and food processing destroy both bad and good bacteria, gut symbiotic microflora suffers, resulting in weakened immunity. Therefore, the consumption of bee bread is particularly useful for those living in modern urban conditions.
For prevention, healthy people can use bee bread to strengthen the immune system, improve vision, memory, and concentration skills by taking a teaspoon twice a day, between meals. Moreover, bee bread delays the aging process and is an effective means of body rehabilitation after antibiotic use, as it restores the stomach and intestinal microflora, upon which immunity formation depends. In cosmetics, it is used for face masks. Very good results have been observed in treating infertility in both men and women.
Feeding larvae with royal jelly, whose raw material is bee bread, increases their weight 1500 times in three days. No other product in the animal world provides such an increase.
Long-term consumption of food products grown using intensive technologies and supplemented with preservatives, colorants, and flavor enhancers during the processing process gradually accumulates toxic substances in the human body, destroying the immune system and affecting enzyme activity. Scientific studies show that even with frequent and regular consumption of fruits and vegetables grown using intensive technologies, the amount of minerals and vitamins absorbed by the human body is insufficient. In this situation, bee bread could be one of the most effective means. It is also currently cheaper than synthetically synthesized preparations available in pharmacies. It can also be called a naturally created universal nutritional supplement, as it contains almost everything necessary for life. The second most valuable product for humans after bee bread is spirulina, which contains 18 amino acids and many minerals rare in everyday food products.
Due to the relatively complicated extraction technology, this exclusive product appeared on the Latvian market in a completely purified form in 2001. Unfortunately, the amount of bee bread that can be obtained from one hive is limited. As spring approaches, bees must breed a new generation from it. If the beekeeper does not specifically stimulate the bees to collect more pollen, approximately 1.0 -1.5 kg of bee bread comes from 70kg of honey.
For elderly people, bee bread can be used as an anti-sclerotic agent. It makes blood vessels more elastic, dissolves atherosclerotic plaques, improves brain blood supply, and restores intestinal microflora. Bee bread is the most effective means of increasing hemoglobin, containing all the necessary microelements for blood formation, including iron in organic form.
Especially desirable for women at the beginning and end of pregnancy to increase the immunity of mother and child, as well as to restore blood loss and improve lactation. For men, it is useful for increasing potency, treating prostate adenoma, and infertility. The number of sperm increases 2-3 times, and they become more mobile.

