If you think honey is your health’s ally, today’s article might come as a shock to you.
Do you know those little plastic honey bear recipients on supermarket shelves?
They might contain nothing but high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors, industrial-grade glucose, and other horrifying compounds that could be damaging your internal organs.
I had to learn that the hard way…
Why Picking the Right Honey Is Important for Your Health
In 2018 I was in constant pain.
I barely ate. I used to stay up all night long searching for an answer, but to no avail.
I went to the doctor’s office and he told me I was fine, that it was some sort of ghost-pain… All I got was a recommendation to go on Tylenol.
But one day, as I was reading Dr. Nicole Apelian’s Holistic Guide to Wellness, I came across this paragraph:
That’s when everything clicked. Could the inflammation I had be caused by the honey I was eating?
Was I using the wrong kind of honey?
And I had it in my tea, my coffee…. I was buying it from a store that’s part of the the largest American chain of supermarkets, so I had to look it up, even though the label mentioned honey as the only ingredient.
I found that the brand I was using was shown to have elevated levels of the toxic compound Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) — which is associated with cancer.
This toxin is generally absent in fresh honey, but it forms through heating, conditioning and storage. So this honey that I’ve been taking for years now was not only devoid of all its benefits, but it was also loaded with the HMF compound.
That set off my alarm bells. I immediately threw out all the honey I had already bought.
Once I had stopped using it, the pain subsequently went away.
But I was among the lucky ones – often, consuming fake honey could lead to worse things…
How to Tell if Are You Using Fake Honey
To boost profits, some producers may add various substances to highly processed honey to improve its appearance, taste, or shelf-life.
Improperly processed or low-quality commercial honey may also contain contaminants like pesticides or heavy metals, which can lead to neurological issues, kidney damage, and other serious diseases.
Consuming fake honey contributes to insulin resistance over time, making it challenging for individuals to successfully regulate blood sugar levels and contributing to an increased risk of cardiovascular issues.
This is why the best type of honey that you should always use is raw honey.
Always make sure you purchase from trusted producers. You can visit farmers’ markets, talk to local beekeepers, and you can choose to support them if you have the means to do so. Local beekeepers prioritize the wellbeing of their bees, and thus their bees produce high-quality honey.
Another great choice is Manuka Honey, but that is more on the expensive side.
To make sure you’re not using fake or adulterated honey, you can always do the water dissolution test. If you add honey to a glass of water and it just sits at the bottom of your glass, your honey is safe for use. If the honey starts dissolving quickly, you should throw it away.
But even after you’ve made sure the honey you take is the real kind, it’s still missing something.
To maximize its healing potential, you should start combining it with other ingredients. I would like to share just 5 of my favorite herbs and spices I now add to my honey.
The Root That Can Help Every Organ in Your Body
During the colder months, it’s a good idea to consider including ginger in your diet. Winter tends to bring an increased risk of colds and the flu, so taking ginger can help boost your immune system.
Among the many health benefits of ginger are also its digestive aid, anti-inflammatory effects, and respiratory health support.
The Ancient Root That Fights Infections for You (It’s Not What You Expect)
The use of Turmeric dates back 3000 years ago, but people still don’t know how to properly use it.
It aids in reducing internal inflammation and increasing the antioxidant capacity of your body, thus helping to inhibit cancer cells.
However, curcumin has low bioavailability, which means the body absorbs and utilizes it poorly. The next ingredient on this list is essential if you want to take advantage of all the health benefits that turmeric has.
You Should Never Use Turmeric Without This
Turmeric is almost useless without Black Pepper.
This combination of piperine and curcumin works synergistically to make turmeric more effective for you.
Black pepper is rich in vitamin B6, which is essential for your mental health during these months. It boosts the production of serotonin and dopamine naturally, fighting the ”winter blues”.
Increasing Black Pepper consumption can also detox your body. As this season often brings an increase in sugary and starchy comfort foods, Black Pepper can contribute to better digestion, and enhanced nutrient absorption.
Why Should Seniors Consume Cinnamon?
Cinnamon has antimicrobial properties and is rich in antioxidants. These properties can support your immune system, helping to defend your body against the cold and flu.
Cinnamaldehyde, the active compound in cinnamon, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. So adding a dash of cinnamon to your morning coffee or tea can help preserve brain function and slow the cognitive impairment process associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Anti-Inflammatory Spiced Honey
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw honey
- 2 tsp. of fresh ginger
- 2 tsp. of turmeric powder
- A pinch of black pepper
- 2 tsp. of ground cinnamon
Step 1: Peel off the ginger, cut it in small pieces and set aside.
Step 3: In a small bowl, mix the ground turmeric and ground black pepper.
Step 4: Gradually add honey, stirring continuously, until you achieve a smooth paste-like consistency.
Step 5: After you have activated the Turmeric, mix all the other ingredients (the cinnamon and the ginger) with the turmeric paste in a small bowl.
Step 6: After that, mix in the rest of the honey.
Store it in a cool, dark place for increased shelf-life. I usually pour it in a jar and keep it in my pantry. Take one teaspoon of it every morning.
This pairing of ingredients will create the perfect immunity blanket for your body.
Since I mentioned her earlier, this information mostly comes from Nicole Apelian’s newest book, The Holistic Guide to Wellness.
She has created an entire protocol filled with a lot of tips and tricks that help you strengthen your inner doctor.
Some of these would be:
- The Common Weed That Helps Every Part of Your Body at Once
- Why You Should Boil Onion Peels
- The Juice That Heals From Inside Out
- How to Eat Pumpkin Seeds to Kill Intestinal Parasites and Worms in 3 Days
- What Happens When You Pour Honey Over Garlic
…and so many others!
There are 45 other Protocols inside for the following ailments:
Read about the ones that interest you the most in the Holistic Guide to Wellness: Herbal Protocols for Common Ailments.
This article was first published on The Lost Herbs.
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I use local honey from beekeepers in my area, have no problems. Manuka honey is great but comes in several grades of strength, each more expensive.
Is there a similar honey of more local or regional?
A research paper on honey produced in Wales (UK) by natural beekeeping methods (as opposed to “traditional” conservative methods which are more akin to factory farming for bees – look it up) found it was just as good as expensive Manuka honey imported from NZ on all measured parameters. If the bees are looked after properly, and not exploited as most are, their honey will be as nature intended. But you have to seek it out, go to the source, ask beekeepers how they keep their bees, and educate yourself on what the best response to your questions should be.
Yes local honey is better than commercially heated honey.
Off topic; The other side of life.
It is so funny that the moral high ground when it comes to progressive liberal bleeding hearts bang the drums of useful idiocy for misdirected history written by the elite moralist.
Back in Africa the kingdoms turned their own kind into the slave trade to profit for. The myth that only the white Europeans owned slaves is fabricated by those who what to get repatriations. Many whites did not own slaves contrary to what Marxist envisioned of their revisionist history.
In the so called American slave trade, other than white European owned slaves. There are blacks who owned white and black slaves throughout the world. The famous African Somali pirates captured ship sailors held them for ransom, slave trade even killed them. That is when the Leather Neck Marine corp came into existence as a fighting force.
There were cast lifestyles world over as those born in 1800 India, there is no chance to become wealthy.
The Native American tribes had peaceful and warrior national, killing, raping and turning some captives into slaves.
Why do the American black’s continue to vote for Demoncrats when their long gone African ancestors worked the plantation cotton fields, scared by the Demoncrats KKK?
The middle east, past, present and in today’s world still does human sex trafficking and slave workers. No different than what goes on in south America.
Asia no different, Russia is more brutal that America. China uses slave workers to manufacture certain products. The higher tech industry does have some slave workers.
Some countries use money, torture among the ways to control the un-waken Sheeple.
America taxpayers are the new slaves of taxes being spent overseas. At a time when America is being bleed dry of money, resources, military weapons then making America safe and secure first.
Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal disaster left billions of $USD$ in the hands of Islamist terrorist. These could have supplied Taiwan, Israel, maybe Ukraine the weapons needed. We can no longer tax and spent our way out of $40 Trillions in debt and politicians leave office as millionaires or billionaires.
America has no real Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or the Bill of Rights in the eyes of the Deep State making it into Obama’s now Biden’s continuation of being a divider in chief of the USA. The elected officials state and federal no longer represent the American voters as the founding fathers envisioned.
Just remember every country, culture in history has had many conflicts, religion, politics to name a couple of themes that have caused many wars by the elites and the unwashed masses have to stop the wars by blood and guts. That most people would never have started but gone on to live life being happy taking care of their families in peace.
History, reading, writing and arithmetic are becoming lost art in the American teacher’s union public schools.
The untaught part also is the emancipation only freed the CSA slaves which was no goid because the CSA was an independent country at that time. There were five slave states Lincoln did not emancipate in the Union.
Well you were doing pretty good there until you mention weapons for Isreahell and Joo-Kraine! You need to do some reasearch, Isreahell has started every war we.ve had, Israel created hamas, isis, Israel was created in 1948 by Rothschild Freemasons! You might want to ask some of the USS-LIBERTY survivors and the WTC survivors, You may even need to read the Talmud, It says that the Rabbi can go out of his area/city and have sex w/babies & return home and all is well, [ WELL-BULL-SHEET] Oh and BTW- ISIS stands for Israeli secret intell. service, And also if you don’t use Ceylon Cinnamon you are doing your body more harm than good!!! Oh yeah before i forget/leave why would you want to help Joo-Kraine the #1 child trafficking money laundering, Bio-lab country in the world & JSUK Putin has destroyed more labs and saved more children from that lil bas-turd Zelenski who has been bombing & killing Russia speaking Ukrainians since 2014!!!
WOW!! Those are some really amazing drugs you must be using. You seldom see such delusional bigotry in people who don’t reside in a padded room.
Look up Anthony Johnson, the first slave owner in what was to become the USA. He was a black man.
Robert, it’s an article about raw honey and a recipe for a immune booster mix. Stay on topic would ya?
Have found commercial brand honeys that been filtered and heated crystallize at a faster rate then local processed honey.
Local honey so have honey sitting in a glass jar in the kitchen room temperature. Been six years since an the flow is like the day I purchased it, no crystallization.
Also if making herbal honey, it’s been said honey will degrade in a year of strength being used. Then crystallize like the commercially processed honey.
Are there beekeepers that can help us about these issues of honey?
Thank you.
JSUK, you should be using Ceylon Cinnamon because any other is not real Cinnamon and it will damage you kidney’s ESP if you use a lot of it, That shhhhstuff you get at the gro-store is not Cinnamon, I called the co’s and asked,,, Ceylon only comes from i think it was three country’s!!!
Cinnamomum verum (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, also called true cinnamon tree or Ceylon cinnamon tree)
Sri Lanka cinnamon is the real cinnamon and is healthiest for you.
Oh, I almost forgot Zelenski’s wife is running a child trafficking Bussiness, And Putin has destroyed last count i had was 46 bio-labs, One in particular was on snake island was making air-borne rabbi’s to spray on you DUMB ARSE’S
Did you ever had to deal with Russians or Soviets? If not, then move to North Korea to understand who Russians really are. Don’t be a tool for neo bolsheviks!
Victor and bi-victor,
Your the pot smoking liberals that believe America sucks and bring in all the illegals to become the next Democrat voters. Your liberalism stinks on ice as you both should be at room temperature
Good bye trolls.
You’re, not your, learn your own language, before claiming facade patriotism. And my point remains, Russians are the bad guy in the Ukrainian war, you suporting them makes you the troll. If America sucks is because you think that, I don’t
moron talk
Did you know:
One bee will make one teaspoon of homey in it life time.
Bee’s can’t fly in the dark.
Bee’s are all female.
Bee’s will remember where every flower is, that it goes to in its life.
stay sharp
A most important fact that wasn’t mentioned: DO NOT HEAT HONEY OR ADD IT TO HOT FOODS/DRINKS!
Heating honey over the temperature of your blood (between 98 and 100 degrees) will destroy all of the beneficial enzymes that make honey healthy. Then all you have is an expensive sugar product.
More on Honey – those little packets you get at restaurants like KFC are Honey SAUCE and not real honey.
Read the packets before use.
Oh and even real honey can crystallize.
Thank you for the great information. Keep sending me these links!!
Thank you again for the email links Claude!!
Any product labeled HONEY and sold in the USA must be HONEY and nothing else. Check the FDA website for a pdf on labeling honey.
I’ve been a beekeeper since the 1960’s and this kind of article does more damage to real honey producers than even the government’s latest lame brained idea.
If your honey comes in a cute little bear, it’s because the beekeeper ordered bear containers from the supply house because they sell better than plain jars.
Honey is sometimes heated to make it flow easier into the containers. It don’t take much heat to make it flow quicker.
Blended honey is pure honey from different yards, producers or flower types.
Sorry for the rant but this really upsets me.
Not quite all honey bees are female. Drones are male and come from unfertilized eggs. Their only use is to fertilize the queen. All the worker bees including the queen are female. A mated queen can lay fertilized eggs (which become workers or possibly queens) and unfertilized eggs which become drones.
Truth : anything can be mislabled, misidentified and sold as something they are not
FDA does not really do its job , pay to play , paid off by the large corps
unless Labled NON GMO , Organic , single sourced and then they can put a percentage and it will still fly
Do the research , dont let the liars networkes decieve you and make you feel Good with lots of lies and deception
like honey , if not pure , not real , if diluted , then not real
organic from the farm in your community , where you know the bee s
I have gotten the lost book of herbal remedies. I need to know if the seeds are of some of the
Sickness. Please I need to have a few seeds just that is my but the book doesn’t say what to look for. And need we are trying to get the seeds and we are moving in about three weeks. Trying to find that’s seeds, please . I am willing to get into bug out chapters.