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ROYAL
JELLY FACT SHEET
Royal Jelly is the substance that turns an
ordinary bee into the Queen Bee. It is made of pollen which is
chewed up and mixed with a chemical secreted from a gland in
the nursing bee's heads. This "milk" or "pollen
mush" is fed to all the larvae for the first two days of
their lives.
The larvae chosen to become a queen continue
to eat only royal jelly. The queen grows one and a half times
larger than the ordinary bee, and is capable of laying up to
two thousand eggs a day. The Queen Bee lives forty times longer
than the bees on a regular diet. There is no difference between
a queen bee and a worker bee in the larval stage. The only factor
that is different between them is that a developing queen bee
continues to eat only royal jelly.
Scientists decided to try feeding the queen
bee's diet to other animals with surprising results. The life
spa of pigs and roosters showed as much as a thirty- percent
increases. Fruit flies fed royal jelly increased in size and
in rate of production. Chickens given royal jelly laid twice
as many eggs, and older chickens began to lay again.
In France, there have been reports of women
fed royal jelly during menopause, showing complete remission
of their symptoms. Some were even able to become mothers again.
France also claimed that their studies showed royal jelly to
have rejuvenating and sexually stimulating effects on both men
and women. Canada has approved royal jelly as a natural dietary
supplement for its athletes. Royal jelly is not a drug, but a
nutritious, quickly assimilated food.
In Germany, Drs.
Chochi, Prosperi, Quadri
and Malossi (in separate studies) used royal jelly as an aid
to badly undernourished and premature babies. The infants fed
royal jelly increased in weight and health. Another doctor, Telatui,
reported that neuro-psychic patients given royal jelly regained
normal weight, a more stable nervous system, and a greater degree
of stamina for physical and mental work.
Chemical analysis of royal jelly found it
rich in protein and the B vitamins (especially panothenic acid).
However, analysis of royal jelly fails to break it down into
all its different components. It cannot be synthesized.
Royal jelly has proven to be a potent bactericide.
It also acts as a catalyst, stimulating intercellular metabolic
activities without significantly modifying normal physiological
activity. Thus, it hastens cell recovery with no side effects.
Royal jelly has been known to speed up healing of wounds and
to reduce the amount of scarring.
The beneficial effects of royal jelly seem
not to depend entirely upon its vitamin content, but upon some
type of enzymatic or catalytic action of an as yet unknown factor;
or perhaps, the known factors working in combination with a co-enzyme
through a process that has not yet been defined.
Since the action of royal jelly seems to
be systemic rather that one which affects a specific biological
function, it has been recommended for a great variety of purposes:
to retard the aging process, for menopause, correction of under-nutrition,
for arthritis, vascular diseases, peptic ulcers, liver ailments,
nervous instability, skin problems, improvement of sexual functions,
general health and well being.
