Reader Mr. Wang used the website’s “Contact Me” on 2020-11-16 to inquire: Dr. Lin: I often browse your website, and I feel that every time I read it, it is a lot of benefits. The inner child is nearly 50 years old and has gradually become unstable d...
Reader Mr. Wang used the website’s “Contact Me” on 2020-11-16 to inquire:
Dr. Lin: I often browse your website, and I feel that every time I read it, it is a lot of benefits. The inner child is nearly 50 years old and has gradually become unstable during the monthly cycle. Then she also has symptoms of tide, so she started taking queen bee milk and felt that her symptoms were improved. I went online to check the function of queen bee milk and found that this is really an incompetent food, but there are some side effects that make people worry. I would like to ask if the doctor's claims are really effective and safe? Thank you.
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opens an article published on the website of "New Nutrition" and updated on 2020-5-12. The title is: 10 effects and side effects of queen bee milk (avoid for 7 contraindications and 10 symptoms).
First of all, I hope readers can understand that "New Nutrition" is a website that promotes health care products under the pretext of providing new Nutrition knowledge. It will recommend you to buy health products from iHerb at the end of each article, and also provide discounted volumes from this company. Although it provides a lot of scientific data to prove the efficacy of these health care products in every article, the problem is that most readers simply do not have the ability to judge how credible these scientific data is.
You should know that scientific research, including medicine and nutrition, is progressing step by step: first from the test tube, then to the cell, then to the animal, and then to the human body. However, when we have experienced human trials, we still have the first stage, second stage, and third stage. Unfortunately, most health products are not yet achieved during the stages of animal trials, so they are sold. However, the website "New Nutrition" regards such research as "Effective" scientific evidence.
For example, in this article on Queen Bee Milk, there are 10 subtitles of "Effective": Lowering sterols, promoting health, beneficial blood sugar control, beneficial systemic red-spotted wolves, beneficial dry eye disease, beneficial oral mucositis, improve pre-symptoms, improve skin aging, improve menopause symptoms, and improve cancer fatigue.
Although there are sometimes warnings given below these subtitles, such as "Renewal Long-term Large Trials Still Need to Further Verification", unfortunately, the Proud public will only notice the words "Factory" in the subtitles.
Okay, we can now discuss whether queen bee milk is really impossible. The first paragraph in that article "New Nutrition" is: "Royal Jelly is a white or pale yellow creamy substance secreted by the bee's lower glands and lower glands. It is the only food for queen bees in teenage and adulthood."
Seen without → "The Queen Bee's Only Food". This is a sentence that makes many people fall in love and unable to extricate themselves. Especially women, they think they will become as beautiful as the queen after eating queen's milk. But have you seen another sentence in the article "New Knowledge of Nutrition": "The Queen Bee can produce 2,000-3,000 eggs per day"? So, do you hope you can also produce 2,000-3,000 eggs every day?
I hope readers can understand that every creature has its own unique growth mechanism. Cows can grow up like cows when eating grass, but people will die with their eyes open. Things that are good for bees are good for humans if they don’t see them. What's even more ridiculous is that although the article "New Nutrition" says that most people think that queen bees will become queen bees only after eating queen bees' milk, this is not the case.
top scientific journal Science published A dietary physical alters caste-associated gene expression in honey bees on August 28, 2015. This study found that all female bee larvae eat queen milk in the first three days after hatching. However, on the fourth day, except for the queen bee, other larvae start to eat pollen and honey. The plant chemical component p-cumaric acid (coumaric acid) contained in pollen and honey will inhibit the development of the ovary, thus preventing these larvae from becoming queen bees. In other words, the reason why queen bees can become queen bees is not because they eat queen bees, but because they do not eat pollen and honey.
Regardless of the matter, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is a top-notch cancer research and treatment organization, and it provides very detailed information about queen bee milk. It opened its door to the mountain and said: "Experience and animal studies have shown that queen bee milk can lower blood pressure, citric sterols and inflammation. However, human research is very limited and does not provide sufficient useful evidence."
The European Food Safety Administration (relative to the US FDA) also published opinions on queen bee milk. It says current evidence does not support the saying that eating queen bee milk can bring human health benefits.
As for the reader Mr. Wang, "A private person is nearly 50 years old, and has gradually become unstable since the monthly cycle, taking queen bee milk and sensational symptoms have improved", we will first read a summary article Royal Jelly— A Traditional and Natural Remedy for Postmenopausal Symptoms and Aging-Related Pathologies (Queen Bee milk— a traditional and natural method of diseases related to aging after severity and aging). It says: "The impact of queen bee milk in menopause is an actual topic that has been studied a lot. Unfortunately, there are only a small number of human clinical trials, and most of the studies have been implemented in animal models for ovarian removal."
Let's look at a study published on April 29, 2018. Royal Jelly Supplementation Improves Menopausal Symptoms Such as Backache, Low Back Pain, and Anxiety in Postmenopausal Japanese Women (Queen Bee Latex Replenishment improves menopause symptoms such as back pain, lower back pain and anxiety in women after cessation in Japan). From this title, we can see that this study found that queen bee milk can improve menopause symptoms, but unfortunately, the personnel and fees for this study were all from a Yamada Bee Company, so it lacked credibility.
In short, the praise of queen bee milk is one thing, but actually another. However, since Mr. Wang’s wife, “The Responsive Symptoms Improved”, I believe in feeling.
Original text: The praise and reality of queen bee milk
