Uncover The Truth Behind Bee Pollen, And Why You Should Try This Supplement For A Healthier Lifestyle

Why Ignoring and Believing Society In General is Hurting You More than You Know it.

The truth about bee pollen is this:

It is a great healthy supplement, that will improve your health.  Whether that be by increasing your metabolism, reducing fat stores in the body and strengthening your immune system.

Bee Pollen Truth: What is this Natural Supplement?

Bee pollen is the “wet” pollen that is deep within flowering plants.  This pollen is high in protein and other nutrients, and is the main food source for honey bees. Contrary to popular belief, honey is only a food for the bees during the winter months.

This amazing natural supplement has many health benefits, including but not limited:

• Boosts your energy and increases stamina
• Improves sexual functions in men, and increases a woman’s libido
• Stimulates cellular growth and makes your body more energy efficient (live longer!)
• Strengthens your immune system, and prevents you from getting sick, and helps reduce or eliminate allergies
• Helps women with menopause, hot flashes, and night sweats
• Helps in weight loss through its action on the specific part of the brain that controls the dietary habits of a person. Helps you lose weight by giving the brain what it needs in nutrients, so that you feel full and the urge to eat is suppressed.
• High protein content in bee pollen helps  your body repair muscles after work outs.
• Rejuvenates the skin.

There are certain nutrients in bee pollen that are responsible for some of these benefits.  These nutrients are called flavonoids, and they are : myricetin, quercetin, rutin and trans-cinnamic acid.

• Myricetin helps your body reduce the LDL cholesterol (the bad type)
• Quercetin is a natural antihistamine that helps you to fight allergies.
• Rutin has been shown to be beneficial in treating varicose veins and preventing cancer.
• Trans-cinnamic acid jumpstarts your body’s production of its own antibiotics and detoxifies the liver.

There are many antioxidants in bee pollen. Some of the major benefits of taking this supplement daily are:

• It boosts the production of antibodies
• Helps in production of more red blood cells and hemoglobin
• Leads to development of cancer fighting natural killer cells
• Aids in healing of problems related to prostate
• Helps in the overall recovery of the body after any illness
• Prevents allergies
• Helps in reducing cholesterol levels

The Source of Bee Pollen Determines the Quality

There are many bee pollen products on the market.  Just like fruits and vegetables the environment where the bee pollen is harvested determines the quality.  Bee pollen harvested in highly industrialized countries have been known to be contaminated with toxins.  Some people have even gotten sick from using these tainted supplements.  Others have not received any benefits from bee pollen.

If you’re going to try bee pollen supplements, then you want to buy it from a place that has no pollution and that doesn’t use pesticides.

I’ve found a company based in New Zealand called Xtend-Life that makes a very high quality bee pollen.  I’ve gotten many health benefits from it.

I’ve tried other bee pollen products, in tablet form and granules and was not impressed.  I didn’t receive any of the benefits, and I only felt marginally better.  I did some research and found out that some companies in the country (USA) mix high quality bee pollen with dried low quality Chinese bee pollen to produce their supplements.  This decreases their costs, and increases their profit.

But, it’s worse for the consumers, because we are not getting a high quality supplement.

Bee Pollen Capsules Help In Absorption for Full Effectiveness

Bee pollen capsules are probably the best form to take this natural supplement.  Capsules are the same kind of thing that is used in many pharmaceutical antibiotics.  Capsules are used because the light thin shell protects the ingredients until it reaches the stomach, where full absorption is possible.

Not only that, but capsules are air tight, and with the bee pollen from Xtend-Life being freeze-dried at the source, you’re getting a very fresh quality supplement.

Tablets on the other hand are heat-dried and compressed into the shape.  There are some disadvantages to this.  The heat destroys most of the beneficial nutrients in bee pollen.  The only advantage that I can see from tablets, is that they last long, both from a business stand-point and a consumer stand-point.

But your health is the most important right?  That’s why I chose bee pollen capsules from Xtend-Life, and I’ve noticed an increase in energy and vitality.

If bee pollen is so great, why is it not more well known and mainstream ?

Bee Pollen Truth: The Dangers of MSG and How Natural Bee Pollen Can Counteract Its Negative Effects

Have you ever heard of MSG ?

Well, MSG is an ingredient that is heavily used in the food industry.  It’s full name is Monosodium Glutamate and it is a salt amino acid.

MSG is used in many food products because it tricks your tongue into thinking that a certain food is high in protein, when it actually isn’t.  It changes your perception of taste, and makes your body start processes that are meant for nutritious food.

For example, MSG stimulates the pancreas and makes your body produce more insulin.  And the whole point of insulin is to help the body digest carbohydrates, but when your body doesn’t have any actual carbohydrates, your blood sugar levels drop.  Afterwards, you feel hungry again.

Pretty beneficial to food companies who want to sell you more stuff right? For your health? Not so much.

When your body has an excess amount of MSG, it has to get rid of it somehow.  Your body gets rid of excess MSG in a complicated process that changes it into neurotransmitter called GABA.

This GABA neurotransmitter can become addictive, because it gives you a calming effect.  Sometimes you might feel tired after eating a large meal, it may be the work of the neurotransmitter.

One of the major reasons why MSG is added into many food products is the cost.  Because they can add less actual food into a product, the food companies are reducing their production costs and increasing profits. This just means, that as a consumer you’re eating food that is not nutritious.

It has been known by scientists and many people that it causes obesity, but it took the mainstream media 40 years to finally report that MSG is linked to obesity.

MSG is actually really scary when you actually know what it does to your body.

Here is an excerpt I received from http://www.msgtruth.org:

1. MSG is eaten.
2. Cells in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus that produce dopamine and regulate appetite are destroyed.
3. Hypothalamus becomes leptin-resistant
4. Glutamate activates AMPK, which slows metabolism AND desire for physical activity (“lazy mice”).
5. The fat cells release leptin to stop AMPK, but the hypothalamus ignores the signal.
6. Appetite stays high, activity is depressed.  Calorie intake goes up, calories expended by metabolism go down, calories expended in activity go down.
7. MSG although it is an amino acid, signals the pancreas to release insulin
8. Insulin drops our blood sugar – causing increased hunger at the same time it packs away excess calories as fat
9. Obesity

A study was done by Dr. John Olney that showed MSG damaged cells of the hypothalamus in the brain and made mice morbidly obese. The hypothalamus is the part of the brain that regulates appetite, and how hungry you feel.

The MSG was given to the mice, and because of this MSG, activated a chemical called AMPK.  AMPK is a stress signal that tells the brain that energy in your body is being used to quickly and it actually reduces metabolism.  A side-effect is that it makes you feel lazy.

On the other hand bee pollen shows a host of healthy benefits.  Research studies have shown that mice who have been fed bee pollen showed little sign of distress and actually improved their blood.

Bee pollen has been shown to stimulate hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying red blood cells).  This supplement also has resulted in more white blood cells (strengthening your immune system). Bee pollen is rich with a host of proteins, amino acids, vitamins, including B-Complex, and folic acid.

Instead of tricking your brain and body into thinking it has more nutrients, bee pollen actually has what your body needs and craves for.  This natural supplement also has many antibiotic properties as well.  In a study done on athletic swimmers, it showed that the group who took bee pollen was sick less often and therefore was able to practice swimming more.

Bee pollen is a natural energy booster.  The rich vitamins, proteins, and minerals in pollen give the body it’s nutrients.  When your body has the nutrients it needs, it feels more energized and more alive.  Pollen also contains essential amino acids that are required by many cellular processes in the body.

Drinks like coffee and red bull on the other hand only trick your body into thinking it has more energy when it actually doesn’t, very similar to how MSG tricks your body into thinking that you are eating nutritious food, when in reality you’re not.  

Bee Pollen Truth: Beware Of Misleading Information From Pharmaceutical Companies And The FDA

Gone are the days of natural food bought in small farms.  Most of the food products today are controlled by mega-corporations with the sole purpose of making a profit.  The food you eat is not as nutritious as you might think it is.  That’s the reason why bee pollen is slowly becoming more and more popular because of its natural health benefits.

The sad and ugly truth is that most food and pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to be healthy. I highly recommend all my readers to watch or at least take a look at the movie documentary “Food Inc.”, where it exposes the truth behind most of our food products.

One thing I learned is that the FDA doesn’t seem to put the consumer’s benefit first, but more of the large corporations.

Of course the whole pharmaceutical and food companies are against any natural product because they want you to buy from them.  Currently, the FDA is being pressured into setting new guidelines for (New Dietary Ingredients).

Basically, what FDA is trying to do is make almost all ingredients in natural supplements illegal because they have to be approved first.  They are proposing that each natural ingredient in each product has to be approved by the FDA.

For example, if you have a product that has grape extract in a grape dietary drink, then the grape extract has to be “approved” for that grape dietary drink.  Now, if  you have another product , lets say, grape cookie, that has grape extract, then it also needs to get approved.

But…synthetic ingredients are exempt from this approval process.  Some people are saying that the FDA wants the whole dietary supplement industry to go bankrupt.  I would believe that, because most of the synthetic ingredients are produced by pharmaceutical companies.

Overall, taking bee pollen supplements can only help your health and not deteriorate it like MSG or caffeine. The fact it is a natural product will give you the energy and vitality you need in life.

Look, you’ve probably been unconsciously and unknowingly eating MSG most of your life, it is now that you need to make a conscious decision to improve your health, try bee pollen today !

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