WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.660 in a world brimming with complexity few creatures 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:12.839 embody harmony like the honeybee with tireless 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:17.699 precision she dances from bloom to bloom each 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:22.420 motion guided by millennia upon millennia of 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:28.800 instinct each act in service to the whole and 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.560 then There are the beekeepers, watchful stewards 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:40.500 of this ancient symbiosis. Part agriscientist, 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.460 part poet, they move along their hives with the 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:50.560 efficiency of mow, levy and curly, tending to 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.219 the bees' needs as best they can comprehend, 00:00:54.859 --> 00:00:59.670 and with the infrequency of a waterfall in the 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:05.590 Sahara, sometimes running off flapping and flailing 00:01:05.590 --> 00:01:12.129 like a penguin on a hot sidewalk. This is their 00:01:12.129 --> 00:01:28.299 journey. Today, we're going back to Romania for 00:01:28.299 --> 00:01:31.780 the final installment in our series about everything 00:01:31.780 --> 00:01:34.879 apotherapy with our guest, the world's leading 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.680 authority on apotherapy, Dr. Stefan Stangitu, 00:01:39.060 --> 00:01:41.859 MD. In parts one and two, we learned all about 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:45.319 propolis, proper honey extraction for medical 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.719 uses, selling honey as a health product. honey 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.019 for burns, bee venom, and a ton more. And if 00:01:52.019 --> 00:01:54.000 you haven't heard them yet, they're episodes 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.980 the two right before this, number 250 and 251. 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.400 You might want to take a listen. Today we're 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.560 taking a deep dive into how to use bee products 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:07.579 for allergies, specifically seasonal allergies 00:02:07.579 --> 00:02:11.659 or hay fever. That means desensitization techniques 00:02:11.659 --> 00:02:15.180 through honey, pollen, propolis, and even bee 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:18.280 hive air therapy. And if you haven't yet, subscribe 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:21.379 to the show, please hit that button. Now we really 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:29.280 appreciate it. Let's talk about bee pollen and 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.039 allergies such as seasonal allergies. Is there 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:36.180 any benefit there? Yes. Okay. So first of all, 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:39.639 those pollen allergies, if you look to the detailed 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:44.360 studies, they are caused mostly by those flying 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:48.120 pollens in the air. They are those very light 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.159 pollens. They are called anemophilus pollen, 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:55.199 like they are pollen particles which have inside 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.199 a lot of air. So they are very, very light, like 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:02.699 pine pollen, for example. So these are causing 00:03:02.699 --> 00:03:06.159 most of the pollen allergies. Our bee pollen... 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.199 coming from the flowers where it's a lot of nectar, 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:12.800 that bipolar is heavier. And usually this pollen 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.060 doesn't come into the nose like the anemophilus 00:03:16.060 --> 00:03:19.699 pollen. But now there are two big methods to 00:03:19.699 --> 00:03:22.520 fight this pollen allergies and very, very successful. 00:03:23.259 --> 00:03:26.659 One old method is to use honey from the same 00:03:26.659 --> 00:03:31.099 area where the patient lives. And because in 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:33.680 the same area, there are this anemophilus pollen 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.810 flying. And the bees, when they fly from flower 00:03:37.810 --> 00:03:41.789 to flower, know their body is very furry, a lot 00:03:41.789 --> 00:03:45.610 of hair. And in the flight, the bees are kind 00:03:45.610 --> 00:03:49.110 of contaminated by this special light pollen, 00:03:49.449 --> 00:03:51.990 anemophilus pollen, in their body. And when they 00:03:51.990 --> 00:03:55.430 come to the next flower, they collect the pollen 00:03:55.430 --> 00:03:57.610 from that flower, but they do something like 00:03:57.610 --> 00:04:01.729 this, they comb their body. And then they will 00:04:01.729 --> 00:04:05.150 get that anemophilus pollen too, which is like 00:04:05.150 --> 00:04:08.889 of contaminating the floral pollen but when you 00:04:08.889 --> 00:04:11.810 take that small amount of anemophilus pollen 00:04:11.810 --> 00:04:14.750 which is mixed more or less in the normal flower 00:04:14.750 --> 00:04:19.209 pollen and you eat this pollen or B products 00:04:19.209 --> 00:04:21.990 which contains this kind of pollen then you create 00:04:21.990 --> 00:04:25.490 what is called the desensitization. It's like 00:04:25.490 --> 00:04:28.949 vaccination because you give that allergen not 00:04:28.949 --> 00:04:32.879 through the nose Here is mostly allergic reaction, 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:36.819 strong reaction. But when you eat that allergen 00:04:36.819 --> 00:04:40.500 in the stomach, the stomach acidity and the enzymes 00:04:40.500 --> 00:04:43.720 from the stomach will break down this allergen. 00:04:43.939 --> 00:04:47.720 And also in the large intestine, the flora will 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.600 open this pollen. And then the immune system 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.779 can analyze better this allergenic substances 00:04:53.779 --> 00:04:56.850 and can have a better reaction. This is the old 00:04:56.850 --> 00:04:59.910 system, like honey from the same area where the 00:04:59.910 --> 00:05:03.110 patient lives, yeah? And you start usually like 00:05:03.110 --> 00:05:05.709 ideally one to three months before the allergy 00:05:05.709 --> 00:05:08.829 season starts or before, you know, there are 00:05:08.829 --> 00:05:11.290 people allergic to certain plants, one to months 00:05:11.290 --> 00:05:13.949 before you try to get the honey from last year 00:05:13.949 --> 00:05:16.689 from the same area. And the second method which 00:05:16.689 --> 00:05:20.110 is unbelievable good, and this is the extraordinary 00:05:20.110 --> 00:05:23.569 for the beekeepers who are seeing us, is the 00:05:23.569 --> 00:05:28.620 beehive air. beehive air therapy. Now in Europe 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:31.600 there are hundreds of beekeepers offering this 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.259 beehive air therapy. It's a form of aroma therapy 00:05:35.259 --> 00:05:39.399 of aerosols from the beehive and it's an excellent 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.339 opportunity and very easy opportunity for a beekeeper 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:46.680 to go into this apitherapy real without needing 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.379 complicated approvals or you know complicated 00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:52.620 corporations and so on and so on. If they say 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:56.589 that they have a bee house where they can offer 00:05:56.589 --> 00:06:00.069 this beehive air, like they offer honey, beeswax, 00:06:00.290 --> 00:06:02.490 propolis, and so on. They offer the beehive air. 00:06:02.990 --> 00:06:07.009 And in this beehive air, there are very, very 00:06:07.009 --> 00:06:10.149 thin amounts of this anemophilus pollen. But 00:06:10.149 --> 00:06:14.470 the beauty is that the beekeepers, they use special 00:06:14.470 --> 00:06:17.709 devices which are put on top of the beehive. 00:06:17.889 --> 00:06:20.170 Inside, of course, when they take out the lid, 00:06:20.209 --> 00:06:22.930 there's special access. And they have a filter. 00:06:23.209 --> 00:06:27.629 They have a pollen filter. So when the anemophilus 00:06:27.629 --> 00:06:30.050 pollen comes through the entrance in the beehive 00:06:30.050 --> 00:06:34.329 and then goes to this absorption device, because 00:06:34.329 --> 00:06:38.089 of the pollen filter, the filtration of the pollen 00:06:38.089 --> 00:06:43.889 is made almost 100%, but not 100%. Some of the 00:06:43.889 --> 00:06:47.509 allergenic pollen will go extremely small amount 00:06:47.509 --> 00:06:51.860 to the air. So the patient receives into the 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:54.480 nose and the lungs like homeopathic doses of 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.220 that allergenic. It's exactly like in vaccination, 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.040 exactly like in desensitization for B. venom 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.819 allergy, taking an allergen in extremely small 00:07:02.819 --> 00:07:06.180 amount. does allow the immune system to calm 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:09.180 down, to understand better what is this allergenic 00:07:09.180 --> 00:07:12.399 substance or product and so on, and then the 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.120 allergic reaction diminishes. We know this from 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.399 the experience. In Germany, in Passau, I organized, 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.240 as I said, about 20 international conferences. 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.079 And in 2007, thanks to some other beekeeper, 00:07:25.579 --> 00:07:28.920 he told us to invite to Passau, to our place 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.079 where we gave the congresses, a beekeeper from 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:37.509 Austria. This beekeeper, Harry Huitner, was offering 00:07:37.509 --> 00:07:40.610 already for many years this behavior therapy. 00:07:41.329 --> 00:07:44.009 And then it was so fascinating how he explained. 00:07:44.129 --> 00:07:47.480 We went to his place with two buses. and we saw 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.680 at his place how he was doing. And you can imagine 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.100 after that all years after this in Germany, every 00:07:55.100 --> 00:07:57.540 year, every Congress, some beekeeper would come 00:07:57.540 --> 00:07:59.980 and say, yes, I use the same system and I've 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:02.480 got this and these results. So every, every year 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.079 like this, like since 2007. And now we have a 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.860 lot of experimental, but also clinical data that 00:08:09.860 --> 00:08:12.620 beehive arrow is working. And the number one 00:08:12.620 --> 00:08:15.120 disease which you can treat is allergic rhinitis, 00:08:15.420 --> 00:08:18.699 hay fever. That's from the beehive air or from 00:08:18.699 --> 00:08:22.379 the pollen or kind of either or Okay, so there 00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:25.600 are several factors here. First of all is that 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.480 anemophilus pollen which is in much lower amount 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.949 but then You are right, there are other components 00:08:31.949 --> 00:08:35.309 from the beehive, beehive air, which acts against 00:08:35.309 --> 00:08:38.570 the inflammation. For example, the French guys, 00:08:38.570 --> 00:08:41.350 they found out that in the larvae, they communicate 00:08:41.350 --> 00:08:44.509 with the adults and so on with special pheromones. 00:08:44.929 --> 00:08:48.049 And one of these pheromones is called methylpalmitate. 00:08:48.549 --> 00:08:50.990 And the methylpalmitate, when it comes into the 00:08:50.990 --> 00:08:54.269 lungs, is anti -inflammatory and antispastic. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.299 Then we have of course in the behavior all kind 00:08:58.299 --> 00:09:01.980 of volatile substances. coming mainly from propolis 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:05.139 and from beeswax. And it was done a study in 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:07.799 Dresden in Germany by a professor, Professor 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.120 Speer, Technical University in Dresden. They 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.179 analyzed the behavior, the components, the substance, 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.379 the behavior. They found over 50 such volatiles. 00:09:17.779 --> 00:09:20.659 Now the reality is like more than 200 such volatile 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:23.340 components are there depending on the area. But 00:09:23.340 --> 00:09:26.340 they were curious to see from where are coming 00:09:26.340 --> 00:09:29.490 these volatile substances. It may seem early, 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:32.350 but right now is a great time to order your live 00:09:32.350 --> 00:09:37.029 bees for 2026 because they do sell out and because 00:09:37.029 --> 00:09:40.289 Man Lake is offering a discount for Be Love Podcast 00:09:40.289 --> 00:09:43.360 listeners. Wait, what? I know, you're saying 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.720 live bees, they never go on sale. Well, they 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.139 are now. Click on over to Man Lake, order your 00:09:50.139 --> 00:09:53.940 bees any variety, nukes or packages, and anything 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:57.139 in the beginner essentials category. 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So 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.679 get your orders in early and save. at the beginning 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.139 they thought that they are coming mainly from 00:10:13.139 --> 00:10:16.059 honey but now the surprise was that they are 00:10:16.059 --> 00:10:18.320 coming mainly from properties and from beeswax 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.259 and this is a beautiful information because a 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:25.360 beekeeper which has a bee house for beehive there 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:30.970 we is able to do like aromatherapy, apiaromatherapy, 00:10:30.990 --> 00:10:33.590 not only in the summer, like spring, summer, 00:10:33.830 --> 00:10:36.850 autumn, but also in the winter, because they 00:10:36.850 --> 00:10:40.269 can buy special devices which propolizes the 00:10:40.269 --> 00:10:43.490 air in that room with the, you know, these special 00:10:43.490 --> 00:10:45.490 devices, the electrical devices which are heating 00:10:45.490 --> 00:10:48.470 the properties or the beeswax and releasing the 00:10:48.470 --> 00:10:50.789 volatiles in the room. I can talk about those 00:10:50.789 --> 00:10:53.769 for just a second. Here in the United States, 00:10:54.210 --> 00:10:57.450 there's very little of anything going on with 00:10:57.450 --> 00:11:00.730 this beehive air. When I was at Epimondia recently, 00:11:01.490 --> 00:11:04.590 there were some companies there, a couple of 00:11:04.590 --> 00:11:08.070 different things. One had like a mask that you 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:13.470 wear with a tube. that goes to the hive and you're 00:11:13.470 --> 00:11:15.610 breathing this air straight out of the hive. 00:11:16.190 --> 00:11:19.830 Another was a couple of companies that have a 00:11:19.830 --> 00:11:23.570 diffuser type device like you say to heat up 00:11:23.570 --> 00:11:26.529 propolis and then it puts it out into the air 00:11:26.529 --> 00:11:30.049 like someone may do with oils and that kind of 00:11:30.049 --> 00:11:33.149 thing. There are ways to do that. I think that's 00:11:33.149 --> 00:11:35.429 something that's going to be fun for a lot of 00:11:35.429 --> 00:11:38.529 us to learn more about. I've seen online a couple 00:11:38.529 --> 00:11:42.669 of these bee houses that you can actually go 00:11:42.669 --> 00:11:46.470 in and like lay down or just sit in there for 00:11:46.470 --> 00:11:49.110 a half an hour and you're feeling the vibration 00:11:49.110 --> 00:11:51.009 of the bees and you're breathing the air from 00:11:51.009 --> 00:11:54.190 the bees and it sounds like wow and so healthy 00:11:54.190 --> 00:11:56.809 and I've not had a chance to try that yet. If 00:11:56.809 --> 00:11:58.769 somebody wants to build one here for me I'd love 00:11:58.769 --> 00:12:03.799 that. But we'll move on from that. I think I've 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:06.460 monopolized way too much of your time already 00:12:06.460 --> 00:12:10.279 Dr. Stefan. I appreciate it so very much. I want 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.399 to hit a couple of other things before I let 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.159 you go and then we'll get you back some other 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.029 time to talk about more. One is Your website 00:12:19.029 --> 00:12:22.769 is apitherapy .com and people can go there and 00:12:22.769 --> 00:12:26.309 find all kinds of resources. You have some of 00:12:26.309 --> 00:12:28.950 your talks on there. You have courses on there. 00:12:29.350 --> 00:12:31.389 There are courses that can be done online. There 00:12:31.389 --> 00:12:34.610 are courses that can be done in person at your 00:12:34.610 --> 00:12:37.110 place in Romania, which I think would be awesome 00:12:37.110 --> 00:12:40.429 to go do. And so I recommend that people go look 00:12:40.429 --> 00:12:43.529 at some of those kinds of things. Just a couple 00:12:43.529 --> 00:12:46.730 more questions before I let you go. One is, and 00:12:46.730 --> 00:12:48.769 I think this is important because we're talking 00:12:48.769 --> 00:12:54.250 safety here also, your average beekeeper. Which 00:12:54.250 --> 00:12:56.929 of these, all these things that we've discussed, 00:12:57.690 --> 00:13:01.789 which are safe to do yourself and which do you 00:13:01.789 --> 00:13:05.230 need a medical professional for and how do you 00:13:05.230 --> 00:13:07.250 find that medical professional if you choose 00:13:07.250 --> 00:13:11.379 to do that? Okay, so the first thing to do is 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:15.120 like every beekeeper which has any kind of disease, 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.500 first step is to go to his own medical doctor, 00:13:18.659 --> 00:13:22.460 yeah, or to the local naturopathic doctor in 00:13:22.460 --> 00:13:26.139 North America. Why? Because the symptoms, even 00:13:26.139 --> 00:13:29.679 simple symptoms like coughing, for example, may 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:33.500 hide severe disease inside, like possible like 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:36.909 a cancer, yeah. So the first step is to make 00:13:36.909 --> 00:13:40.690 this physical exam, to make the laboratory analysis, 00:13:41.110 --> 00:13:43.590 and to check with maybe two or three doctors. 00:13:44.110 --> 00:13:47.850 And then... If it's nothing serious, it's like 00:13:47.850 --> 00:13:49.889 an inflammation, like a disease which is at the 00:13:49.889 --> 00:13:52.929 beginning. It's not very complicated. They can 00:13:52.929 --> 00:13:56.250 easily use all the B products. Ideally, it's 00:13:56.250 --> 00:13:59.830 to use fresh B products. They follow that principle 00:13:59.830 --> 00:14:02.309 with the dose, like start with small dose and 00:14:02.309 --> 00:14:04.490 increase gradually, like I showed that graphic. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.299 And then they can also contact me, some of them, 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.220 when they have some complicated things they cannot 00:14:11.220 --> 00:14:14.659 solve, and I can give them by email more specific 00:14:14.659 --> 00:14:18.840 advices. But the idea is, one idea also to give 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:23.200 shortly, is if the beekeeper is using in the 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.480 treatment more bee products, he or she will have 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.480 more effects than only one product. So one good 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.679 advice I'm giving to everybody is to put in honey, 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.740 some propolis tincture, some pollen, some royal 00:14:37.740 --> 00:14:41.000 jelly, some drone larvae, apple Arnil. So when 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.940 you combine all these things together and you 00:14:43.940 --> 00:14:46.600 take gradually, the chance of healing is much 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.830 faster. But anyway, it's very, very important. 00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:52.029 They start with these bee products, but they 00:14:52.029 --> 00:14:54.750 need to go gradually, regularly, like once a 00:14:54.750 --> 00:14:57.389 week, every two weeks to their own medical doctor 00:14:57.389 --> 00:15:00.990 locally to check the evolution, just to avoid 00:15:00.990 --> 00:15:04.309 complicated situations. You've been a beekeeper 00:15:04.309 --> 00:15:08.029 for over 25 years, as well as doing all of this 00:15:08.029 --> 00:15:10.809 with your medical profession. everybody that 00:15:10.809 --> 00:15:13.350 comes on the show, I give them an opportunity 00:15:13.350 --> 00:15:16.429 to talk about some kind of wild, crazy, funny, 00:15:16.610 --> 00:15:19.590 embarrassing or whatever beekeeping story. Can 00:15:19.590 --> 00:15:21.529 you think of one or two that you'd like to share 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:26.210 with us? Yes, yes, yes. I'll tell you a real 00:15:26.210 --> 00:15:31.450 funny and unbelievable story. I was in the 2012 00:15:31.450 --> 00:15:35.049 in Budapest in Hungary. I invited to give a lecture 00:15:35.049 --> 00:15:37.909 on AP puncture. It was a conference organized 00:15:37.909 --> 00:15:41.009 by the Hungarian Apitherapy Society. And it was 00:15:41.009 --> 00:15:43.970 a professor from China speaking about AP puncture. 00:15:44.090 --> 00:15:47.009 Very, very interesting conference. And then at 00:15:47.009 --> 00:15:48.970 the end of the conference, one of the beekeepers 00:15:48.970 --> 00:15:52.629 from Hungary, he gave me a big jar of honey, 00:15:52.950 --> 00:15:56.149 acacia honey, Hungarian acacia honey. Hungarians 00:15:56.149 --> 00:15:59.779 are very famous for acacia honey. So I was so 00:15:59.779 --> 00:16:01.659 happy, so I said, oh, thank you very, very much. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:05.460 So I took this jar of honey, but my luggage, 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.720 like check luggage, was already full with books, 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.279 with other things. So the only place where I 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.779 could put this one kilogram of honey was in my 00:16:13.779 --> 00:16:17.740 rucksack. Okay. And then I thought to myself, 00:16:17.740 --> 00:16:21.379 I arrived to the airport, like to fly back to 00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:23.259 Romania. And on the airport, I was thinking, 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:26.100 okay, okay. But I cannot go with this jar of 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:29.600 honey, one kilo. one liter because the customs 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.039 people will say no you are not allowed because 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:35.480 you only 100 milliliter take it away throw it 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.379 away and i was so depressed what to do what to 00:16:38.379 --> 00:16:41.700 do what to do and as i thinking oh it's not so 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.240 good to give my honey to these custom people 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.799 they don't know nothing about apitherapy and 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.360 so what to do what to do and then i decide okay 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:57.799 i will eat it so i was having a whole kilo Okay, 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:02.659 so I enter into a cafeteria. I bought two bottles 00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:07.180 of water. I sit on the table with my laptop doing 00:17:07.180 --> 00:17:10.799 emails. But in fact, I was taking a teaspoon 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.980 of honey, then a bit of water. A teaspoon of 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:16.819 honey, a bit of water. So I do this like every 00:17:16.819 --> 00:17:19.720 minute almost. water honey water honey water 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.140 honey and after about one hour i listen to the 00:17:23.140 --> 00:17:28.500 this sound system come to gate for bucarest flight 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:33.779 so when i look to the to the my jar i i ate in 00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:39.019 this one hour half of it like 500 grams of like 00:17:39.019 --> 00:17:43.829 one pound of honey in in one hour so And because 00:17:43.829 --> 00:17:46.130 I am medical doctor, I was medical doctor. I 00:17:46.130 --> 00:17:48.549 wanted also to check. It was first time in my 00:17:48.549 --> 00:17:50.950 life doing this. I said, okay, I will check myself. 00:17:51.069 --> 00:17:53.809 I will experiment on myself. Should I have a 00:17:53.809 --> 00:17:57.049 diabetic coma, you know, through hyperglycemia 00:17:57.049 --> 00:17:59.869 or maybe something like hyperglycemia or heart 00:17:59.869 --> 00:18:02.170 problem and so on. And I said, okay, I'm in a 00:18:02.170 --> 00:18:04.450 safe environment. I'm in an airport, international 00:18:04.450 --> 00:18:06.329 airport. If something happens to me, I go to 00:18:06.329 --> 00:18:09.710 the hospital quickly. so the big surprise was 00:18:09.710 --> 00:18:13.450 that it was absolutely no adverse reaction no 00:18:13.450 --> 00:18:17.230 stomach pain no headache no nothing and it was 00:18:17.230 --> 00:18:20.470 perfectly and the same kind of experiment that 00:18:20.470 --> 00:18:23.690 i did a couple of years later in switzerland 00:18:23.690 --> 00:18:26.930 i received also a jar of honey and it was no 00:18:26.930 --> 00:18:30.250 problem what is the explanation the explanation 00:18:30.250 --> 00:18:33.980 is that i took the honey with water If you want 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:37.019 to take the honey directly as it is, it is too 00:18:37.019 --> 00:18:41.460 aggressive. Although you may have seen in Turkey, 00:18:41.539 --> 00:18:44.839 they have a competition where several people 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.319 who eat more honey in the smallest period of 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.000 time, like one kilo of honey, they can eat like 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.460 in a couple of minutes, not like me in one hour. 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.160 So the body has huge capacities of accepting 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.079 the honey. Of course, the people with diabetes 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:04.180 must be cautious. Of course, they should not 00:19:04.180 --> 00:19:06.759 do this experiment. But the idea is that if you 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:09.259 take with water, and I spoke with a professor 00:19:09.259 --> 00:19:12.200 from Egypt about this, I said, Stefan, you did 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.890 well because you took with water. when you need 00:19:15.890 --> 00:19:18.950 huge amounts of energy, you put honey in water 00:19:18.950 --> 00:19:23.009 and you add lemon juice. Lemon juice diminishes 00:19:23.009 --> 00:19:25.829 the glycemia, the glucose level in the blood. 00:19:26.329 --> 00:19:28.410 Then it's everything okay. You can drink one 00:19:28.410 --> 00:19:31.930 to three liters of such lemonade very well, especially 00:19:31.930 --> 00:19:35.269 in the summertime. So this was one of the funny 00:19:35.269 --> 00:19:40.210 stories in my experience. Dr. Stefan, I'm going 00:19:40.210 --> 00:19:43.380 to give you the last word. leave us with any 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:46.660 one thought that you'd like to. Oh, thank you 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:50.859 very much for this thought. So looking to all 00:19:50.859 --> 00:19:54.480 this, my story, my life story, the bees, the 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:58.240 bee products, the beekeeping, it's amazing. And 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:03.200 it's a pity not to use all we can learn or all 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.880 we can get from the bees. So my best advice to 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.460 the people who are looking to us is to start 00:20:11.560 --> 00:20:15.160 learning about the composition of the B products 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.500 to know what kind of substances are in the B 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:21.279 products, like this biochemistry. It may be a 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:24.160 bit dry, but if they understand the composition 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.079 of the B products, then they can understand the 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.039 effects, the properties, like pharmacological 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.059 properties, but just properties. And once they 00:20:33.059 --> 00:20:35.359 understand the composition and the properties, 00:20:35.849 --> 00:20:39.890 they can go like start flying, like they go, 00:20:40.109 --> 00:20:42.589 they can treat or prevent hundreds of diseases. 00:20:43.309 --> 00:20:46.230 And it's just a matter of knowledge. So they 00:20:46.230 --> 00:20:48.970 need a couple of days or weeks to study these 00:20:48.970 --> 00:20:51.769 things. And that's why for many, many years I'm 00:20:51.769 --> 00:20:54.730 offering this online course. So the people, they 00:20:54.730 --> 00:20:57.769 take this 100 lessons and they have all the time 00:20:57.769 --> 00:21:01.910 to understand every concept. Because if you add 00:21:01.910 --> 00:21:05.569 to this beekeeping practice, you add the knowledge 00:21:05.569 --> 00:21:07.769 on the health properties of the bee products, 00:21:08.130 --> 00:21:11.529 it's completely other story. And in fact, we 00:21:11.529 --> 00:21:15.670 live for two big reasons, to love the people 00:21:15.670 --> 00:21:18.750 and to have a better, better wisdom. And this 00:21:18.750 --> 00:21:22.049 can come also through the study of apitherapy. 00:21:22.670 --> 00:21:26.410 That's Dr. Stefan Stengetsu. Thank you so very 00:21:26.410 --> 00:21:32.000 much. I really appreciate your time today. That 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.440 wraps up our series on Apitherapy and our second 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:38.220 season of Be Love Beekeeping presented by Man 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.500 Lake. If you haven't yet, please subscribe to 00:21:41.500 --> 00:21:43.819 and follow the show. Tell your friends about 00:21:43.819 --> 00:21:47.220 it. Click on over to BLoveBkeeping .com and sign 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:50.000 up for our free newsletter. And a shout out to 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.380 V2B Health for their support also. 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