What Benefits Do You Get From Raw Honey?
Allergy Relief
Local raw honey is a natural remedy for allergies, because the pollen inside of raw honey strengthens your immune system against the allergens in the air.
Bees travel and collect nectar from plants and flowers surrounding the area.
During the season, plants release their pollen in the air and people experience allergy symptoms because they’re breathing in all that pollen.
So by taking one tablespoon of local raw honey everyday, it will act like an allergy shot, exposing your body to the local pollen.
It gives your body micro doses of the allergens, so that when the plants start pollinating, your body has built up the tolerance and is immune to the local pollen.
Nutrition and Medicine
When honey is unprocessed and unfiltered, it is packed with beneficial vitamins, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants.
Eating an antioxidant-rich diet can help:
- Reduce oxidative stress, which is linked to many cancers
- Lower risk for chronic illness
- Improve gut health
- Lower inflammation
Unfiltered raw honey is packed with tons of enzymes that help your digestive health, as well as prevent infections when applied to minor cuts and burns.
Raw honey contains B vitamins like riboflavin, niacin, and B6, which play a big role in energy production and brain function.
It also has many beneficial minerals like calcium, iron, potassium, zinc and magnesium.
Healing Powers
Raw honey has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties; it has been shown to work just as good, and sometimes better than over-the-counter medicine.
Drinking tea or warm water mixed with raw honey, soothes a sore throat and reduces coughing.
With just one spoonful of raw honey, you can kill harmful bacteria in your throat due to its antimicrobial properties.
Raw honey has also been shown to heal cuts, wounds and burns. The antibacterial elements in raw honey are so strong that no bacteria can survive within honey.
It can be used in skin care, and all sorts of natural remedies to kill off germs and bacteria.
Natural Sugar
Raw, unfiltered honey is a natural sugar, that won't raise your blood sugar levels as much as artificially processed sugar.
While honey is sweet, it can help improve insulin sensitivity and reduce inflammation.
Raw honey lowers the harmful (LDL) cholesterol and raises the good (HDL) cholesterol which is beneficial for heart health.
It's also a natural source of energy, containing natural sugars, water, vitamins, minerals, pollen and protein.
What To Do Now?
It's very important that you use raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized, local honey.
The honey in grocery stores has been stripped of all the benefits and nutrients above. Even honey that is branded as “Organic” still has been through a process of filtering to some extent and is farmed in bulk from different regions giving you no allergy benefits.
We have our bees in Chandler, Arizona and our honey is straight out of the hive.
No filtering, no processing, just real Arizona honey, the way nature made it.