How To Heal Naturally, Strengthen Your Immune System, & Stop Getting Sick Ft. Carly Kremer Of Beekeeper's Naturals

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28:01A hundred. Not one. We don't have a single bee product from the U.S. And again, do you know how much money we would save if we did? I wish that we could. I wish that we could from a financial standpoint, but also just like as a person, because I know too much about pesticides and now I'm a psychopath. There's no way you can keep your bees contained. Because they got to go. No. And we wouldn't want to do that. Okay. We will move to Europe. Our bees, a lot of our propolis right now is coming from Italy. We do a lot of work in Brazil. We do a lot of work in France. Almost all of our pollens coming from Spain.

28:31So we have apiaries. Apiaries are bee farms all over the world. But we're only working in pesticide-free zones. So this is actually a cool part of the company that I feel like people don't realize. We do regenerative beekeeping. So everything we do is pesticide-free. It's putting the bees first. And we do that, one, to support the bees because they are an endangered species. And two, to create the purest, cleanest product in the world. What's the best-looking beekeeping suit? Just tell me after. Mine is. I'll show you. I have like a full beekeepers branded one. Let's talk about the bee venom because, you know, people have gone viral.

29:07Now there's people that, you know, there's a lot of people posting. The new study is talking about breast cancer. So, okay. So explain how this works. All I've seen is people stinging, like they take this. Does that kill the bee? It does. So if you take a little piece of mesh and you sting yourself through the mesh, the bee will survive. The bee's stinger is barbed. And so bees cannot sting human skin. without their stinger getting stuck and it ripping out their abdomen and they die. But if you put a little piece of mesh, they can sting you and survive because it's kind of a sweet thing. They can sting other creatures and survive, but if they sting humans, they die.

29:41Wait, so when you get stung by a bee, are you happy about it because it's good for you? It's a mixed emotional experience because if I get stung by a bee and I'm beekeeping, that bee's going to die and that's sad. I don't want to kill bees. But I'm also like, I got some bee venom. That's very good for me. There's melatonin in there. There's all of these different compounds in there that are really good for my long-term health. You should get a little graveyard for your bees. Do you know how many bees I have? It would not be a little graveyard. It would be a huge graveyard. No, it could be like little, you could get like little tombstones and put your bees in a graveyard.

30:22so wait what is in the bee the bee venom or the stinger that has benefits for humans and what's like so bee venom it's it's just now being studied the study that you're probably seeing all over social media it's the one about breast cancer so there was a study showing and it was a very small study and it was i think it was done in in a what's it called in a in a in vitro or in a petri dish or whatever. It wasn't done on humans. So there's still more studies that we need, but it showed that bee venom can attack cancer cells, which is really cool. And the compound in there that's doing that is something called melatonin.

31:01There's a bunch of different compounds in there. And then the other thing that bee venom is being looked at right now for is for pain and arthritis, inflammatory conditions. All bee products are amazing for inflammation. Bee venom is no different. How often, though, do you have to get stung to see results? So there is no broad scale study that's done that. I know people with Lyme disease, they'll sting themselves every day for like two years. I've never done something like that. I also don't have Lyme. I am just casually beekeeping and casually will get stung. I'm not like actively trying to sting myself.

31:35How bad does a bee sting hurt? I can't remember. I was stuck a long time. Does it feel like a Botox needle? Yes, but then it's like a lasting effect. It's like a lasting soreness. okay like pulses in you like this is like a really off tangent question but i'm just wondering say because your daughter's obviously going to get stung by a bee because of what you do what what do you do because to me i'm like get my credit card so you want to take the stinger out with a credit card you're saying swipe this i'm saying swipe the thing i would use tweezers it's like a splinter my daughter would never let me use tweezers on her she would be like no you no way what what else can you do she's dramatic it's dramatic so what can i do you actually don't want to just use a credit card because it could push it in.

32:17Like it's think of it like a splinter. Like you don't want the stinger to get it's like anything like you don't want the stinger to get trapped in there. So I would get the stinger out. Then I would spray propolis on it. Ah, what? I knew you would have a tip. Here's the thing, though. What if you're like out? I saw a little kid playing at my daughter's school and he got stung and the mom doesn't have tweezers on her. So what are we doing? So the stinger prepared doesn't have a Swiss army knife. The stinger isn't necessarily lodged in there. Like check the thing. You'll see the stinger, you can kind of pull it out.

32:46You can sort of pinch the skin like we're popping. Well, it's staying the person that's popping it out. No. OK, so we pop the stinger out and then we spray propolis on it. And that is going to like calm it down. That's going to calm it down, take down the inflammation. It's going to be a little sore. But yeah, the propolis will take down the inflammation for sure. So what other things can you use bee venom for? So this so people are using it with really positive effects for Lyme disease. People are looking at it. I mean, the cancer thing is the thing I'm the most excited about, but that's, again, early days and more science needs to come out there.

33:20And then pain like osteoarthritis, all kinds of like really bad arthritis style conditions, anything that's really inflammatory. But B venom is great at taking down inflammation. But you can also you can use propolis for that same thing. I mean, there are studies in Brazil looking at how propolis can be used to shrink tumors because of the effects on inflammation. How does it feel for you to be such a leader in this space? And are there people that are just trying to keep up? I know a lot about bees and bee products at this point. How long have you been doing it now? Because I remember when we met you and you were a few years into it, but it has to be over a decade now.

34:00It's been a long time. I started beekeeping in 2012. It's cool. I got to work with amazing people. I got to work now with a lot of amazing doctors and researchers and I'm sometimes getting to consult with like pharmaceutical companies that are looking at patenting these things or using them for like pretty serious conditions. Propolis is used in the hospital system in different parts of the world. So I get to meet some really cool people and yeah, do a lot of stuff with B products. You came up to me at Peter Thiel's house? Yeah, I think so. Is that what you were talking about? Yeah. And you were like, I have, you're like, I'm launching this product and this is a time where like Apropolis is like no one knew what it was well I'm like you know is that like a spaghetti and you were like Lauren I'm launching this blah blah blah and then you launched and like it you did create the category to me and now like it we're down the road it probably feels really amazing to create that category it's really the thing that is amazing is I we have we have a lot of clients that are just like people like me people like you guys who just want to stay healthy and then we have customers that have very serious health conditions and they rely on our products for serious recovery and we hear from them I mean we have a lot of customers with rare autoimmune conditions we have customers going through chemo we had we had a woman write in recently she's going through chemotherapy and she's getting these really intense sores in her throat.

35:29And propolis is the only thing that takes down the inflammation and takes reduces the pain. So we we have people write in all the time with just like crazy recovery stories. And I think that like that's what fires up me that my whole team like we all read those together. And, you know, when one of those comes through through customer service, we like share them in the general slack. And it's really beautiful to see that. if I get an allergy because sometimes I'll get a wild hair and get an allergy sometimes I'll drink a certain red wine and I get an allergy in my throat and it's like you know that sound you don't know to make the sound you can make it you do it so annoying he doesn't do the sound you make in the morning for everyone to experience no this is the sound he makes in the morning every morning you need more propolis I'm like a cat throwing a before ball you know what you need we just launched throat soother it's propolis with menthol and slippery yam.

36:21Michael, you need that. I woke up the other morning at 6 a.m. and all I hear in the bathroom is, okay, you'll like this. Also, it feels like icy. It's like really cooling. Your husband doesn't wake up and make sounds in the morning? No, but he takes propolis every day. You're not taking enough. He actually is obsessed with our throat soother. All right. Okay, so if someone has a perpetual hairball in their throat and a fake cough, Michael, or they're like me who gets a wild hair allergy, can you just spray the propolis in your mouth and it takes it away? It will reduce the histamine response for sure.

36:51Take down inflammation. Yeah, it'll be really effective for something like that. A few years ago, weren't the bees in danger or like they were stressing the bees? Is that still going on or is that getting better? Yeah, it's still going on because of pesticides. So that's why we're so intense. It's one of the many reasons we're so intense about pesticide-free beekeeping, but it's like, it's an uphill battle. I mean, what's happening right now in the US with pesticide regulation, it's devastating. How tied to the bees is the human ecosystem. Completely. One third of our food supply relies on bee pollination.

37:23So our ecosystem would be in shambles if we lost the bees. They've been around since prehistoric times. Taking the bees out of the system is like taking a pillar, like everything would crumble. There's something really grounding about bees. No, but what I was saying is like a spirit. If you think about like, I don't think people, a lot of people don't think about this. I think about it. That's why I should be a beekeeper. How tightly interconnected our ecosystem is. And when you think about some of the medicinal properties and the food sources and the pollination and all these things, from an environmental perspective, it's a real danger, I think, to humanity to lose the bee population.

38:02It's incredibly dangerous. That's why when I meet vegans all the time, and some vegans are anti-bee products, some are not. and I explained to them eating regenerative bee products is actually very good for the bees because you want to support and prop up the industry that's doing things in the right way. Eating blue bears, like more bees die in commercial pollination. So almonds, like eating almonds is more harmful to the bees. Don't the bees like to work too? They do. Yeah. They all like that's what they're meant to do. That's what they're doing all the time. Yeah. It feels like they want to work yeah to make nature very productive yeah i don't know i mean i mean bees will continue no they do though bees are bees are industrious creatures they're constantly foraging they follow a system they all work together and they they have like the one queen who's like the mama of the hive the queen is having oh this is actually interesting about royal jelly so back to royal jelly and fertility.

39:05All bees are given royal jelly for the first three to five days of development. So the same way humans have breast milk, for the first three to five days of life, bees have royal jelly. Then after that, they switch on to a more normal diet of like honey, pollen, the other things. Only the bee who's to become queen keeps up with that royal jelly diet and she develops completely differently than the other bees. So the queen bee will live three to five years versus a regular bee during foraging season who lives six to eight weeks. The queen bee will have 1400 babies a day, whereas regular worker bees don't have reproductive organs.

39:38So just consuming this royal jelly creates like these wild biological changes from a hormonal perspective and from a longevity perspective. And then that like that translates again to humans because it's the royal jelly supporting longevity. It's the royal jelly that's really supporting fertility, supporting brain health, but it's just really cool to see how different it affects bees when they're ingesting it. I'm giving this to my kids every single day, the royal jelly, but what - There you are complaining about having three kids. If queen bee has 1 ,400 a day, Lauren. Yeah, be careful. Yeah.

40:10Oh my gosh. You can't call yourself the queen bee. Like, let me get my body back, Michael. You better get those numbers up, Lauren. No, it's like, he is like a bee. That's what it reminds me of. Like, I'm like, SWAT. But the royal jelly has the liquid Adderall effect too. Like, it's also, it's so good for your brain. I mean, for me, I don't know how it was for you, but coming back postpartum, I was like, oh my God, does my brain still work? And I was taking our brain health every single day. And I feel like it was like an on switch. What about bee pollen? Because I like to have bee pollen in my smoothies.

40:41Is that really good for you? Amazing for you. It's nature's multivitamin. So broad spectrum vitamins and minerals full of branch chain amino acids. Yeah, It also has hormone balancing effects, but it's like the most bioavailable. I don't take a multivitamin. I'm psychotic because we test our products at Beekeepers Naturals to such a high level. We're doing third-party pesticide testing. We're doing heavy metal testing. We're doing all kinds of toxicity testing. And I know that at other companies, they're not necessarily able to invest in that level of testing. And so I don't trust most supplements.

41:16And I think generally people take too many supplements and it burdens your liver. And so for me, bee pollen is my multivitamin. That's all I take. I love having a scoop of your bee pollen with a scoop of coconut oil together. I feel like I got that tip 10 years ago from Kimberly Schneider. Yeah. She would do a scoop of bee pollen. That's like her pre-workout. Yeah. And it really like gives you energy. I think it's called, I want to say, don't quote me on this, energy in a spoon. Yeah, I put a pinch of salt on that too. Okay. It is like the most effective pre-workout. It gives you a lot of energy.

41:52It actually increases your endurance having bee pollen. This is a good question, actually, as a follow-up for you. How are you using these products? That's a good example, the energy in the spoon. What other ways are you creating either, I don't want to say like meals, but or supplements or things that you're using throughout your day? I mean, the propolis, the propolis, like if you're going to use one product and this is like my, this is like an annoying thing for my investors to hear because it's literally our least expensive product, but our propolis throat spray. I think everyone should be taking propolis every day.

42:23One, to support their immune system and two, to reduce inflammation. I think you can get in front of a lot of things that will hurt your body if you're using propolis to protect your system. I guess what I was asked of that in itself, what I was saying, is there other like concoctions you're putting together, like the coconut with the other things, smoothies, like are things you're making with your products? How do you implement it throughout your day into all the different things? Outside of just like taking the products the way you do it. The superfood honey, that's my sweetener, like baking.

42:48I drizzle that on. I love drizzling that. My favorite thing right now is sourdough, avocado. And then I drizzle the superfood honey and I sprinkle some bee pollen on top. That's like my favorite breakfast. That sounds so good. I do this little I call it a rebrand everything's a rebrand with kids and so every day we have honey bear yogurt honey bear yogurt is Greek yogurt with honey on top because they get protein but now I'm going to use this honey instead of the farmer's market I use the honey in my coffee because of what you just told me so this honey one it's better than the farmer's market honey because you know that this one's pesticide free but two the farmer's market honey doesn't have propolis pollen royal jelly in it farmer's market honey doesn't have the propolis, which is what we want.

43:33We want the propolis. We want the royal jelly. Even Manuka, like Manuka doesn't have propolis in it. And propolis is really the antiviral ingredient in the hive. Like it's so much more powerful than Manuka. I just bought a$6 million honey. You know which honey brand I'm talking about. It's$6 million. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. And I bought it. So you're telling me it doesn't have propolis in it? No. God damn it. I should have texted you. Yeah. I just was like, oh my, I got like, This must be like... I know. I know. Manuka is really good marketing. And manuka is great, but it's just bees who pollinate the manuka plant.

44:07Similar properties to bees who pollinate eucalyptus plants. And those bees also make propolis. Propolis is the single ingredient that's going to affect your immune system. So not all honeys are created equal. Definitely not. I would say most honey... By the way, a lot of honey these days, It's cut with corn syrup. It's pasteurized. Like a lot of honey out there is just honestly complete garbage. What about the buckwheat honey? I love buckwheat honey. So do I. Yeah, buckwheat honey is great. So dark honey. Yeah. Yeah. And dark honey has really high antioxidants. So buckwheat honey is super high in antioxidants.

44:42We use the buckwheat honey in our cough syrups. Okay. I can taste that. I know exactly what you're talking about. But the buckwheat honey at the farmer's market still has pesticides on it. You're saying. Yeah. I mean, our buckwheat honey is coming from Europe. What's you have buckwheat honey the one we use in our cough syrup, but can you make like a buckwheat honey product for me? Maybe we'll talk about it What's been the hardest or the most challenging thing about scaling this business over the last decade? I mean we're going against big pharma in a lot of ways and we're going against People people have like really established habits when it comes to getting sick And so and I think also there's like this distrust of stuff.

45:18That's natural. It's like oh, it's natural It must not work as well. And so I think really re-educating people about that and habit changing. And the thing that kind of changed the game for us was working with doctors. Like we now work with doctors all over the country. We work with physicians. We work with pediatricians. Like we work with gastroenterologists. And a lot of them are either prescribing our products on full scripts, prescribing them in private practice. But we had to really bring the doctors in to understand the science because I think for most people, again, it's like going up against big pharma and going up against these huge, huge legacy brands that have been used forever and asking them to completely change their habit.

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52:14I don't know that ad. Do you know that ad? I know what you're talking about. Okay, it's a really... It's really aging us here, Lauren. It's a really nostalgic ad, okay? Go look at this ad when you can. It's like the little boy, he's eating. He's got a cold, right? No, the snowman's eating the soup, and then all of a sudden, he eats the Campbell's soup, and the snow just drops off. There is a nostalgia that people relate to stuff, like a Campbell's soup, like a Dimetap, like a Robitussin. What is it called? Like a NyQuil, like an Advil. They relate it to when they were little. This is my theory.

52:47and when they were sick, it's like their mom or dad was taking care of them and would give them these things. Nothing like taking that Robitussin and thinking of mom. What are you talking about? No, I think of Dimetap. When I think of Dimetap, I remember being like, oh my God, I would feel sick and my mom would come in my room with a spoonful of Dimetap. I remember this. I think when you experience relief, like feeling sick absolutely sucks. You know that feeling when you're sick and it's like, am I ever going to get better? I don't remember what it feels like to be healthy. I used to have that all the time and when you experience relief, you just cling on to that as what you need.

53:18Right. And I think people are clinging on to things that are causing other problems for their body without realizing it. Like what? Well, I think petroleum-based dyes that are in a lot of these cough syrups, a lot of these products. We know about, you know, Flonase. Flonase is, one, it's highly addictive, but two, it's affecting gray matter in our brain. Like it is bad for your brain. And there are people that are using Flonase every single day. So to have it switched to our nasal spray, which is completely non-habit forming, non-addictive, it's not going to hurt your brain in any way and it's going to give you the relief.

53:51It's hard when someone's addicted to something and has been using it for a very long time. So there's a lot of the products that we were kind of sold and maybe even prescribed at a different time that are actually bad for our body. And it's really a re-education. The baby can have the spray? I mean, I gave my baby that spray. We say on the thing. Check with your doctor. Yeah. Check with your doctor. But I gave my daughter nasal spray. I told you she was like four months old. Yep. I told you she had two colds. Her first cold, I think she was maybe five months, but she was really little. And I gave it to her.

54:27And I told my pediatrician and my pediatrician was like, yeah, it's fine. You know more about this than I do. Are you a fan of the nebulizer thing? Do you do that? I like that. I've never had to do it, but I would if I needed to. What about the neti pot? I'm just wondering like what natural, or are you just propolis? If I were to use a neti pot, I would probably put a little propolis in. Oh, that's interesting. So you would spray the propolis in the neti pot? Yeah. And then use it. I spray propolis into my dog's water. Really? Yeah. You're going to be walking around the house spraying it in everyone's water.

55:02I'm so annoying. So when you say like you're up against pharmaceutical or like some of the bigger companies like do you have to fight for shelf space against these people not in this i mean obviously like and do they try to lobby to get that stopped or yeah it's it's really hard to compete in the early days it was really hard and honestly we've been championed by our customers and our because our products work and because we are living in an age where people like to share their hacks that's been really supportive for the company so you know we have people all the time who they're dealing with whatever they're really sick they use our products and then they're all over TikTok about it or you know we have we have so many people all over TikTok talking about our brain health liposomal as nature's Adderall and so you know people experience the benefits and they share that but especially in the early days in the early days I was bootstrapping and it was very very hard to get shelf space it was very very hard to get people to habit switch and it was like a slow growth process it's funny because whenever someone on our team the skinny confidential team gets sick, I send them your elderberry syrup.

56:08I'm like, you have to try this elderberry syrup. That one's really good. And that one has, it's elderberry, it's propolis, it's buckwheat honey, it's shaga. It's got like a lot of just clean ingredients that are backed by science. What can Michael do when he gets a headache? So honestly, I would take propolis. So what I would do is I would fill a glass of water, spray like 10 sprays of propolis and put a little bit of sea salt and just chug that. That's a good tip. I've never tried that. I've had headaches my whole life. I heard, and this could be, I could be completely wrong. I've heard that once you have a trauma or once you have something that triggers a headache, then it can become a lifelong thing because your body knows how to deal with that trauma response.

56:50Like someone loses a parent or something and they get a migraine for the first time, then it's a lifelong thing. I believe in that stuff. I believe in your body keeping track of all of that. But I'm actually just thinking what I want you to do, and I really want you to do this for me, and I will send you so much of this product because and I want you to text me and tell me what happens. Take our brain health liposomal for a month. So I was telling you guys about this off air. We had one of the guys on our medical advisory board, Dr. Clark. We had him go into Dr. Amen's clinic, do a brain scan and then and not taking any of our products.

57:24We had him go off all of his supplements. He was super clean before he did this. So no supplements, did a brain scan with Dr. Amen. And then for a month, he took our brain health product, went back and scanned his brain. And I actually made notes because I didn't remember. It's too much to remember. But this is what we saw from his second brain scan after a month on our brain health product. Improved prefrontal cortex activity. So that would result in better focus, planning and emotional balance. We saw improved memory and language in the temporal lobe. we saw calmer mood and reduced anxiety in the limbic cortex and he's a practicing doctor he's seeing patients all day and he was like texting me as this was happening no dr clark who the guy who we did the study yeah because he's on our board i'm in scandin yeah and and he was like texting me and he's like i'm like remembering stuff like i'm like not writing stuff down like it's kind of weird and i feel like i'm like my wife is telling me i'm really calm and like all this stuff and then we saw better sensory filtering in the thalamus and this one is what i'm really excited about, there was actually healing in areas of his brain that were previously damaged by concussions.

58:27So it can stimulate healing and potentially that could really be helpful for you. Okay. I'm going to try it. Doc Amon has a scan of my brain previously. So maybe I'll do it. Yeah, you can do another one. What if you don't do saber tooth anymore? I've got plenty of concussion experience. If he doesn't do saber tooth anymore, I will. The saber tooth, there's always a saber tooth tiger. He's just like running from a saber tooth tiger. We will be literally on the best vacation, having the best time. And he is looking for that saber tooth tiger. No, but it's funny. Doc Amon scanned both of us. Yeah.

58:59And he said that I'm, I can't remember. I'm going to screw it up now. We've talked about it on a podcast. That I'm like lays on fair. And we've done an episode. And cool and even keel. And we've done an episode with him and he explained our results. So if someone's like curious about what I'm saying here, like we did an episode with Doc Amon and he went over our results. He told me I have to play tennis. But he said weirdly that I have like more of a female wired brain and she has more of a male wired brain. Well, that's why you guys work though. It's the balance. Not like I'm like feminine or she's masculine, but meaning like the way our patterning works.

59:30But he did say that people that have brains that are wired like me will live longer than Lauren because I'm like one of those guys where like - You're looking for danger? And she's like, oh, like walking around. See, I would think it would be the opposite. I would think because I think I'm more like you and my husband's more like Lauren. and like he's like chill about everything and just like fine all the time and i'm always like i'm like looking for everything freaking out about like what pesticides are in what products and i feel like like that stress would make me not live as long i'm the person that's sitting in the fire being like it's fine he says the stress will make you live longer not like bad stress that's in your gut but like the awareness of danger okay good i'm gonna tell oliver this you know here's my thing this is I swear this is how I think too and I've never told you this I don't feel like I need to look for stress because you're doing it for me it's a little bit like having an assistant like help you do things like you're why do I need to look for stress if you're doing that is so real that a hundred percent happens in my house like if I wasn't there I think Oliver would be psychotic but he's like oh no no Carly's already researched this yeah like I have to go sometimes I have to travel for work and she will stay you know she does too but she'll like a lot of times she'll stay with the kids right i worry now i'm double worried because i'm like worried about myself i'm looking around but then i'm like when she's alone without me like who's watching for the danger so i'm like you know neurotically like checking in on her be like is everything okay so i think sometimes she like plays it up when i'm around but when i'm there when i'm not there i think she's like on it does that make sense yes that 100 % happens like when she when i'm there she's like i could just like whatever this guy will figure it out and then i feel like you're really capable when i'm not there you never know because i see you guessing bitch i see you doing things that like you say you can't do when I'm around.

1:01:09Oh, I do that. I do that all the time with Oliver. I'm like, I can't open this. And then he's gone and I'm like lifting weights and like carrying. I don't like to open things though because it does ruin my manicure. Fair, exactly. Yeah, like I feel like you like backflip down the stairs and like karate kick the door when I'm not there. When I'm there, you're like. If you had to recommend, let's all go around the table, one of your products to the audience to start with, what would it be? Propolis. Everyone should be, I know I keep saying this, but there is just so much science behind this ingredient.

1:01:38There's so much value, one, in supporting your immune health and not getting sick anymore, but also fighting inflammation, reducing all the oxidative stress. Taking propolis every day can do that. It's been around for thousands and thousands of years. This isn't a new thing. People across Europe, it's integrated into the medical system. It's crazy that we're so behind in North America. I give my kids the kids one and then there's an adult one. Those are the two that we would recommend and they're so affordable. Tell like, they're like, how much are they? Yeah, it's$14.99. Yeah, it's very affordable.

1:02:09Personally, you know what I'm going to recommend. I've already recommended this to the audience, which is, I call it Liquid Nature Adderall. Our brain health product. Yeah. And I take one of those every day. It's in my purse. I'm a huge fan and it's, I don't, I call it Liquid Adderall. It's brain nootropic. So that is the liposomal one. It's literally the same formula. We just lipolized it because it's more bioavailable. The ones that are in the packets. Exactly same, I'm just liposomal. So it's going to hit you even faster. I'm not going to recommend one because you guys recommended the ones, but I'm going to do it differently.

1:02:40What I'm going to try now, because I'm familiar with your line, is I'm going to do this for a month. I will report back. I also want you to take our nasal spray. Do you take that daily? So now I'm going to do... Oh, for the... No, so I'm going to do the... No, I have not. Do you know what's funny? I've never tried the nasal spray. So the nasal plus, I think I brought you some if I didn't, I'll send it. The nasal plus, and then also the throat soother. So that's a product we just came out with. It's a propolis with menthol and slippery elm. And that one, it's like icy feeling. It's like we launched that one.

1:03:06Our propolis is for every day. And then that one's like when you have a sore throat or if you're like dealing with something in your throat, it's like very cooling. If you get rid of the fake cough and the sound in the morning, it sounds like the velociraptor in Jurassic Park every morning. I will literally, I mean. I think I can do this, Lauren. It is so Sometimes I'm like Is someone playing a joke on me Like is this a real No because I like to kind of announce where I am We know You guys also gave a discount to the audience You can go to beekeepersnaturals.com Slash skinny or enter code skinny You guys gave everyone 20 % off their order You guys can also shop Beekeepers at Target, Whole Foods Walmart, Amazon, CVS and Walgreens You guys are everywhere Damn rapid fire questions you ready favorite random bee fact when the bees over winter they huddle to stay warm and they vibrate at such a frequency that they create so much heat in the hive so they can survive in like a snowy cold place what's a weird or unexpected use for propolis if like any cut any blemish any if you burn yourself i spray it topically oh you can spray it topically that's what i use on my kid you can do it for the stinger too yeah the bee sting i mean if my kid gets scraped at the playground, like if I have anything.

1:04:30Actually, I got microneedling and I put propolis all over my face. Oh, that's so smart. Salmon, semen and propolis me up. Yep. That's the combo. Seriously. That is actually very, very smart. It's actually very Korean because propolis is used all Korean skincare. Like it's huge, huge, huge. Smart. You know what? Stacey Christie, who does our facials uses her own propolis mix that I believe is Epicurean. And the way it soothes your face is like, she'll like, you know how they like really get in there with the skin and she uses it as the last step. You know, that step she like paints jelly on your face.

1:05:08I don't know if she's done that step with me. Thanks, Stacey. It's the best. So if you, you'll see though, like even like a sunburn, if you have any kind of burn, spray propolis on it like i burn myself cooking sometimes i'm very clumsy and literally like i spray the propolis on it and i'm fine yeah i know what you're saying because when i get that facial she like like heats my face up and then she cools it down with the ice roller and puts the propolis on it's like ah feels good okay my sounds coming out of my mouth beekeepersnaturals.com skinny code skinny carly where can everyone find you to say hello So my Instagram is Carly.Kramer.

1:05:46I'm on TikTok at Carly the Beekeeper and just all over Beekeepers Naturals. We are on every social platform and we love to connect. Huge fan. Congratulations. We've seen you do this for a long time. It's pretty incredible. Thank you.