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25:27So when you're putting on some that smells nice, it can attract men. When you are using something like ginseng or rhodiola rosea or eleuthero, these are roots. These are herbs that grow in the ground in really harsh environments like Siberia. So it makes you more resilient. And so in a very way, I love that you explained this sort of honey. You are harnessing the healing properties of that plant. The same thing it's going to benefit to be. It'll benefit our body in a very, very similar way. One thing I didn't mention about royal jelly that's really interesting, the studies on brain health. Royal jelly is so powerful for focus memory concentration.

26:04It's being studied for prevention of neurodegenerative conditions. It's cool because royal jelly contains these fatty acids that are only naturally occurring in royal jelly. They cannot be found naturally occurring anywhere else. They're called AMPN1 oxide and 10-HDA, and they basically stimulate neurogenesis. So they help your brain to create new fresh neurons. And I love using royal jelly just for focus memory concentration. I was taking some royal jelly before we started. I'd love to do that before we record. But it's fantastic for both sort of the short-term effect when you really need to be in the zone, but also for preventing neurodegenerative conditions.

26:43Yeah, that's so, so powerful. That's so interesting about the fatty acids. I think that there are, as you referenced, very unique. And we find this in other things as well. There's another fatty acid that's sort of become popularized today called C15. But there are a lot of fatty acids that aren't necessarily well known or popular, but do have tremendous benefits. And another category are peptides. I'm working on developing a line of peptides right now. And I had a back injury years ago and was told I would be permanently disabled. I'm not. I'm back to 100%. But a big part of my healing process was using very specific peptides.

27:20And so this has become a passion of mine. but I started doing a lot of research on what foods have the highest level of unique peptides. And so they sort of categorically, you've got amino acids, you've got proteins and peptides, and peptides tend to be that kind of in between aminos or tend to be two to 49 sort of chains of aminos. But they tend to support communication, cellular communication within the body and very good for cellular health. The number one animal product that is high in peptides are organ meats. Organ meats are incredibly high. And so if somebody has a heart issue, they should eat heart.

27:59If somebody has a liver issue, they should eat liver. But when I started looking at plants, what has the highest and other sort of animal based products, we know that colostrum, we have these in milk, in spirulina and chlorella, these algaes, which are actually forms of microbes are actually very high but then one of the other very very highest on the top 10 was honey um honey was very high in peptides predominantly in bee pollen and it royal jelly had some actually really really unique longevity peptides is full of longevity peptides yeah yeah yeah royal jelly i think we're in the early days of even understanding how powerful royal jelly is for longevity and again we can look at the biological effects in the beehive because it's it's pretty clear there But all bee products from propolis to royal jelly to honey, their chemical composition is so unique because they're hitting, the bees are hitting thousands of different plants to create these products.

28:57Propolis itself, the bees are hitting thousands of different trees, flowers, plants to collect the base ingredient. And so we're harnessing the power. And, you know, you're talking about resilience and what that creates in the body. We're harnessing the power of all these different plants that have survived different elements, bringing it back to the hive, mixing it with the live enzymes that the bees are creating that, again, are incredibly powerful. Bees have been around since prehistoric times. And so the peptide cocktail and the chemical composition of these different bee products coming from the hive, it is, I believe, one of the most powerful things you can do to just increase your body's resilience, increase your longevity.

29:39create more balance, bring your body back to homeostasis, especially in the world of today where we're exposed to so many chemicals, no matter how clean of a lifestyle we have. Generally speaking, honey is such a powerful form of medicine. I did read a study, though, that this is out of Texas A &M University, that said that 76 % of the honey people are buying today off the shelf isn't even truly honey. It is so processed, heated, and filtered that there is zero pollen and oftentimes zero of these benefits, all these beneficial factors we're talking about, they don't exist in the majority, more than 75%, 76 % of the honey today that everyone is buying is basically sugar.

30:20It's not real honey. I'm so happy you brought this up because it is a huge problem and people need to know what to look for. For one, pasteurization. Pasteurization, when you buy honey out of the squeezy bottle and it comes out all liquidy and it's got that picture perfect consistency that has been pasteurized and that's how you get that consistency because unpasteurized honey it will crystallize over time it will get hard you have to really use your muscles to get it out of that jar and you actually want that but you know the average person isn't aware of that and we were sold this concept of honey that it is squeezy and easy to spread on toast but you want honey that is unpasteurized or raw those are the two buzzwords you're looking for.

31:02And what what pasteurization is, is you're heating it, you're boiling it to such a high point that you're cooking out all of those incredible enzymes and vitamins and minerals and growth factors, and you're left with sugar water. So most of the honey on the market has been pasteurized. And a lot of the honey on the market is not pure honey. People are cutting it with corn syrup, agave, all kinds of things. So you really do have to pay attention to your sourcing and really know what to look for and always, always make sure it's raw and unpasteurized. One of the things I found for myself is, is that one, and let me just share, it's one of those things where like, I like putting it in my matcha in the morning, but I have to mix it really well because like it sinks to the bottom.

31:43I mean, you know, cause it's so funny because you will do that. Yeah. Cause growing up, I remember I used honey, which wasn't real honey and I would put it, you know, put it in something and it would just mix so easy. You know, it's like, I do a little spoon. It was almost like sugar and it was immediately blended. And then, you know, quite a long time ago when I started going to my local farmer's market, buying real honey, this stuff would just sink to the bottom. It's like, man, I got to sit here with my blend. You know, I actually have to throw in a blender or use one of those hand mixers. A spoon doesn't really do it very well in order to actually get it mixed.

32:14But that's one way, you know, if you're listening to this is you can actually take a cold glass of water and see, does it drop down and sort of clump down at the bottom? Or does it sort of start dispersing throughout? Or, you know, if you can stir it with a spoon just a few times and it mixes, that's, that's not real honey. It's not real honey. And, you know, depending on when the honey's harvested, it could be more melty. Great raw honey could be more melty if it was harvested maybe a month ago. But it depends on the floral source. It depends on when it's harvested. And you should see that over time, it hardens, it gets a little crusty.

32:49That is the natural process of crystallization and it's what you want to see. I mean, it's pretty amazing. You know, I did an episode about a year ago on the benefits of honey and I went kind of go through it, went through a lot of the history and it's amazing to look back and say, you know, when they opened up a lot of these tombs in Egypt, they found that there was one thing that remained and it was honey. I want to say maybe they've also found the other oldest thing to honey was like an an essential oil resin, but overall, nothing else survived except for honey. I mean, that's amazing to think about.

33:21The enzymes are so powerful. Even, you know, you think about that for digestion, or if you're, let's say you're traveling and I've had situations where everyone I'm with gets food poisoning except for me. And I swear it's because I've been using my problems all the time. So things like that, like these are things that are tools there. They can help with digestion. They can help to build up gut support. They can help to fight bacteria if you're exposed. But yeah, honey is the only food in the world that is nutritionally intact after thousands and thousands of years. So, you know, it's a testament to all of the different incredible benefits of honey.

33:57And something that's been really interesting as a parent, and I know you can relate to this, all of the studies showing that honey is just as effective as all of these over-the-counter cough syrup. Like why would we give our kids chemicals when honey does the trick? That's right. Yeah, absolutely agree. One of the really cool things about honey that I was excited about when I started reading a lot on more of the scientific literature is its ability to help balance moisture in areas. I had an injury years ago, and I tore off the tendon on my ankle, had to have it repaired. And so they had to go in and sort of cut part of my leg open, and it was going to leave a big scar.

34:34but I created this mixture and for 90 days it was honey mixed with calendula and a few essential oils like helichrysum and that's all I put on there I basically just left it covered like that for for three months and almost zero scar I mean somebody could look today and unless you're using like a mic it's almost impossible to see but almost anyone else that would have done that they would have had a major major scar there and so I started reading about how honey will push out too much moisture and bring in the exact right amount of moisture to allow scars or anything to heal at its optimal level.

35:08And so that's one of the reasons why it lasts so long is it actually can create the perfect amount of moisture in the area for itself to where it never goes bad. And this is really important for skin. I mean, think about the benefits for anti-aging longevity of skin. I put honey all over my face. I do a mask with honey and propolis. In Poland, in the burn ward they will use bandages with honey and propolis propolis for its antibacterial anti-inflammatory healing properties honey for its for also its healing properties it's it's moisture balance it's a humectant so many amazing applications for skincare but i do a honey propolis mask once a week and i swear by it i feel like it's just really changed my skin and the science is there there's a lot of studies as well looking at things like contact dermatitis psoriasis eczema these are powerful home remedies.

35:56My daughter, Arwen, when she was a one, she had cradle cap. And we tried actually a lot of the natural products on it. And it just was not going away. I put on Manuka honey. Boom. Three days later, like completely gone. It was just absolutely amazing. The growth factors in all of these different bee products are exceptional and have so many healing properties. You can take back control of your metabolism, your energy, and your hormones naturally. I've put together an in-depth practical training to help you balance your hormones using powerful foods, herbs, and natural lifestyle strategies that actually work.

36:38If you're ready to start feeling like yourself again, go to draxhormoneclass.com or click the link in the description to begin your healing journey today. That's draxhormoneclass.com to take back your health naturally. One of the things I love about natural products, I've written about this a lot over my career in terms of, hey, let's compare turmeric to ibuprofen, or let's compare oil of oregano to a broad spectrum antibiotic. So let's compare the effectiveness and the safety. And it's amazing to look at how herbs and food-based products that are superfoods, how they compare and they can typically perform equally, sometimes outperform, but then have zero side effects compared to the medication.

37:23In fact, I want to say one third of all medications today were developed from natural products, but then they were made synthetically. So they're going to have side effects and also lose some of the other beneficial qualities there. But honey is very similar. I know that there was a study recently that you quoted comparing honey to cough syrup. Yeah, it's so I love what you're speaking about, by the way, because I am obsessed with this. I am obsessed with what's in the pharmaceutical world, what in the medicine cabinet has been altered. And sure, maybe it's a bandaid solution here, but it creates all of these other issues.

37:58I have such a belief that anything we're putting in our body should only it should be a net positive, particularly when we're sick. So there was this big study and it was looking at upper pediatric respiratory infections. It was comparing buckwheat honey, which is a certain type of honey, to dextromethorphan. Dextromethorphan is the active ingredient used in most cough syrups. Most cough syrups you can find is either phenylephrine or dextromethorphan. This study found that buckwheat honey was just as effective, not slightly less, but with less side effects, straight up just as effective as dextromethorphan for treating upper pediatric respiratory infections.

38:35So when I read that, I was like, why would you ever give a kid dextromethorphan when honey does the trick? And it's natural and has all these other health benefits. And interestingly, phenylephrine, which is the other, these are two actives that are in Robitussin and Vicks and all of these conventional cough syrups that most of us grew up purchasing and thinking were helping us. Phenylephrine is now being recalled by the FDA because it doesn't even work. It's just a chemical. that does not help you. That's right. It's crazy. You know, I'm not going to go on my tangent here, but I could. But, you know, it does blow my mind that you've got something like berberine that is so effective for blood sugar, and yet metformin is still being prescribed, which depletes your body of numerous nutrients, right?

39:19Or statin drugs, when you could be taking, you know, a blend of things like coenzyme Q10 and garlic and omega-3s. Like, like there's one reason why that doesn't happen today. And it has to do with the pharmaceutical companies can make these drugs for pennies. Yeah. And then sell them and make, again, it's trillions of dollars in this industry. And so that's the only reason today why it's not mainstream is just the amount of money being poured into this. Such a big issue today. And I talk, I speak about this with physicians all the time, specifically about Propolis. Propolis has so much healing potential for so many different ailments.

39:58It's so well tolerated. It's something you can use every day to prevent and protect and support your body. So why doesn't the average person know about it? And it's because it's all natural. You can't patent something that's natural. That's right. You can take natural things and alter them and create a synthetic version and patent them and make billions of dollars. But with something natural, there's not as much money in it. And so the pharmaceutical companies don't go after it. and we're not made aware of it. And it's, you know, in the rest, other parts of the world, it's so deeply ingrained in the medical system.

40:31In Europe, everyone knows what propolis is. People use propolis their entire childhood. Whereas in the U.S., people just aren't aware. Yeah, my wife loves dogs. She and one of her friends are always talking about starting a, basically a dog island, you know, having dogs going, you know, adopting like all these dogs. Anyways, so, and I'm, I like dogs a lot. We've got two of them. and but she's above and beyond where I'm at, but I love dogs. But I love bees. Like when you do the research about, like we need bees to survive. It's crazy how important they are for our ecosystem. I spent so much time in regenerative agriculture and looking at how do we heal the planet?

41:11And from an animal standpoint, maybe the most important animal that we need to help proliferate in the world are bees. 100%. And one of the things that's happening due to the high pesticide content, the glyphosate, all these chemicals that are being sprayed everywhere. Our bees are dying in a lot of areas. Do you have any more, I guess, thoughts or information on that in terms of what's happening due to the pesticides in the bee population? So first of all, I've been working in pesticide regulation for over a decade. It is, I believe we're in a state of crisis and this is one of the most important things for human health going forward, the pesticides being used, not only are they deeply affecting the bees, and the bees pollinate one-third of our food supply, one-third of our food supply, and over 40 % of wildflowers rely on honeybees for pollination.

42:05So if we lose the bees, think about how that would affect our ecosystem. And the foods that we're losing are like fruit. The natural foods. I mean, literally, fruit is gone. Think about the inflation. Yeah. How much more expensive it becomes to eat your fruits and vegetables if we lose these creatures. And we're seeing that happen right now. So it's been really interesting as a beekeeper myself to see how the industry shifted. So I spend a lot of time focused on how to create regenerative, safe environments for bees because we need them. I work with them. It's essential for human life. And what I've seen over the years is because bees are dying, commercial pollination, which is a different industry, different from beekeeping, which is what I do.

42:53Commercial pollination is when you work as a beekeeper to manage your bees, but you truck them around to different farmers and crops. You let them loose to pollinate and then bring them back. And that industry has surged in the past several years because there's not enough local bees because so many of them are dying due to pesticides. and commercial pollination can actually be really hard on bees. It can be done properly. It can be managed really well. Oftentimes it's not. You're putting bees on a truck, bringing them over to this farm, covered in pesticides with a monocrop, a single type of plant, letting them loose to pollinate.

43:26The bees are getting all kinds of exposure to pesticides. They lose out on having a varied diet and lose out on that biodiversity. And then also the stress of transferring them, even though you can transfer bees safely and humans have been doing it for a long time. There's evidence that bees were sent down the Nile in a little boat. So you can do it, but the way it's being done today, specifically with the pesticide exposure, is so problematic. So a lot of what I do in my work as a beekeeper is I work with people to figure out regenerative ways. How can we create a habitat for bees where they're not getting exposed to those pesticides?

44:03How can we create more biodiversity, whether it's through margin planting, which is just planting different varied wildflowers in the margins of big agro crops. But really, how can we spray less? Because the pesticides today, it's terrible. I mean, most people living in America today have pesticide in their blood and urine. Children have. Oh, it's like 99%. It's incredibly high. Yeah, incredibly high. And we've seen a spike over the years in autoimmune, in digestive issues. And we've seen that spike move up with the use of glyphosates going up. And it's crazy because we're right now in this state of affairs where regulators are looking at things in a way that's very profit driven.

44:46And the truth is when these things are being tested, usually each chemical is tested in isolation. They're not looking at the cocktail effect. And we are exposed to the cocktail effect. We are getting pesticides in our water. We're getting pesticides in our food. We're breathing it in in the air or dust particles. it's really important to protect yourself and to also be aware of what's happening and advocate. Yeah. The CDC now estimates that one in every three adults has pre-diabetes. The signs are there long before a diagnosis. Things like constant fatigue, stubborn belly fat, sugar cravings, brain fog, frequent urination, and increased thirst.

45:28And these are all symptoms of insulin resistance, the root cause behind most cases of type 2 diabetes. Now, here's the good news. This condition is completely reversible with the right diet, lifestyle, and healing herbs. And if you or someone you love is struggling with blood sugar issues, head over to DrAxeDiabetesClass.com to watch a free training on how to naturally balance your blood sugar and reverse your symptoms. That's DrAxeDiabetesClass.com to take back control of your health today. Pesticides, I mean, they're so prevalent in our world right now, and it's never been more important that we take control and take care of our health.

46:14So the things I'm always telling people to do, check your water source, reverse osmosis water. So important. Purchasing organic. I know it's more expensive, but it is a really important health choice for your family. Your air, if you can do air filtration, that's really important as well. And then supporting people who are working in regenerative beekeeping. That's the best thing you can do for the bees. Sometimes I see vegans and they're like, we don't want to use bee products. And I'm like, well, are you eating blueberries or almonds? because commercial pollination was used to grow those things.

46:47So if you really want to support the bees, working with companies or supporting companies, or it can be at your local farmer's market, but finding people that are working in regenerative beekeeping, working with the bees in a way where they can eliminate pesticide exposure, increase biodiversity, and support their health and longevity. One thing we're going to see in the future is not just organic. We're going to see regenerative organic certified on labels. And this is something to wear again. Do everything you can, as Carly's saying. Shop your local farmer's market, but support regenerative, regenerative, regenerative.

47:18It's going to help heal the bees, heal the planet, allow you to have more nutrients in your food. It's going to build back the soil, help the environment. It's being good stewards. And I couldn't agree more. One of the last things I want to talk about, and this is so fascinating, is bee venom therapy. Bee venom therapy is so exciting. I was having a conversation with someone the other day and I was actually comparing bee venom to Ozempic. So Ozempic, which is super popular now, it's helped a lot of people with diabetes, all kinds of things. The origin, what inspired that product was the hula lizard, the hula monster, I think it's called, or huli.

48:00It's a type of lizard that has a venom. And that is what was sort of the inspiration for Ozempic. And I think bee venom in the next decade or so, it is going to inspire a whole new generation of cancer drugs. I think bee venom has the ability to heal so many different issues. Bee venom is really interesting. It contains this compound called melatonin. And melatonin has been shown to attack cancer cells. It's been showed with late stage breast cancer to attack the cells. We're in the early days of the science. These are test tube studies, not broad human trials. but it is very, very exciting. And then applications with Lyme disease too.

48:41Bee venom can attack the biofilms and break through the biofilms and attack the bacteria that causes all the symptoms for Lyme disease. So there's more and more coming out about bee venom and I think it's just so exciting. Yeah, I read this study a few months back on bee venom for cancer and the anti-cancer properties and it's really powerful. You know, I had a friend of mine who was sort of a, what would I call him? A sort of an adventure sports nut and did all kinds of adventure sports, but always injuring himself with doing this. And he had bees that he had raised and he basically just anytime he had an injury, he went and did a series of like typically three times over the course of a few weeks and he would just sting himself.

49:26And so like he had, you know, and he's like, I had wrist pain for years. He's like, I literally had this pain where I couldn't do pushups. I couldn't do anything for years. and I did bee venom therapy a few times on my wrist and I've not had pain since. People are using bee venom therapy for all kinds of pain, joint issues. Yeah, it's really exciting. It's like the original regenerative medicine. Yeah, I get stung by bees all the time just doing what I do. Yeah, as an aporist, sure. So every single time that happens, I'm kind of like, ooh, that hurts. But I'm getting some really great health benefits.

49:59But yeah, it's really exciting. And I think, again, with whether it's bee venom or propolis or royal jelly, where we've been using these different things for thousands of years. But I feel like science is now really turning attention to this world of bee based medicines. And I think we're just going to learn so much more about it and see so much more potential. Yeah, I love it. You know, one of the things that I'm excited about proactive about is we've got Jordan Rubin and I own a lot of farmland. And we own 4000 acres in Missouri and another 150 in Tennessee here in our Tennessee farm. We all we have a lot of bees.

50:34So so we raise bees on and but I'm also getting a homestead like we're building a home right now in Nashville, Chelsea and I. And we bought 10 acres. And so we're going to do a couple mini cows. We're going to do a smaller because zebu. We're going to do sheep. We're doing ducks and chickens. And we're also going to do honeybees. And so I actually had a honey, a local aparis expert who is going to help us with that. And but I'm excited just just to raise like our girls around it and for them, you know, to put on the suits and go out there and and, you know, care for the bees and get our local, you know, and get our honey from the hive and all that.

51:11And yeah, I'm excited. There were so many people, especially through COVID, that started saying, you know what? We've become so separate from nature and understanding that you just feel better in nature. I mean, think about when we vacation. It's like, okay, going to the beach, going up in the mountains, going in a lake, putting your feet on the bare ground. There's something healing about it. And that very same way, honey is incredibly healing. Again, it's nature's medicine. it's been used for thousands of years in the most ancient form of medicine. Modern science today is investigating the benefits around it, fighting cancer.

51:46You know, when we're talking about venom or propolis, some of these amazing superfoods. So honey is it's really incredible. And I want to encourage everybody again. It's really simple. Just add honey into your local into your diet. Make sure it's real honey, though. You know, go to your local farmer's market and get some honey. go out there and get some good quality honey products or bee products like propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, depending on what your goals are, maybe a honey with MGO. But there are so, so many benefits of honey as nature's medicine for longevity, for cancer, for immunomodulation, for autoimmune disease, for fighting viruses, things like COVID, all of these different conditions, honey is beneficial for.

52:29And it's beneficial for everything from one years old up to past 100. And that's so unique even compared to herbals and a lot of other things out there. And so Carly, thanks so much for coming on today and sharing about the amazing benefits of honey. Also, thanks so much for all the great work you're doing. Thank you so much for having me. And let people know where they can find you on social media and - Yeah, so beekeepers underscore naturals. We have all kinds of info about everything we're working on there. My Instagram is carly.kremer. You can find me on TikTok at Carly the Beekeeper. And yeah, we love to hear from you.

53:04So if anyone has any questions about honey, propolis, bees, regenerative farming, pesticides, please reach out. Awesome. Well, hey, thanks for watching, everyone. And hey, if you're watching on YouTube, we'd love to hear from you. What is your biggest takeaway from some of the wisdom that Carly shared today? Do you use honey? Have you ever used propolis or royal jelly or bee pollen? We'd love to hear if you've ever also used honey and seen results in your body. I also want to say thanks so much for tuning in here to the Dr. Josh Jack Show. So remember each and every week we're diving deep into the science of principles of how you can heal physically, mentally, and spiritually.

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