200mg fresh royal jelly in acacia honey and wheatgerm oil. Unlocking The Secrets of The Beehive February 29, 2012 by Jonathan Bechtel 28 Comments royal jelly health benefits The nutritional complexity of the bee hive is vast. A very unique complex of micronutrients is required to allow the lil' buggers to differentiate themselves into their different roles and provide the nutrition necessary to keep the hive going. Royal Jelly is a honey bee secretion that allows a specific bee larvae to grow into the Queen Bee. Neat, huh? Modern spectrometric analysis suggests that royal jelly contains about 185 different organic compounds, with the most important one being a protein called royalactin. It's believed that royalactin is the compound in royal jelly most responsible for allowing a larvae to morph into the queen bee. Royal Jelly as a Green Superfood It doesn't take much imagination to believe that royal jelly has a wide variety of unique health benefits. What I love about royal jelly is there is so much literature surrounding its different medicinal uses that it's difficult to condense into a single article. However, an incomplete list would look like this: Enhances the immune system Promotes wound healing Has antitumor/anticancer properties Lowers cholesterol levels Increases fat metabolism Is a powerful antioxidant Regulates blood sugar levels Royal jelly health benefits can be observed at low dosage levels. A frequent caveat with "food as medicine" studies is that the observed health benefits only occur when patients have taken way more of the food than you would normally with a typical diet. The amount of royal jelly needed to get the desired nutritional "oomph" can easily be obtained through a good supplement. (Like Health Kismet's green superfood powder). Royal Jelly, Tumor Suppression, and Cancer Fighting Royal jelly has strong cancer and tumor suppressing abilities. Its been successfully used in treatments for leukemia, and several studies have shown that its effective at reducing the adverse side effects of chemotherapy drugs. A study published in Folia Pharmacologia Japonica in 1987 found that implanted mice tumors that were treated orally with royal jelly displayed tumor suppression rates between 45% and 55%, and cell life was extended between 17% and 20% longer than mice not given royal jelly. Cisplatin is a powerful chemotherapy drug that also has a few deleterious side effects, mainly damage to the kidneys and liver. However, a few clinical trials have demonstrated that administration of cisplatin in conjunction with royal jelly significantly negates its deleterious consequences on liver and kidney health. It's believed royal jelly achieves these effects by decreasing lipid peroxidation, and increasing the potency of antioxidants within the body like superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione (GSH) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST). Fat Metabolism and Blood Sugar Royal jelly also seems to do good things for your body's ability to burn fat. At least one reason royal jelly has this effect is that it inhibits lipid peroxidation within the body. Without getting too technical, lipid peroxidation is the process by which fatty acids in the body have electrons become available for "theft" by free radicals, which leaves the fatty acids malformed, and the body is unable to metabolize them. If this happens often enough, the malformed fatty acids start to add up. This is one of the reasons belly fat is such a common problem in the western world....the body is loaded up with broken fat molecules that it doesn't know what to do with. To be honest, it's not entirely clear why royal jelly is able to do this, but it's suspected a big reason is the presence of a compound called 10-HDA, which has been shown to inhibit lipid peroxidation in clinical trials. A decrease in lipid peroxidation allows the body to metabolize more fat, which has a cascade of health benefits, including lower se...