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Royal Jelly for Menopausal Symptoms, including Anxiety

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Hurdity:

--- Quote from: Saffy on January 31, 2019, 01:01:50 AM ---Not dismissing this but...call me a cynic  ;D:

Conflicts of Interest

Takashi Asama, Hidenori Matsuzaki, Shinobu Fukushima, Tomoki Tatefuji, and Ken Hashimoto are employees of Yamada Bee Company, Inc. Takashi Takeda received a medical advisory fee from Yamada Bee Company, Inc.

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 ;D

Actually in any case, I certainly wouldn't go rushing out and buying this product on the basis of that very limited study anyway! The statistics are too simplistic, the sample size too small and the length of time too short. Not only that the key menopausal symptoms of flushes and sweats were not reduced after 12 weeks.....there may well be some benefits of this for some general symptoms but it needs a lot more study!!

Hurdity x

Conolly:
Hello Saffy and Hurdity,

As Hurdity said on another thread 'In fact much research is funded by the medical/pharma companies otherwise it wouldn't get done so there is an inbuilt bias to the questions that are asked.' So I can't see any problem that the manufacturers are trying to gather evidence that their product has potential use for whatever they are interested in testing.

The important thing is to disclose their conflicts of interest and that's exactly what they've done, unlike some praised studies and doctor's websites whose author's haven't disclosed their sponsors (pharmaceutical companies).

Conolly X

Shadyglade:
Agree with you Conolly.

It's Royal Jelly, not a weird drug. Safe to try it and see, I would say.

CLKD:
A bit of a meander:

Honey is the only food stuff that cannot go off
Honey has for Centuries been used over wounds in order to promote healing - pity the NHS doesn't take it up again
Honey is good for gut upsets - Dad would give us a teaspoonful when we felt unwell to soothe from the inside out

Wikipedia:

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens.[1] It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of nurse bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony, regardless of sex or caste.[2]

When worker bees decide to make a new queen, usually because the old one is either weakening or dead, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This type of feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.[3]

Royal jelly is widely marketed as a dietary supplement. It is an alternative medicine that falls under the category of apitherapy. Both the European Food Safety Authority and United States Food and Drug Administration have concluded that the current evidence does not support the claim of health benefits, and have actively discouraged the sale and consumption of the jelly. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has taken legal action against companies that have used unfounded claims of health benefits to market royal jelly products. There have also been documented cases of allergic reactions, namely hives, asthma, and anaphylaxis, due to consumption of royal jelly.

I have however used locally produced honey in order to control allergic rhinitis.  But I have to remember to start by end of Feb. and it has to be really local.  I have two friends who keep bees, one 7 miles away - the honey from his bees made no difference.  But the honey made in the village really did work for me.  It stopped sneezing for months ...........

I would love to keep bees :-) as I enjoy watching their antics in our garden. Maybe have a chat with your local beekeeper?

AgathaC:
It will give me something new to buy in Holland and Barrett  :) (I have enough Starflower Oil for all members on the forum  ;D)

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