Manuka Honey - Benefits??
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I got stung by a bee the other day.
He charged me a tenner for a jar of this and it didn't help at all
He charged me a tenner for a jar of this and it didn't help at all
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There's always one smart *** isn't there! I didn't say I knew all the answers, I said I knew (regular) honey helped in aid of weight loss. I was asking the health benefits of (manuka) honey.
So please read and understand the question before jumping in with your stupid comments. With regards to your quip about eating less cakes and walking more. When I said I wanted to lose a little weight, I ment a few lbs. I'm a perfectly healthy weight, I am training for a judo competition and trying to make a certain weight category.
Everyones a hard man behind their keyboard these days. ****No personal attacks****
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It's all this honey. It increases your immune system and helps fight off bacterial infections. Unfortunately it lowers tolerance levels for (.)(.)'s
A price I'll have to pay unfortunately!
I'm off out for this evening. You have fun now on the forums this fine Saturday night.
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I'm afraid the only inaccuracy there is what you have written.
Couldn't agree more.
Grade 5 is for general well being, though it heals wounds really well. Even some hospitals are now using it. The higher the grade you go the greater the active content. It is particularly used for topical application when you reach grade 20+.
OK, what is the "active content"? Name? Formula? Otherwise I also call BS: this is just one step on from the equally quack Royal Jelly. For wound treatment, it works by osmosis - any sterile honey will do the job.
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There's no call for rudeness. Why don't you post the studies (if they really exist). And why are you creating a thread asking people what the benefits are, when you act as though you are a honey authority and slate everyone who dares speak out against your precious honey?
Secondly sugar in honey is the same as sugar in chocolate, glucose and fructose. Refined just means purified, it's the same natural chemical.
It's Methylglyoxal.
www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf7/K072956.pdf
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people in selling weight loss products to fatties by saying you can eat this sweet sugary crap and lose weight without any effort shocker.
The paper I'd read was published last year in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, regarding the effects it has against Staphylococcus aureus, the short version is it works well.
There's more recent research showing it has the ability to kill MRSA due to the interaction with a specific protein (Fabl). Also there is more research, into the effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Needless to say it does work and it's of great interest. No doubt the active ingredients will be purified and patented, but at the moment it's the best these researchers can work with.
Don't knock their work, if it's funded and at university level in the UK then it's respectable research.
e: I'm usually the first to dive in to finding evidence against "health food/alternative medicine" because the majority of it is utter balls, however the research being carried out is of a high quality and not anecdotal, eventually this will make its way from alternative medicine to conventional medicine.
There's more recent research showing it has the ability to kill MRSA due to the interaction with a specific protein (Fabl). Also there is more research, into the effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Needless to say it does work and it's of great interest. No doubt the active ingredients will be purified and patented, but at the moment it's the best these researchers can work with.
Don't knock their work, if it's funded and at university level in the UK then it's respectable research.
e: I'm usually the first to dive in to finding evidence against "health food/alternative medicine" because the majority of it is utter balls, however the research being carried out is of a high quality and not anecdotal, eventually this will make its way from alternative medicine to conventional medicine.
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How would that make eating it any good? It's not going to magically jump from your mouth to the site of infection
Mentioned in my previous post, "ingesting does diddly squat"
It's possible the idea was that antibiotics are (typically) taken orally for an infection, so ingesting the honey would work in a similar way but I believe it needs to be applied directly to the site of infection as the active molecule isn't your typical antibiotic.
Mentioned in my previous post, "ingesting does diddly squat"
It's possible the idea was that antibiotics are (typically) taken orally for an infection, so ingesting the honey would work in a similar way but I believe it needs to be applied directly to the site of infection as the active molecule isn't your typical antibiotic.
so in reality you'd be much better off using the alcohol gel hand washes that don't leave a residue than slathering yourself in honey
Mentioned in my previous post, "ingesting does diddly squat"
It's possible the idea was that antibiotics are (typically) taken orally for an infection, so ingesting the honey would work in a similar way but I believe it needs to be applied directly to the site of infection as the active molecule isn't your typical antibiotic.
Whaaaaaat, all the way back on the first page? Effort
Not that I'm clued up on the actual specific nitty gritty here, but I imagine the idea of ingesting it and it working as a bit like the idea that ingesting a caulimovirus 35 promoter will give you cancer
Regular honey has anti bacterial properties and has been used on wounds for centuries, also has a use for soothing sore throats - whats so special about this 'Manuka' honey?
Also we've since developed antiseptics that are a tad more practical than honey.