Royal jelly and human health

For medicinal and preventive purposes, royal jelly has been used since ancient times. Royal jelly is a highly nutritious substance, a secret produced from bee bread by the glands of nurse bees. They feed bees-nurses their future offspring - larvae and drones. But the most important purpose of royal jelly is to feed the future uterus.

This bee product is quite complex in composition. It is rich in proteins - up to 18%, from 9 to 10% carbohydrates, up to 5.5% fats and just over 1% mineral salts. Royal jelly, which the nurse bees feed the larvae on the first day of their development, differs from the milk consumed by older larvae. Industrial preparation of royal jelly is impossible, since it is the least “stable” of all beekeeping products during storage. Its composition is seriously influenced by both individual genetic and racial differences in bee colonies and the climatic conditions of their habitat.

Royal jelly contains large quantities of water, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins and vitamins. It contains various organic acids - nucleic, amino acids (21), carboxylic acids, including all irreplaceable ones. The composition of royal jelly contains 110 different compounds and ash elements. Undifferentiated substances were found in royal jelly. Royal jelly is identical in sugar composition to nectar and honey. Of the mineral components, it contains: K, Ca, Na, Mn, Zn, Fe, Cu, etc. with a huge predominance of K.

Royal jelly antioxidant properties are significantly expressed. Due to the decrease in lipid peroxidation, royal jelly has a hypolytic effect, leads to the normalization of the lipid composition of the blood, which significantly reduces the risk of developing hypertension, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and also stroke. Royal jelly promotes the expansion of small blood vessels in the tissues of organs and thereby restores normal blood microcirculation in the body, and most importantly in the myocardium.

Royal jelly is, of course, wonderful adaptogen... It successfully increases resistance to mental and physical stress on the body. Royal jelly, influencing the endocrine glands - the pituitary gland - the adrenal glands and the sex glands, increases the body's resistance to the adverse effects of the surrounding nature in ecologically polluted areas. Royal jelly has an active antimicrobial, regenerating and modeling effect on the human immune system.

Royal jelly, by normalizing metabolic processes in the body, increases efficiency and vitality, improves human vision. The use of preparations containing royal jelly in ophthalmology gives a significant chance for a speedy recovery from a number of severe eye diseases. This substance in people with high blood pressure, lowered it. And in patients with hypotension, the pressure increased to normal. Therefore, we can talk about the successful use of royal jelly in gerontology.

Royal jelly increases enzymatic activity in the human body, increases tissue trophism, improves cell nutrition and vascular tone. It normalizes hormonal activity and accelerates the normal development of the body. It successfully promotes the rapid removal of angiospasm, restores the disturbed nervous system.Today, royal jelly is actively used in all cases of convalescence after severe infectious and therapeutic diseases, as well as in the postoperative period for the prevention and treatment of various postoperative complications, when exposed to X-rays or gamma rays.

However, one should not forget that royal jelly, like other beekeeping products, may be intolerant in the form of an allergic reaction. Therefore, you should take royal jelly and preparations containing royal jelly. under medical supervision.

Teplova T.G.