Just in time for the cold season, another scientific review validating the health benefits of bee products. Besides protecting oneself from the changing seasons, it's clear that taking honey and propolis (and other bee products) has a synergistic effect to aid even more severe chronic conditions such as allergies and autoimmune diseases...
Immunological
Properties of Bee Products
Pot-Honey 2013, pp
513-523
Abstract:
Honey, bee
pollen, propolis and royal jelly are among the main products obtained from
bees. They contain many compounds that may fight disease, making them useful in
medicine. Bee products act upon both innate and adaptive immune response. At
different levels, in the human innate response, these compounds suppress DNA
synthesis, decrease proinflammatory cytokine synthesis (IL-2, IL-12 and IL-4),
inactivate both the classical and alternative complement pathway, and decrease
superoxide anion production in rabbit neutrophils.
In adaptive immune response,
propolis and honey induce the increase of antibody production by plasma cells,
enhance the secretion of TGF-β after the activation of T regulatory cells, and
inhibit Con A-stimulated cell proliferation in mice. The honey bee products act
mainly through anti-inflammatory action which can ameliorate allergic and
autoimmune diseases where inflammation plays an important role.
Based on this
knowledge, clinical studies to evaluate such products could be designed to
obtain a new class of drugs, with application to allergies and autoimmune
disease treatment.
Within this
Chapter:
Introduction
Honey Bee
Products and Innate Immune Response
Action
Mechanisms of Bee Products in the Adaptive Immune Response
Future
Perspectives to Use Honey Bee Products in Treatment of Immune Diseases
Conclusions
References
References
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