Nov. 17, 2025

The Honey Episode: Nature’s Medicine Revealed

The Honey Episode: Nature’s Medicine Revealed

Raw, unfiltered honey is one of God’s most miraculous natural medicines — and most people have never experienced its full healing potential.In this one-hour episode of Chasing Eden: Rediscovering Your Body’s Divine Design, we explore the powerful world of honey: how bees create it, why it varies dramatically from region to region, the many forms of honey from around the world, and how people have used it for healing for thousands of years.You’ll learn how honey supports the immune system, gut health, sleep, hormones, wound healing, skin health, and energy — and why experts like Dr. Barbara O’Neill, Gary Brecka, Dave Asprey, Dr. Pompa, and Dr. Axe are urging people to bring raw honey back into daily life.We also reveal the shocking truth about fake honey in the marketplace, how to detect it, and how to source pure, medicinal-grade honey you can trust. Plus: practical, simple ways to support healthy bees in your region and help safeguard the future of this precious gift from creation.Sweet, ancient, healing, and designed with purpose — honey might be one of the most important natural foods you can bring back into your home.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome back to Chasing Eden, where we rediscover our body's

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divine design. I'm your host, Carolyn Thompson, and today we

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are stepping into one of the most ancient, beautiful and

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medicinal gifts from God's creation. Raw unfiltered honey, not the

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syrupy fake stuff on the grocery shelf, but true honey,

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the kind that has nourished civilizations, healed the sick, restored

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the gut, fueled warriors, preserved medicines, and been used as

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a natural skincare for thousands of years. Today we're going

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to explore the healing science behind real honey, How bees

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craft this miracle substance, the different flavors and medicinal profiles

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of honey from around the world, Ways to support healthy

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beelife in your own region, how honey can heal externally

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and internally, as well as some expert insights from doctor

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Barbara O'Neil, human biologist, Gary Brecca, biohacker, Dave Aspury, Doctor Pampa,

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doctor Axe and others, as well as the alarming problem

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of fake honey and how to make honey a sacred

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daily part of your wellness lifestyle. Settle in, breathe deeply

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and let's rediscover the sweetness of God's natural design.

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Coward.

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Honey is one of the only foods in the world

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that never spoils. Archaeologists found sealed pots of honey in

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Egyptian tombs more than three thousand years old, and it

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was still perfectly edible. Now that alone tells you something powerful.

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Honey was designed for longevity, resilience, and healing. Why does

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honey work well? Raw honey contains natural enzymes, antioxidants, propolis,

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be pollen, vitamins B one, B two, B three, B five,

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and B six, as well as amino acids, antibacterial compounds, prebiotics,

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and trace minerals. When honey is heated, filtered, and processed,

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which most grocery store honey is, these healing compounds are destroyed.

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Doctor Barbara O'Neil says this quote, honey is a medicine,

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but once you heat it, it becomes nothing more than sugar.

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Unquote.

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Human biologist Gary Breca often reminds people, quote, if you

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want to heal inflammation, support your immunity, and fuel your mitochondria,

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raw honey should be in your home unquote. How bees

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actually make honey and God's engineering at its finest well,

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bees collect nectar, store it in their quote honey's stomach unquote,

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break it down with natural enzymes, and deposit it into

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the hive. Other bees then fan it with their wings

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to evaporate moisture until it becomes the thick, nutrient rich

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substance we know as honey. A single bee will produce

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only one twelfth of a teaspoon in its entire lifetime,

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So every tablespoonful of honey is the collective life's work

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of hundreds of bees. Now that is something sacred. Stay

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with us. After the break, we'll explore the different types

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of honey from around the world and why each one

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tastes and heals differently. Now, honey is not a single food,

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It's a map of the land where the bees live.

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Every region, every flower, every climate creates a unique honey profile,

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such as Manuka honey from New Zealand. It's rich, earthy,

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and deeply medicinal. It contains powerful compounds like MgO, also

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known as methyl glyoxal. This kills bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

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It's often used for gut healing, wound healing, staff infections,

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and immune support. Minuka honey can be in some people's

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eyes very expensive. I personally like to go purchase it

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at places like home Goods or Marshals or what is

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that other place, Tjmax.

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They have these shelves.

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Of different things that you can buy, like different coffees

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from around the world and some fun cookies and teas,

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and oftentimes they will have different types of honey. Luckily,

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most of the time when I go, they have Manuka honey.

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I like to keep Manuka honey in my cupboard for

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our immune support in our home. And not too long ago,

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Eric and I both had a cold and we were

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needing to take something, but we didn't have any cough

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medicine in the house. We took the Manuka honey and

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to my surprise, it really helped. We were coughing, we

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couldn't get to sleep, our throats were itchy, and we

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both took a teaspoon of Manuka honey and we were

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able to go to bed and.

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Get some rest.

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So you would be surprised at actually, when you actually

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apply these methods and start using natural things at it

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will increase your confidence in natural healing. Because most of

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us were raised to have faith in the medical industry

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as far as Western medicine is concerned what we can

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go purchase at Walgreens or Target, thinking that this is

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the only way to healing or the only way to

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relief as far as pain relief and discomfort. But if

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you start to give some of these remedies a chance,

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you would be very surprised at how well they that

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they work without the extra symptoms that oftentimes some of

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these lab created medicines cause in our bodies. So as

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far as other types of honey, Eastern Europe is known

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for Acacia honey, and this has a light floral type

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of fragrance or aroma and is slow to crystallize.

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So that's good to know.

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If you are one of those people that puts it

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away in your cupboard and forgets about it, and then

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you come back and it's crystallized and you're frustrated, well

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maybe you might want to think about purchasing some Acacia

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honey from Eastern Europe. This particular honey is good for

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digestive health, blood sugar balance, and it gives you a

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little bit of energy. There's another type of honey from

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Russia and the northern United States called buckwheat honey. It's

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dark and molasses like but very high in antioxidants. It's

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often called nature's cough syrup. So when it comes to

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maybe perhaps having something natural in your cabinet as an

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alternative to cough syrup, keeping in mind that honey never spoils,

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you might want to think about purchasing some buckwheat honey

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and keeping it in your medicine cabinet, even it doesn't

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necessarily have to be in your pantry. As far as

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a type of honey they call honey, the impression I

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get from what I researched was that this doesn't come

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from bees. It's called pine and forest honey from Greece

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and Turkey. It's not floral. It's made from tree sap,

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but it's included because it is loaded with minerals and

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known for its deep anti inflammatory power. One of the

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most noted honeys in the ancient times comes from Yemen

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and it's called sitter honey. It's spelled like sid r,

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one of the most luxurious honeys in the world. Ancient

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kings ate it as a tonic for strength, fertility, and vitality. Now,

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that would be an interesting one to research and maybe

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go try to get a hold of just to try it,

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but I'm predicting it's probably very expensive. Now we can

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get local wild flower honey pretty much anywhere. Each region

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has its own flavor fingerprint, from the lavender fields in

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France to the orange blossoms in Florida to the mesquite

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honeys in Texas and the clover fields across the Midwest.

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Where the bee lives determines not just how the honey.

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Tastes, but also how it heals. And I have.

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Noticed a distinct flavor in the honey here where I

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live in the Tulsa area. We have a friend that's

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a beekeeper, and I, because I usually get I like

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to try different honeys from different places. I typically buy

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the New Zealand honey or I like the lavender huh

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money from France. So when I went and got some

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of this, I got some local honey from the friend

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our friend, and because I wanted to address some allergies,

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and I wasn't very happy with the.

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I was looking for that wonderful flavor that I was

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used to from other places, and our local honey, to me,

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just didn't have.

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A great taste.

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It's hard to explain, but it just I thought, oh this,

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this tastes to me like city honey. But it was

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our local honey and it was the one recommended for allergies,

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so we did purchase it.

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However, I do prefer.

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The floral honeys and the lavender honeys, So just because

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it's local doesn't necessarily mean it's going to taste great.

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It depends on the plants and the different things that

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you have in your area.

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But think about it. For medicinal purposes, that's something you

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might have to forego, is flavor.

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A lot of the some of the taste differences also

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result from your soil, your climate, and the different flowers

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and plants available to the bees. Because honey is a

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living signature.

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Of the land that you live in.

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Just like wines vary from region to region, so does honey.

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When we come back, we'll talk about how honey has

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healed people for thousands of years and the many ways

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you can use it internally and externally. Now, this is interesting.

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Did you know that honey is mentioned over six sixty

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times in the Bible. It's called a symbol of divine abundance.

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Ancient cultures used honey for burns, wounds, coughs, fever, digestion, energy, fertility,

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and longevity. Even today, hospitals use medical grade honey for

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wound care. Doctor Ax says this about honey. Quote raw

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honey is a natural antibiotic, anti inflammatory, and gut healer unquote.

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Biohacker Dave Asprey talks about honey's performance. Quote, A teaspoon

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of raw honey before bed stabilizes glucose, boosts recovery, and

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supports deep sleep. Doctor Pampa on honey's detoxing and immunity properties.

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He says this, quote, honey is one of God's most

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powerful anti microbial gifts unquote. Now, honey can heal the

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inside of the body. It's good for gut health because

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it feeds the good bacteria. It's also good for liver

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support because it helps to detox the pathways. Our immune

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system responds to honey because honey is anti viral and

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anti bacterial. Honey is good for your hormones. It supports

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your adrenal balance. It's great for sleep because it helps

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to stabilize your nighttime glucose levels. And as I said before,

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It's great for allergies.

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Local honey exposes you to small amounts of the pollen

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in your area, so honey can heal the outside of

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the via things like burns, cuts and scrapes, acne, eggzema, scars,

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dry skin, and fungal infections. In regard to burns, Doctor

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Ax on his website has a burn remedy that you

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can mix up at home. It includes honey. There is

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also lavender essential oil in it. I can't remember the

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an empty spice jar next to my stove, and I

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it works amazingly. It heals the burn very quickly, and

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it lifts the heat out of the burn, which really

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astounded me because I'll be honest, I'm a skeptic just

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like anybody else out there about natural remedies.

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I like to read about it.

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I'm interested in it, but I really want to see

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does it really work. So I was surprised when I

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discovered this remedy actually worked, and it worked better than

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any burn cream I've ever used. Also in regard to

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the skin, as far as honey is concerned. There are

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so many ways that you can use it for skincare.

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There are people that actually wash their face with honey.

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They make face masks with honey as well.

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One of my favorite.

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Ways to use honey when my skin is feeling dehydrated

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and dry is to grind up oatmeal into a powder

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and then mix some honey in there and spread that

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all over my face. And I will just leave that

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on for like thirty minutes and then take it off

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with the warm washcloth. And the difference is incredible. I mean,

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it's ridiculous. You would not believe it. It's just sitting

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right there in your cupboard. Most people have oatmeal and

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most people have honey. Although nowadays oatmeal is getting a

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bad rap if you haven't heard that yet, because it

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can call it has lectins in it, and the people

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who are anti lectin are really getting you know, they're

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turning on oatmeal and making a bunch of videos about it.

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I actually didn't eat oatmeal for like four or five months,

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and then recently I'm like, you know what, I'm going

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to have some oatmeal.

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I was okay. I didn't have any.

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Heartburn or any problems from the lectins in it, but

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you know, maybe moderation is key here. But in regard

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to oatmeal on the skin, in something you want to

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keep in your cabinet because it's a great It actually

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helps with wrinkal reduction, and mixing it with honey is

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a great mask. You can pretty much avoid buying all

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of those expensive masks that you see and when you

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see if you were to use this, the the honey

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oatmeal mask, you would probably not ever have to buy

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another moisturizing mask again, to be honest, because it's it's

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a pretty incredible remedy for dry skin. Honey draws moisture

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in kills bacteria and reduces inflammation. It's like a god's

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first aid kit. Honestly, it's fantastic.

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Final segment, we'll talk about fake honey, how to avoid it,

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and how to bring honey into your daily life, plus

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how you can support healthy bee life right where you live.

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Fake honey is a shocking problem. You wouldn't believe this,

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but over forty percent of the honey sold in the

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United States has been found to be diluted, pasteurized, filtered,

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or mixed with corn syrup. Some of the imported brands

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of honey are one hundred percent fake. If your honey

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pores like syrup, stays perfectly clear, never crystallizes, is extremely cheap,

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it is almost certainly not real honey. So here's how

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to find real honey. Buy local, buy from a beekeeper.

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Look for raw and unfiltered on the label. Avoid honey

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in the plastic bear containers. Look for crystallization, which is

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a sign of purity.

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Smell it.

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Real honey always has an aroma. You can use some

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simple purity tests at home, and I've seen some people

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on Instagram and on YouTube actually demonstrating these. So if

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I'm about to describe three different tests to you, if

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you get a little confused or flustered by it, just

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go check out the check out social media because there

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are people showing you all over how to tell if

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your honey's real. So the first test is the water test.

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Real honey sinks and fake honey dissolves quickly. Then we

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have the thumb test. Real honey stays thick, but fake

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honey runs. There's also the heat test. Real honey burns slowly,

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but fake honey bubbles. Now I know there's some other

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purity tests that you can do at home. Like I said,

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you probably want to just do a social media search.

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Instagram's got videos, YouTube has videos, and TikTok has videos

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as well. So how do you use honey in your

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daily life for your benefit, for yourself, for your health benefits.

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Here are some simple expert way ways that experts recommend

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incorporating honey into your health routine. This one's pretty simple

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and easy and obvious. Your mourning immune tea. Now, if

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you're like me and you like to make like an

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immunity tea a couple times a week with warm water

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and lemon, I like to add ginger also to my tea,

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and I do like to add turmeric. You can add

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raw honey to your mourning warm immunity to concoction. You

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can add it to any type of tea. Now here's

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the thing here with this. I've heard people say, you know,

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what is the point of buying raw honey and then

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putting it in really hot tea? And that is why

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you probably don't want to put boiling water on a

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tea bag in the dump raw honey into it. And

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that's why you kind of create your own immune tea

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by just simply using warm water, lemon, ginger, and then throwing.

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Some honey in there.

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Now you have your nice little tasty, flavorful warm drink,

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and it's a type of honey tea, but you're not

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using the super duper hot tea and then rooting the

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properties of the raw honey. You can also use it

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as bedtime sleep support. As we talked about earlier. A

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teaspoon of raw honey thirty minutes before bed will stabilize

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your glucose and the triggers it triggers your deep sleep hormones.

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As far as working out, people will take a pre

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workout energy teaspoon of raw honey. It's great for clean,

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quick burning fuel. We talked about skincare. You can use

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it as a face mask, a spot treatment if you

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have dry patches of eczema, a wound healer, and burn releaf.

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And as far as burn relief is concerned, you could

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just use just the raw honey on the burn, or

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you can go a step farther and you can go

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to doctor Ax's website and you could whip up some

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of his burn remedy. It just takes a couple of minutes.

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stove or in your first aid kit and then it's

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handy whenever you need it. Honey also is great for

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your brain and your mood support. So think about how

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the natural glucose helps to nourish nourish your neurons, and

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it does it in a gentle and safe way. Think

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about supporting healthy bees in your region. Healthy honey comes

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from healthy bees. So here's what you can do locally.

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Plant be friendly flowers like lavender, clover, wildflowers, mint, rosemary,

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and sunflowers. Avoid using pesticides in your yard. Now, your

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yard really affects your because whatever they consume in your yard,

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whatever flowers they decide to go land on and pollinate,

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they're going to be exposed to pesticides. So think about

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using maybe a natural alternative in our yard. This is

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really the first time we've ever, never, ever used any

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pesticides in our yard. In the past, we have rented,

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so we've had gardeners come and they spray our yards

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and I absolutely hated it. And then when we owned

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I was ignorant back then in the past when we

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owned a home and I didn't know, I really didn't

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know what was happening to the ecosystem in my backyard.

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do now have companies who have natural pesticides to spray

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your yard with, And I don't remember the name of

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there's one in particular that doctor Pampa recommends. I'll try

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to on chasing eden Net post the link to that

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particular company. When I find it, i'll go hunt it

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down again. But this is something you might not want

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to ignore because it also pesticides also affect the quality

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of the soil in your backyard. And because we don't

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use pesticides in our backyard, it's full of worms. We

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have worms in our soil. We've got butterflies all over,

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we have birds, we have squirrels, we have bunny rabbits.

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for the wildlife in our backyard.

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We don't have an hoa, so we can grow whatever

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wildflowers and stuff we want back.

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areas that we really enjoy.

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Flowering weeds that grow back there that are actually they

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have health benefits. We started calling these particular plants weeds

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years ago without realizing that somewhere in the past people

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were actually harvesting these quote unquote horrible weeds right and

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turning them into different teas and different types of health

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remedies as well. Another way that you can support your

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bees is by providing a shallow water source, because bees

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need water, especially in the summertime, during the hot summer months. Again,

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we talked about supporting your local bee keeper. Even if

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the even if the honey doesn't taste good locally, just

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think about it's good for your It's really really good

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for your allergies and stuff. So and also honestly, you

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don't you don't really taste any negative flavor notes when

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you put it into your food and stuff.

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It's just for me.

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I like to take a teaspoon of honey every now

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and then for health benefits, and I wasn't crazy about

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the taste of my local honey. So well, when you

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support your local beekeepers, you help to keep your bee

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populations near around you strong and the honey supply pure.

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Consider for yourself a backyard hive. Every one hive can

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pollinate up to three hundred thousand plants a day, so that.

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I'm actually finding out more and more that more and

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more people are choosing to become beekeepers.

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Honestly, it's not something that I would do.

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Willing to take that on and aren't worried about getting stung,

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I'm really really grateful to you. So here are some

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final reflections. Raw honey isn't just a food. It's a

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connection to creation, to the earth, to life. It's also

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a connection to the delicate partnership between bees, flowers and

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the one who designed them. But it's also medicinal, sacred,

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and deeply powerful. And when you choose real honey, you're

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choosing purity, healing, and natural wisdom. Thank you for joining

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me today on Chasing Eden as we continue rediscovering your

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body's divine design. If this episode blessed you, or inspired you,

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stay well, stay vibrant, and stay connected to God's beautiful

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design for your life.