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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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Way it tasted.
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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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and you may already know.
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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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other ingredient. I want to say it's olive oil. And
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this is something I keep in a little glass bottle
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an empty spice jar next to my stove, and I
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will say this, I've used it a few times and
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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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So in our.
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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.