Hello Health Champions. Today we’re going to talk about what would happen if you started eating honey every day for 30 days and honey is very very popular for starters it’s part of our language we talk about the land of milk and honey we talk about things being as sweet as honey and we say hey come here honey and honey has been around for a very long time it’s part of our culture and it goes back thousands of years it used to be known as the food of the Gods honey was also the
original sweetener because our ancestors didn’t have anything else that was really sweet besides honey they used to have some occasional fruit but honey was way way sweeter than that and when I say ancestors I’m going to qualify that because people leave comments so with ancestor I’m not talking about your grandpa I’m talking about going back tens of thousands of years pre historic humans who were hunters and gatherers they did not have any other sweetener and the other thing about honey
is that it’s the first processed sweetener it’s the first processed food really and even though it is completely natural in the sense that we find it in nature and we don’t do anything with it the bees have processed honey so we start out with a flower and flower nectar and then the bee comes to visit that and sucks up the flower nectar and then they have enzymes that break down that nectar into simple sugars and then they concentrate it and evaporate it and it turns into honey and these
little bees they really deserve some respect they work like nobody else as a result in our language again we have the word worker be or busy be to denote someone who works very hard all the time and did you know that in order to make just one pound of honey which is 454 grams it takes over two million flowers so the bees have to make two million trips to gather nectar to make even just one pound of honey and in the process of gathering all that nectar they travel the equivalent of more
than once around the world not only that but you should think about this when you enjoy that little jar of honey that a single Bee makes less than one gram of honey in a lifetime but this goes Way Beyond just honey because we actually depend on bees for our survival they pollinate over 130 different fruits and vegetables and different plants and even if you don’t eat vegetables or fruits if you’re a carnivore or you don’t just eat processed food you need need to realize that
the thing you’re eating might depend on the bees to pollinate their food but even just for humans what they pollinate represents about one3 of the food that we eat so overall we have this idea of honey as being Liquid Gold it’s very precious it’s a very very good thing but then on the other hand with Rising awareness we now know that sugar is really really bad so how does that fit together if honey is good but it’s mostly sugar how can that be so these are some of the things that we’re
going to sort out in this article and I’m going to base a lot of this on a article I saw because it was very representative of a lot of the claims about honey that you see so we’re going to figure out which ones are true and which ones are false and which ones kind of maybe somewhere in between so I’m going to show you some screen captures along the way here to show you that I didn’t actually make this up that someone else published this and some of these may seem crazy but they’re
very representative of what people believe and what’s being written out there so first thing they said in this article was that everything in their article was unbiased fact checked and reviewed by qualified health professional so that makes you feel really good up front like very very reassuring that this has to be topnotch stuff so let’s take a look so one of the claims was that if you eat honey you will sleep better and then again on their slide they said eating honey right before bed May spike your insulin levels and I’m like that can’t be good because if you watch this
channel you know that that’s not something we’re going for but here they mention it as a positive and they say that this increased insulin can stimulate tryptophan which will stimulate serotonin which turns into melatonin and therefore would help you sleep but it doesn’t work like this trust me if you create even a smidgen of a benefit which is pretty far reached because if you increase insulin you also bind up some of the tryptophan so it’s less available but even if it did work you do not want to try to create health benefits by increasing insulin by creating
insulin spikes because even if this worked you would create a dozen bad effects along the way so please don’t do this and the next claim was that if you eat honey you will learn faster and be more relaxed and the mechanism proposed for this was that the glucose in Honey is quickly absorbed a