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Bee Pollen
Excerpt from "Conscious Eating"

By Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

"Let your food be your medicine.....let your medicine be your food."

Bee Pollen is a potent antiradiation food as well as a general health enhancer. Bee pollen helps to support the immune system and protects both red and white blood cells against their usual depletion from radiation. Bee pollen is extremely high in vitamins A,B,C,and E, nucleic acids, lecithin,cysteine and vital minerals such as selenium, calcium , magnesium, etc.

One study reported in "fighting radiation and Chemical Pollutants With Foods, Herbs and Vitamins," conducted by Dr. Peter Hernuss at the University of Vienna's Womans Clinic, showed that Bee Pollen significantly reduced the usual side effects of both radium and cobalt-60 radiotherapy in 25 women treated for inoperable uterine cancer. As compared to the women who did not receive Bee Pollen, the Bee Pollen women had half as much nausea, 80% less loss of appetite, 50% less sleep, urinary, and rectal disorders, and 30% less general malaise and weakness after the treatment.

Bee Pollen is much more than simply a radiation protection food. It is a food that I recommend to take regularly as part of the conscious eaters approach whether or not you are concerned with radiation protection. BEE POLLEN IS THE PROCREATIVE LIFE FORCE OF THE PLANT WORLD.

"Pollen is the finest food and best medicine ever discovered. Pollen contains the richest source yet revealed of vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, hormones, enzymes and fats. Pollen also contain other substances that defy identification."

This is the opinion of Dr. G. J. Binding, M.B.E.,F.R.H.S., a British scientist, author and world famous expert on nutrition. Dr. Binding feels that the honeybee pollen has a powerful life force that:

"...not only builds up strength and energy in the tired body, but acts as a tonic. People have more vigor, vitality, and incresed resistence to infection.......Honeybee pollen has shown itself to be a complete nourishment in every sense of the word."

The high life force in the pollen comes from the million of living plant forces contained in the pollen. Each pollen granule contains four million pollen grains. One teaspoon contains two and one half billion to ten billion pollen grains. Each one of these grains is the male semen, seed or germ cell of the plant kingdom. Every pollen grain has the power to fertilize and create a fruit , grain, vegetable, flower or a tree. POLLEN IS ULTIMATE BIOGENIC FOOD. It is filled with the life force of the entire plant kingdom.

The Bible mentions Bee Pollen 68 times. The Talmud, the Koran, ancient Chinese scriptures, and Roman and Greek civilizations, as well as the Russian and Slavic people have all praised Bee Pollen and honey as a source of rejeuvenation and health. Many Greek philosophers claimed that bee pollen held the secret to eternal youth!

Pollen is said to contain all the elements neccesary to sustain human life. The San Francisco Reasearch Foundation estimates that pollen has more than 5000 different enzymes and co-enzymes, which is more than any food in existence. The high amount of enzymes such as catalyse and amalyse and pectin splitting enyzmes make it an aid to digestion. Some research suggests that pollen is absorbed directly from the stomach into the bloodstream. Pollen is a source of vegetarian source of human-active B-12, most of the b vitamins, vitamins A, C, D, E, rutin, all the essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, linoleic acid, fats, complex carbohydrates, simple sugars, RNA, DNA, steroid hormone substances, a plant hormone similar to the human pituitary called gonadotropin, 15% lecitin, and many other unknown factors.

According to research by doctors from France, Italy and the USSR, pollen is the richest source of protein in nature. Gram for gram pollen contains an estimated 5-7 times more protein than meat eggs or cheese. The protein in pollen is in a predigested form and therefore is easy to assimilate. Pollen is also abundant in minerals and trace minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, manganese, potassium, copper, silicon, sulphur choline, titanium and sodium. These minerals are highly assimilable because they are bound organically from plant metabolism.

According to Dr. Airola, research in Russia and Sweden has found that Bee Pollen is both rejuevenating and life prolonging. Bee pollen improves general health, prevents disease, boosts the immune system, stimulates and rejeuvenateds the glandular system. M. Esperrois, M.D., of the French instiute of chemistry , concluded from his experiments that pollen contains potent antibiotics and also reverses the aging of the skin. Research reported by Dr. Airola has found that bee pollen is good for prostate difficulties, hemorroids, asthma, allergies, digestive disorders, curing intestinal putrefaction, chronic bronchitis, multiple sclerosis, gastric ulcers,,arthritis , hayfever, and posses anti-aging properties. According to Dr. Alain Caillais, in "Le Pollen," 35 grams of pollen a day would satisfy the total nutritional needs of the average person. That is about three and one half tablespoons per day. Dr. Airola feels that it fullfills Hippocrates requirement of the ideal food:

"Let your food be your medicine.....let your medicine be your food"

Pollen is harvested by the female worker bee when she brushes up against anthers of the flower. The pollen sticks to her legs. When she returns to the hive, she passes through a screan that rubs off some of the pollen pellets.

Depending on ones's health, taste and sensitivities, a good supplemental amount is one teaspoon to one tablespoon a day.

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