Good Bee Pollen Storage For The Best Bee Pollen Dosage
Have you ever wondered how bees store their pollen or are you wondering why you should care?
You should care because bee pollen storage can affect the quality of your supplement. Bee pollen is a very perishable product.
Bee pollen has been described as one of nature’s most perfect vitamin. Why you ask? Bee pollen contains 22 amino acids, 12 enzymes necessary for production and some 5000 trace elements necessary for the body’s overall function that’s why. Bee keepers regularly use bee pollen to boost their immune system and to relieve stress. Think of it as a natural multi-vitamin supplement. Some researchers have also found strong correlative evidence that bee pollen can help prevent some diseases by boosting the function of the immune system in both children and adults.
Of course the true benefits of bee pollen are only realized as long as it is pure and undegraded.
What does undegraded mean?
Well, think of bee pollen as any other regular food with an expiration date. The potency and quality of any product degrades over time. Along with the degradation and spoilage goes the potency and beneficial effects of the product. Bee pollen also adheres to these basic facts and can degrade easily for many reasons. Typically, bee pollen only lasts a few days after harvesting. Heat, humidity and ironically the enzymes in the bee pollen itself contribute to this degradation.
Even storage in a carefully regulated environment only guarantees that bee pollen will last for longer than a week. During transportation, the ups and downs in temperature can quickly ruin bee pollen as the enzymes go to work. With all these problems, it is easy to see that bee pollen is very rare especially in those regions where bee farms are far and few.
With very few options, nutraceutical companies began searching for ways to preserve bee pollen. Amazingly, they discovered how to store bee pollen for weeks, months and even years!
How did they manage to achieve this? They simply looked at how bees naturally store bee pollen. Bees can keep bee pollen fresh for extended periods of time – without any refrigeration, preservatives or even a chemical process.
Through this observation researchers determined that bees place the bee pollen in their hives in capsules or little cubicles and encase them in the waxy and oily substance they produce. This substance is commonly known as royal jelly. This acts as both a protective layer and a chemical stabilizer for the compounds found in bee pollen. This does not only preserve the nutrients in the bee pollen but enzymes in royal jelly actually act as catalysts for the formation of new compounds in the bee pollen.
One of those compounds is vitamin K. Vitamin K helps with a number of functions in the body including gastro intestinal balance and clotting abilities of the blood.
The secret to how bees protect bee pollen is they encase them in a gelatin capsule. This gelatinized capsule is the reason why bee pollen supplements stay so fresh.
Our recommendation for the freshest, most potent bee pollen dosage can be found here.
