Healing with Honey-Part 2: Fighting Cancer

To get to the honey, sometimes you have to "take one for the team." And, I've taken more than one for the team in harvesting honey. But it's worth it. According to a recent paper published by the National Library of Medicine, honeybees' venom shows "strong anti-cancer potential [from] crude bee venom and its main constituent, melittin...." Benefits also include "anti-arthricit, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial or neuroprotective properties."

That doesn't mean I'll go out of my way to get stung next time Katelyn and I harvest honey from our hives. 

But it does mean we now have dozens of confirmed reasons to let it flow.