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The Buzz about Bee Skincare Products
The newest natural anti-aging therapies all have the same thing in common: bees. Find out why the poison of the honeybee could be the newest natural beauty craze.
Some of the most potent ingredients in the beauty industry come from the beehive. You’ve probably heard about the healing benefits of honey or beeswax, but you may not have heard about the anti-aging properties of bee venom.
When a bee stings, they expel venom. Your skin reacts to the venom as an irritation. Accordingly, your skin increases circulation and stimulates production of collagen and elastin, which plumps and firms fine lines and wrinkles.
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/bee-beauty-products
Scientists believe the venom in bee stings can boost collagen, the chemical which keeps skin young and flexible
Scientists claim the venom, dubbed nature’s alternative to Botox, helps to prevent ageing by smoothing out wrinkles and stimulating collagen growth and cell renewal.
Face masks containing bee venom have been a celebrity fad for years available only in salons and spas.
Now the first skincare range containing it is to hit the high street after 12 years of research.
Dr Han, a researcher at South Korea’s National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has published research suggesting it may also boost the number of cells called keratinocytes which act as a barrier against environmental factors such as bacteria, water loss and sun damage.
Keratinocyte are cells in the top layer of the skin which are needed to keep us looking youthful but as we age skin cell numbers decrease leading to a reduction in skin elasticity and the formation of fine lines and wrinkles.
Purified Bee Venom has been proven to increase keratinocyte numbers, in turn improving skin elasticity.
‘Next best alternative to Botox – in a jar’
She said: I have done extensive research and clinical trials which prove that purified bee venom can help with collagen formation and prevent sun damage.
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THE BUZZ ON BEE VENOM THERAPY
Bee Venom therapy is a form of medicine people in Egypt, Greece and China have practiced for more than 5000 years. Bee venom therapy today is being used by a growing number of physicians, acupuncturists and everyday people embracing bee venom therapy as a treatment for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, shingles, tendonitis, gout, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, painful scars and burns and multiple sclerosis.
The idea of using bee venom isnt that far fetched considering how many drugs have been developed by insect and snake venoms. Still the mechanism by which bee venom heals you remains somewhat mysterious. Although numerous compounds play a part, researchers have identified 3 important ones: melittin, adolapin and aparmin. One hundred times stronger than cortisone, melittin turns off several pro-inflammatory genes in the cells. It also increases production of the body’s own corticosteroids. Meanwhile, adolapin triggers the release of pain blocking opiates and asparmin appears to enhance nerve conduction, dopamine production and motor activity. That may explain why bee venom helps people with MS, the asparmin may protect their nerve cells from damage. Most importantly the venom wakes up the immune cells and as your body rallies itself to heal the sting it heals your other ailments as well.
http://www.health4u.net.nz/beevenom.html
For centuries, honey, bee pollen, and bee venom have been used to treat a number of ailments that vary between chronic pains to skin conditions. Apitherapy, or the medical use of honeybee products that range from royal jelly to bee venom, was used by the ancient Egyptians as a homeopathic remedy for arthritis. Today, bee venom therapy, or bee sting therapy, has captured the attention of medical science as a potential homeopathic remedy for multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms.
Bee venom therapy (BVT), or apitherapy, uses the stings of live bees to relieve symptoms of MS such as pain, loss of coordination, and muscle weakness. Apitherapy researchers suggest that certain compounds in bee venom, namely melittin and adolapin, help reduce inflammation and pain, and that the combination of all the “ingredients” in bee venom somehow helps the body to release natural healing compounds in its own defense…
http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/tests-treatment/bee-sting-therapy-and-ms.htm
