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Friday, September 5, 2008

Question of the Day

Question of the Day: What is Royal Jelly?

Have you seen that Loreal has come out with Vive Pro with Royal Jelly shampoo & conditoner? What is Royal Jelly? Well, I will tell you:


Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of the larvae. It is secreted from the hypopharyngeal glands in the heads of young workers and used (among other substances) to feed all of the larvae in the colony, including those destined to become workers.

Royal jelly is produced by stimulating colonies with movable frame hives to produce queen bees. Royal jelly is collected from each individual queen cell when the queen larvae are about four days old.
Royal jelly has been reported as a possible immunomodulatory agent in Graves' disease. It has also been reported to stimulate the growth of glial cells and neural stem cells in the brain.



My thoughts: -Does getting royal jelly out of the hive harm the bees? -If it does, then companies shouldn't be able to put this jelly in anything since bees are going extinct

If you know anything about Royal Jelly, post it in the comments!