[reverett123]

teresaxtu mentioned a few months ago an old man in her village who was doing well with PD after many years. He attributed it to his consumption of royal jelly from his bee hives. I found that there was actually some research that backed him up. I filed it in my "to follow up" pile.

Yesterday, as part of a semi-desperate attempt to get over some high stress that had literally knocked my feet out from under me, I started it for a trial.

I am quite surprised. It actually seems to work, at least so far. I noticed a lift within a few hours and today (Day 2) has been the best in at least a month! Not only have some serious "Offs" disappeared but tomorrow I am going to cautiosly adjust my medication schedule.

I have talked to one PWP who has been trying it too with similar results. Has anyone else had any experience with it?

<NOTE- If you should decide to try it, be aware of possible allergies even fatal ones. Rare but known. Same as most medicines.>

Some research:

1: Hashimoto M, Kanda M, Ikeno K, Hayashi Y, Nakamura T, Ogawa Y, Fukumitsu H,
Nomoto H, Furukawa S.
Oral administration of royal jelly facilitates mRNA expression of glial cell
line-derived neurotrophic factor and neurofilament H in the hippocampus of the
adult mouse brain.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2005 Apr;69(4):800-5.
PMID: 15849420 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2: Kohno K, Okamoto I, Sano O, Arai N, Iwaki K, Ikeda M, Kurimoto M.
Royal jelly inhibits the production of proinflammatory cytokines by activated
macrophages.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2004 Jan;68(1):138-45.
PMID: 14745176 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3: Kamakura M, Mitani N, Fukuda T, Fukushima M.
Antifatigue effect of fresh royal jelly in mice.
J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2001 Dec;47(6):394-401.
PMID: 11922114 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4: HOJA S, VITTEK J.
Effect of royal jelly on regeneration.
Folia Biol (Praha). 1963 Jun;9:230-2. No abstract available.
PMID: 13961242 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]