WARNING!
May be harmful to your health
Bee pollen USED TO BE a beneficial supplement…
Unfortunately the prolific use of glyphosate (and other pesticides and insecticides) is not only killing bees, but has also changed the integrity of the pollen that you consume as a supplement—and may now actually be detrimental to your health!
Due to the fact the bee pollen industry is highly lucrative, this potential safety issue is conveniently omitted from the advertising and marketing materials of all suppliers of pollen supplements, despite it being an issue of which they are all aware—shame on them!
Secondly, whilst the use of these dangerous chemicals is global, it is more widely used in China, so be EXTREMELY cautious if your pollen supplier imports theirs from here as the contamination levels may be even higher!
“…bee pollen may also be harmful to your wealth…”
Ignore the hype from so-called ‘health’ companies selling pollen as most of them are just marketing organisations selling the cheapest pollen they can get—at greatly inflated prices. In most cases the bee pollen is probably imported from China.
The con-cept of pricing products higher to imply that a product is a better quality is a long-used psycholgical marketing tactic to increase profits—don’t be fooled by it!
Many of these companies are also guilty of being selective with the truth in their claims (as covered above), and will often also bombard you with:- email offers, SMS text messages, or various other cross-sell ‘opportunities‘.
Some companies also try to encourage you (with discount incentives) to provide positive feedback to their Google profiles—this is a tactic used to push their bad reviews further down the page in the hope people won’t see them!
There are numerous cases in the public domain about dishonest companies that have employed these corrupt practices. Search: dodgy bee pollen companies for some documented examples…
Here are links to some of the relevant studies and research we have found that confirm bee pollen may not be the elixir of life that many of it’s proponents claim:
- bee pollen contamination (Google Search)
- Science Direct Research Paper (see Section 6: Conclusions for a summary of the paper).
- Environmental Organisation Report
- Global Pesicide Use Chart
- Bee Aware (Information hub for beekeepers)
- Scientific Report (Nature.com)
Here are a few more Google search terms to consider:
We hope you have found our information beneficial, and that given the facts, you will now reconsider taking bee pollen as a supplement.
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