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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I see lots of competing discussion on whether this is a bs wives tale or not.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its enough of an excuse to eat more delicious honey though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh so you just want everyone to be sticky????

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd prefer everyone be slippery but sticky is acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hypothesis is that you are eating all of the flower allergens that are causing your allergies. The body usually doesn't react to things you eat so by consuming those allergens your body does have an immune response since it's part of food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is a fine point because I have oral allergy syndrome, which is my body violently reacting to bananas because of my ragweed allergy and my immune system being dumb as hell.

But also o do react less to flower pollen with a spoon of local honey a day so maybe it's just a big weird world we live in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honey is better for you than refined sugar.

Also, getting local honey helps limit your carbon footprint and helps out your region economically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There really aren't a lot of good studies/experiments done.

So we're left with anecdotes. While that's not totally worthless, it also can't be conclusive.