Bee Pollen and Royal Jelly to help with infertility

by Mia
(California)

I've been reading on the internet that bee pollen and royal jelly together can help with infertility. My husband and I have been through failed IVF's and want to try to conceive naturally. I heard it might help with overall egg quality.

Angela's Response:

Great question Mia. While royal jelly and bee pollen haven't been studied by medical science for increasing fertility, there have been animal studies showing that rj can indeed increase pregnancy rates. I have listed two studies below. I can offer my experience dealing with clients and that has been that royal jelly and bee pollen do have a strong affinity for balancing/improving hormones. Royal jelly is known in the holistic world as a sexual tonic and used for treatment of impotence, infertility, and significantly increasing leutinizing hormone levels. If you do decide to try it, give this combination time to work. It will not work overnight - some re-balancing will need to take place. I have heard of people getting pregnant within weeks of taking royal jelly and I have also heard of it taking months, so be patient and let your body heal.

Royal Jelly Improves Pregnancy Rates

An experiment was conducted at the Jordan University of Science and Technology to determine whether natural royal jelly (RJ) paste administered orally or intramuscularly in conjunction with progesterone cream is associated with improved reproductive responses in ewes.


Thirty 3 - 6 year old ewes were randomly allocated into three (RJ-capsule, RJC; RJ-injection, RJI and control, CON) groups of 10 ewes each. They were then bred with male ewes and tested to determine ovulation times as well as pregnancy rates.

The scientists concluded that the results demonstrated both Royal Jelly treatments in conjunction with exogenous progesterone improved pregnancy rates.

While this study was done on animals, it does support the large amount of anecdotal evidence regarding the hormonal balancing properties of royal jelly.

Increase Sperm Count and Testosterone with Royal Jelly

This study didn't surprise me one bit since I've had so many of our clients tell me about the hormone balancing properties of royal jelly. But having more scientific proof is never a bad thing so here are the details.

Adult male rats who were given royal jelly experienced a significant increase in the weight of their testis and sperm counts as well as testosterone levels. They also experienced an increase in the percentage of live sperm while reducing the percentage of abnormal sperm.

The scientists went on to say that "Royal jelly is known as a sexual tonic and used for treatment of impotence, infertility, and significantly increase leutinizing hormone levels. This effect could be attributed to the central effect of royal jelly."