Royal jelly and type 1 diabetes

by Igor
(Slovenia)

Hello

I come from Slovenia and yesterday I bought royal jelly, which I hope will help me. I would like to advise me if this product is ok for diabetes-type 1 patient or not? Please advise me also, how to use it? Before I take insulin and before meal or after insulin and meal? Is enough 1 g per day or maybe more?

Angela's Comments:

First of all, I am not a doctor. I am a holistic nutritional consultant so I am not licensed nor qualified to give advice on medications such as insulin. I would highly recommend you work with a Naturopathic Physician while attempting to deal with your condition using natural means.

I can list you some of the studies around this topic and give you some feedback based on what I have seen with my clients and their blood sugar issues. Several studies suggest royal jelly has insulin like activity. But no one definitive study has been done in humans, particularly humans with Type I diabetes. I have feedback from diabetics who used royal jelly while taking insulin. They have been successful in lowering the amount of insulin they were using (and were also supervised by a ND) while doing so.

Studies show that royal jelly does have the ability to help control blood sugar. The exact mechanism by which it does this is not known. See the study I've reported on below. The study below used 20 grams of royal jelly which is a lot! To get the higher doses that it appears you'll need for diabetes, you'll need to use our Royal Jelly Concentrate 3X powder. Start with just a small dose (1/8 of a teaspoon) and work up to a teaspoon a day over a month. Work up to this dose very slowly and always monitor yourself for any type of allergy or 'weird' symptoms. I would suggest monitoring your blood sugar very carefully while beginning taking royal jelly and I'd also recommend letting your Doctor know that you are using supplements. It would be my guess that you'll need to lower your medication amounts over time as you introduce Royal Jelly into your system so be very cautious.

Here is the study:

Earlier studies have shown that royal jelly has insulin-like activity. A group of German doctors at the Justus-Liebig University Hospital in Germany had twenty volunteers undergo the standardized oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and afterwards a second OGTT after ingestion of 20 g of royal jelly.

The doctors found that after 2 hours, the serum sugar levels of the 20 volunteers were much lower after taking the 20 g of Royal Jelly than when they didn't take it.