Description
Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey's bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey's effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more.- Investigates the efficacy of honey in the management of a wide range of diseases and conditions- Explains the benefits of honey's key pleiotropic properties as antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and more- Highlights honey as a nutritional supplement to protect against certain metabolic diseases- Explores methods of sustainable honey production, harvesting, composition, and quality testing
Table of Contents
1. Understanding Honey Bioavailability2. Value Addition in Honey for enhancing its Bioavailability3. Pleiotropic Properties and Therapeutic Potential of Honey4. Herbal Honey, Uses and Future Perspectives5. Sustainable Apicultural Practices for Welfare of Mankind6. Honey as a Food Supplement7. Nutritional Importance of Honey8. Honey Based Formulations in Traditional Medical Systems9. Therapeutic Effect of Honey for Respiratory Infections10. Honey in Management of Viral Diseases with Special Emphasis on COVID-1911. Honey in Diabetes Management: Facts & Myths12. Honey in Reproductive Health Management13. Skin Rejuvenation and Dermatitis Management Using Honey14. Medicinal Evaluation of Potential Herbs for Producing Herbal Honey15. Therapeutic Potential of Honey in Alzheimer's Disease Management16. Antiaging Potential of Honey17. Bee-yond Medicine: Honey's Bioactives as Antioxidants18. Anti-proliferative Effect of Honey in Tumorigenicity of Different Cancer Types19. Honey in Eye Disease Management20. Future Perspectives of Honey in the Modern Medicine System
