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hey guys dr. Berg here I had a lot of requests  for honey okay raw honey versus pasteurized honey  

so let’s just talk about it it takes 60,000  bees 55,000 miles to make one pound of honey  

and then we steal their honey okay we give them  sugar water it’s just terrible but honey in the  

right form is very antimicrobial anti-inflammatory  and especially if you mix it with a little apple  

cider vinegar and lemon and water you know  it can help you anti-allergy why because it  

has pollen and has other factors that really  will help build up your immune system and even  

can lower blood pressure and it has B vitamins  magnesium calcium potassium says basically it’s  

a sweetener that has a lot of good stuff however  it still has 50% fructose in 50% glucose which  

means it can flow down your weight loss and it  does have a relatively high glycemic index now  

there are certain types of honey especially with  Tupelo honey that is much lower and it’s used  

for diabetics and small small amounts so if you  want to consume honey for certain health reasons  

the version that I would consume would be the  manuka honey okay find that because because it’s  

a really unprocessed raw honey that has a lot of  great properties but here’s the thing make sure  

your honey is always raw and it’s not pasteurized  why because when they pasteurizer they cook it to  

destroy everything it so now you’re just getting  pure sugar now yes it’s true that if here you’re  

not going to give raw honey to a baby because  there’s a risk of getting botulism and by the way  

my son when you were six months old got botulism  not from honey from some other source but it can  

be very very scary and dangerous so you don’t want  to give small infants but if you’re adult you can  

get away with it very easily but so my overall  impression honey is that it’s really the quality  

make sure it’s raw and and go ahead and have some  if you’re trying to improve your allergies or your  

immune system and you want to do this on like  a periodic basis all right thanks for watching