X-Message-Number: 21136 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:10:30 -0800 Subject: Flies and Bee Pollen From: Peter Merel <> Hi Doug, The last couple of weeks I've been replacing my multivitamin intake with fresh bee pollen. I'm generally pretty cautious with the supplements I use, but try new ones regularly enough to know the difference between placebo and significant change in my physiology. The effect of this stuff on mental clarity and general feelings of health is so profound I'm amazed at how little I've been able to find about it online. There are claims bee pollen is a perfect food, stuffed with various kinds of phytonutrient you can't get elsewhere, good for lots of ailments, and by itself sufficient for optimal rat nutrition. I've seen various claims made for "potentiated" bee pollen - but nothing to suggest "potentiation" has been scientifically checked for any real effect, good or ill. I'm planning a trip up to UCSD tomorrow to see if I can dig out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11951585&dopt=Abstract ... for now all I can really say is that the stuff I've got is just freshly scraped off bee legs, and I'm very happy with its immediate effects. I'd be most interested in how it might work with your flies. Peter Merel. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21136