Is Honey okay to have with Lyme? Sugars?

I keep hearing that honey is really good for Lyme and that it helps your immune system and stuff. But the honey i have has 16 grams of sugar per tablespoon! That's a lot of sugar. It's the same amount of sugar in my maple syrup.

I am supposed to be on a low sugar and low carb diet (For Lyme, Babesia, and Candida issues). the candida issues are not as severe as they used to be but still, 16 grams of sugar for one tablespoon of honey?!!

The honey i have is Kirkland's Signature (Costco brand) Clover Honey Grade A. It does not say organic but it lists "honey" as it's one and only ingredient.

So do i have the wrong honey...or am i just missing something about what makes honey so good?

I would say use the costco one and then when you are done look for a local apiary or bee keeper to obtain raw unfiltered honey - that is the best stuff. You can usually tell it is raw b/c it will not be transparent.

Honey is the only food on the planet that will never spoil - ever. It is amazing. Bees are amazing. In a second life of mine I will be a bee keeper for sure! :)

i would take the equivalent of 1 tablespoon per day and it never caused a yeast flare for me personally but if your dr advised you to stay away from all sugars that would include honey as well as fruit.

If you are currently battling candida, then don't have any honey. If you aren't having issues with candida, then 1 tablespoon a day will actually help prevent candida because of it's antibacterial properties if the rest of your diet is good.

Just make sure it's raw honey if you use any, as others have said.

My LLMD allows honey. However, if you can afford it, please buy organic or support small farm honey. The pesticides that accumulate in commercial, mass produced honey are highly concentrated and the bees are stressed. Its one reason that the bees themselves are dying and entire colonies are being wiped out.

You can watch a documentary on Netflix called "Vanishing of the Bees" about this if you are interested.

That's too bad about the new neighbors. What kind of nests are you talking about? Do you have bee hives in your cedar trees?

I don't know anything about the Synergy Protocol. Is it a Lyme protocol?

I'll have to look it up.

Margaret

I will honey. Ha ha!

Margaret

Wow! I hadn't heard about that opugirl. That will just mess up the native bees. As the saying goes, "it's not nice to mess with mother nature".

Margaret, I haven't been able to see their nest, but I did nothing to encourage them. It was just by chance when we came across the first one, when my husband started hearing buzzing near where he was working and he stopped to see what it was and saw them going in and out of a crevasse in the trunk. That may be why they go for cedars since they don't have a round, flat trunk like fir trees. They have a fluted trunk, so that creates areas for them to get in and make their hive. They had one in another spot last year. I was just happy to see them use our trees, which don't have anything to harm them. We have 3 or 4 pollinators around. I have a mason bee block on our front porch and it's a full house, so I need to make another one in the spring. I just enjoy seeing the good insect balance here, nature at it's best. I rarely have pest problems.

Sorry, I really got OT. If you get raw, undiluted honey, just a little bit of it can satisfy a sweet tooth. If you get a sugar craving, it would be a lot better than cane sugar. Sugar beets have GMOs now, so it wouldn't be good for anyone.

My husband cured a burn with it. He developed a blister pretty fast, so it was more than a minor burn. He didn't pop the blister, just put honey over it and taped some gauze over it.

Hi Fireredfreak,
I too have issues with a ragweed allergy,although not as severe as you seem to have -but still, no fun!! I'm so lucky that it blooms twice a year here!!

While Xylitol is a good choice for sweetening and protecting the mouth, but it's biofilm busting properties don't survive the stomach acid, so it only doesn't help with biofilms anywhere but the mouth.

As for eating honey, you might try just a tiny bit at some point. I too was pretty allergic to bee stings and my brother had full blown anaphylactic reactions to all types of bee/wasp/hornet stings and we both eat honey. If you are still quite allergic, I wouldn't do this without being in a doctor's office though! Caution is always best!

Thank you for the feed back, Fireredfreak!!!

We use only manuka honey. expensive but worth it because of all of the honeys healing properties. If you google manuka honey, there are many sites that explain the honeys healing properties better than I could.