What Is Royal Jelly Used for Today?
Royal jelly continues to be promoted as a life-extending supplement. However, as noted above, this use is based on reasoning so simplistic it is difficult to take it seriously. There is certainly no meaningful evidence that it actually offers this benefit in humans. There is no question that royal jelly contains a variety of nutrients, including pantothenic acid and vitamin B 6 . Royal jelly also has antimicrobial properties in the test tube. 1 However, an enormous number of other natural substances do so as well, and yet do not act as antibiotics when taken orally. A collection of animal studies and poorly designed human trials hint that royal jelly might be helpful for improving cholesterol profile . 2 However, most of this research was done in the former USSR or its satellite countries, and fails to reach current standards of scientific validity. Very weak evidence, too weak to rely upon at all, has been used to support the belief that royal jelly is in fact helpful in its tradition
