The Art of Bringing Bee Propolis to the Frontline in the USA… It Just Makes Sense

NaturaNectar Gastro Guardian & Bee Propolis on Vitamin Retailer March 2012

Since our inception we have been tirelessly working on several PR fronts to make sure the Brazilian Bee Propolis ingredients and products including our exclusive Red Bee Propolis get recognized and appreciated by a growing number of media outlets. I believe the March edition of Vitamin Retailer is an excellent example of the type of coverage products like our unique NaturaNectar Gastro Guardian deserve (see an article on digestion). The same edition brings a very educative article on bee propolis and how honeybees have evolved in Brazil to create more than 13 different types of propolis. It is a must read and I hope you not only enjoy but also get educated on how this phenomenal immune system of the beehive can help our health. So much to write…

HSI Second Independent Article on Red Bee Propolis

Rare Brazilian compound takes on free radicals, infections, and even more…

by Michele Cagan

This extremely rare and unusual substance works so hard to conquer free radicals that it puts super foods like acai to shame. In fact, its anti- oxidant potential outstrips every food measured by the USDA…

That’s right, based on an independent lab test, FLAV-R scored 354,000…The highest scoring food [up to now] was raw sumac bran, coming in at a stunning score of 312,400 (for comparison, acai scored 102,400)…

And red propolis still brings more health-protecting potential, so your body can fight off health threats from every corner…We face a lot of threats to our health, and so do bees. And now we have access to their virtually bullet- proof protection: propolis. Propolis literally protects bee- hives from virtually all microscopic invaders. In fact, it acts as the hive’s immune system, keeping the entire inner environment sterile, despite its microbe-welcoming warmth.

The March 2012 edition of MEMBERS ALERT of  HSI – Health Sciences Institute, an independent organization, dedicated to uncovering and researching the most urgent advances in modern alternative medicine, featured HSI second article on Brazilian Red Bee Propolis. Our exclusive ingredient continues to receive the attention of the scientific communcity accross the globe and it is great to see HSI following it closely. HSI is an exclusive paid subscription service for a very large audience mainly in the US but also other countries like Canada and  Australia.

Good Sunday everyone!

Leaked Memo Sheds Light on Mysterious Bee Die-Offs and Who’s to Blame

Leaked Memo Sheds Light on Mysterious Bee Die-Offs and Who’s to Blame

Jill Richardson writes on AlterNet and gives a feasible explanation for the Colony Collapse Disorder. Very good reading for all of us connected to the precious bees.

The True Red Bees!

The True Red Bees!

I couldn’t resist the buzz in the net yesterday and today from the New Your Times to other NY publications about these Red Hook, Brooklyn bees that mysteriously turn themselves red and started to produce a red color honey. The strange occurrence generated speculation that maybe this was caused by some unknown disease. I was intrigued and fascinated by the possibility  that maybe we were dealing with some new type of bees! It turned out that these Brooklyn bees decided to make a stop somewhere where Red Dye No. 40 – a common food coloring – is used, most likely at Dell’s Maraschino Cherries Company over on Dikeman Street in Red Hook…  So if you are disappointed these bees aren’t really red after all, here is a piece of good news!

Our propolis producing bees in Brazil, although not red in color, what they do is truly amazingly RED!

Click here and watch our bees producing the fantastic Brazilian Red Bee Propolis! You will love how natural and healthy this is. Enjoy!

Health Sciences Institute Independent Article

Red Propolis Bees Collecting Resin from www.naturanectar.com

Just-Discovered Rare Substance Takes the Sting out of Menopause… and So Much More.

by Michele Cagan

In a very small region in the heart of Brazil lies the secret to a virtually unnoticeable menopause…

This unlikely story begins with a businessman and a swarm of bees…

This Brazilian red bee propolis created by Alessandro’s hives contains several isoflavones—some of which are still unidentified because they’ve never been seen before. But the key to their [...] capabilities is well-known…

You see, propolis is what bees use to protect their hives from, well, everything. In fact, propolis is literally the hive’s immune system, and it keeps the entire inner environment pure and sterile.

Last month’s edition of MEMBERS ALERT of  HSI – Health Sciences Institute, an independent organization, dedicated to uncovering and researching the most urgent advances in modern alternative medicine, featured a comprehensive two and a half page article on the many health benefits of our ingredient and specifically our product EaseFemin™ Menopausal Support. This is an exclusive paid subscription service for a very large audience mainly in the US but also other countries like Canada and  Australia.

Have a great week!

Stunning Red Bees in Action Video

Stunning Red Bees in Action

This is exciting! For the last several weeks we’ve been busy producing a documentary that will soon air nationally on WE – Women’s Entertainment Network: The Art of Living with Marilu Henner.  We took some amazing shots of our production facilities in Brazil at our sister company APIARY ALMAR LTDA. So we thought: why not do some short videos and populate them on our recently refreshed website? Here is the first one…

I invite you to watch this short 3.5 minute movie. Make sure you blow up your screen to FULL and watch it in HD! I think you are going to like it and have a better understanding of the passion we feel for this blessing from nature, the Brazilian Red Bee Propolis.

If you like it, let your friends and family know it by forwarding, tweeting, blogging, or any other …”ing” you may know!

Have a blessed day!

Red Bee Propolis: The Phyto-Estrogen Link

Copyright © 2010 NaturaNectar™: Bees Working on Red Bee Propolis

A few years ago, my life journey took a dramatic turn motivated by a long term desire within me for working on something to improve our world and our “neighbors’ lives”.  Such turns do not happen without some sort of remarkable circumstance. In my case listening to the story of bees and their complex society, and more specifically the Brazilian Red Bee Propolis, represented what in the Christian faith is called an ‘epiphany’, or as others would say, my ‘aha’ – that magic moment when you acquire a sureness that triggers a new beginning.

Today I want to share with you one amazing aspect of the Brazilian Red Bee Propolis:  It is the only bee propolis in the world that is rich in isoflavones or phyto-estrogens. These natural compounds have the incredible ability to mimic the role of hormone estrogen in women’s bodies without being hormones!

That’s why we decided to have EaseFemin™ Menopausal Support as our first product. There are over 40 million women in the US alone going through the menopausal stage of life. The Red Bee Propolis is now the first new, all natural, source of isoflavones in many decades. Using Red Bee Propolis isoflavones in a menopause formula means a new hope for all the women going through this phase of life.

I am pleased to learn that 80% of EaseFemin™ Menopausal Support clients are still taking it months after they started. Their testimonies are a truly inspirational. They are a part of this remarkable “neighborhood” that has been born inspired and affected by the fantastic and wise work of bees! There are numerous health benefits from the Brazilian Red Bee Propolis but I think it is intriguing that in the hive, a mostly female insect community (there are thousands of female worker bees, hundred of males (drones) and one queen bee), we would find a special nectar to help alleviate symptoms of this challenging phase of life for many women. What a prefect design!

Chances are you will find these facts interesting. If that is the case, send this blog’s link to a friend that may benefit from this information. At the end of the day, that’s what neighbors are all about!  Have a great and healthy day!

The Gift of the Bees for You and Me

Copyright © 2009 NaturaNectar™. All rights reserved.

Today I watched The Bee Movie with my kids and what a great family movie!  Humanizing bees as they perform their jobs in the hive and at the outside (our) world was a great idea. The moral of the movie, in my perspective, is no society fully accomplishes its purposes when motives are centered exclusively on the society itself. What a great lesson for us humans, especially in these days when so much is said about sustainability and being green and yet we are so self focused.

I am so excited that we have created NaturaNectar™ inspired by the one of the beehive’s precious produce, the Bee Propolis and by the intriguing way bees organize themselves in the hives to generate the elements necessary for their own existence and survival and, as a consequence, provide us, their human neighbors, with the gift of nutrition, immunity and great health.

During their life cycle that can vary from  4 to 6 weeks to 4 to 6 months depending on the work they perform, bees have a very busy and complex life. That’s probably why there is so much buzz about the bees! In the hive, under the leadership of the queen bee, all other bees have to perform different activities so that the elaborate and mostly sterile inner-hive can function and complete its life-cycle. Bees will work on different tasks involving, for instance, water, pollen, honey, royal jelly, honeycomb construction using wax, and propolis.

Our desire and ultimate aim is for our company to be just like that.  We will work diligently to generate the necessary resources for our own existence and just like the bees, we will strive to provide our clients with the gift of high quality supplements to improve their health.   To our neighbors in greater need and the environment necessary to sustain life, our goal is to be a beacon, by giving back and inspiring others to do so. Just as the bees have for tens and maybe hundreds of millions of years given so much to us, we believe it is now our time to follow the example of the bees and make a difference on our neighborhood.

As our business develops, we are having the pleasure to work with great people who can understand our culture and help us craft our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. If your company has an inspirational and effective CSR policy in place, share what makes it so special with me and our blog readers.  Here is my promise:  I will listen, and maybe use it as a source of inspiration!

Thank you for following this blog and have a blessed weekend!