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The Sweetest Feeling
An Israeli honey, now stocked in Harrods, is reputed to improve the quality of life of cancer sufferers. Valerie Tesler chats to the Jewish woman, who was so impressed with how it helped her father cope with leukaemia, that she started importing it to the UK.
You Magazine - THE BUZZ CONTINUES...
Since I wrote about the potential benefits of Life Mel honey (29 July 2007) for people with cancer, there has been a huge and positive response from readers.
Beverley Bottomley's white blood cell count had dropped to 1.53 during Taxol chemotherapy and she had to miss two sessions: "After taking the honey for ten days, my count had increased to 1.67 (the normal range is 4.3 - 10.8).
After another week tests showed 5.75. My oncologist is interested, to say the least.
CJ News - Honey product can stimulate the immune system
By MEIRA MAIEROVITZ DRAZIN, Special to The CJN
Candis - March 2008
Busy bees - Honey's use as a medicine is ancient history...
Real buzz about new honey
There has been a real buzz about the health benefits of honey for quite a few years now with it often being described as ‘nature’s own first aid kit’...
Healing Honey Helps Patients Survive Chemo
HONEY has long been used to soothe sore throats, heal wounds and treat stomach complaints but could it help cancer patients with treatment for chemotherapy? BARBARA LANTIN investigates.
Miraculous recovery sweet tale
It was an emotional New Year's Eve celebration for Dr. Heime Geffen and his family last night -- a toast not only to 2008 but to Geffen's mysterious survival. They also raised their glasses to a special honey from the Holy Land that Geffen believes helped bring him back from the brink of death.
The new buzz on Life Mel Honey
Sarah Stacey writes:
76 year old Dr. Heime Geffen made a remarkable recovery from leukaemia, after taking 'Life Mel honey', made by bees that feast on specific medicinal herbs and other immune-boosting natural substances
The day before I telephoned Dr Heime Geffen in Canada last month, he had played nine holes of golf, taken out the rubbish and played bridge. That's not extraordinary for many men of 76, but it was a huge event for him because in October 2006, Dr Geffen was diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukaemia after radiation therapy for another form of cancer. His doctors had abandoned chemotherapy in February this year, because his blood counts were so low.
"I had deteriorated physically to the point where I was virtually bedridden. I couldn't eat, I had sores in my mouth and I felt dreadful," he says.
How this turnaround happened has mystified everyone. It's just possible, although unlikely, that it could be a spontaneous remission or a delayed reaction to chemotherapy.
The other consideration is that, from April, this former family doctor has been taking twice-daily teaspoonfuls of Life Mel honey, made by bees that feast on specific medicinal herbs and other immune-boosting natural substances. His son-in-law heard about it from an oncologist in Israel (where the honey is manufactured), who had read a promising medical report and suggested it would be worth trying.
Within a week of starting the honey regime, Dr Geffen began feeling stronger and his blood counts started to improve. By mid-May, they were virtually normal; he was out of bed and taking short daily walks.
He had been having frequent blood transfusions but no longer requires them.
His daughter Terri is so convinced that the honey has been the trigger for her father's recovery that she passionately wants to make it available to other cancer patients and is importing it into this country, with a percentage of the profits on each jar going to cancer charities.
So far, the research is promising but slight: one small study by doctors at the oncology unit of Sieff Hospital in Israel was published in the peer-reviewed journal Medical Oncology (vol 23, no 4, 2006), which reported that 12 out of 30 cancer patients given the honey after chemotherapy did not suffer the usual dramatic dip in white blood-cell count (neutropenia), and eight patients reported improvement in quality of life.
There are also many anecdotal reports that echo Dr Geffen's experience.
Leading clinical oncologist Professor Karol Sikora considers the Life Mel honey "interesting – it's plausible that there are natural factors that stimulate bone marrow cells," but, he adds, "unfortunately, the research [so far] is not great".
Dr Geffen says he will go on taking the honey: "It's not proven but it's made from natural ingredients and there are no side effects. It is worth a try if you are at a dead end, as I was. My life has turned around." Life Mel honey, £45 for 113g inc UK p&p, tel: 020 7247 5497, www.lifemel.co.uk
Honey wards off the chemo bugs
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ITV 'This Morning'
Life Mel featured on ITV's This Morning show with Dr Chris Steele.
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Mum’s chemo fears
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Life Mel Hospital Study published in prestigious Medical Oncology journal
Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia by Special Honey Intake.
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