{"id":71947,"date":"2017-08-15T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/this-molecule-found-in-royal-jelly-is-the-secret-ingredient-to-speed-up-wound-healing"},"modified":"2017-08-15T22:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:47:37","slug":"this-molecule-found-in-royal-jelly-is-the-secret-ingredient-to-speed-up-wound-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/this-molecule-found-in-royal-jelly-is-the-secret-ingredient-to-speed-up-wound-healing","title":{"rendered":"This Molecule Found in Royal Jelly Is The Secret Ingredient to Speed Up Wound Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-molecule-found-in-royal-jelly-is-the-secret-ingredient-to-speed-up-wound-healing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honey bees really are tiny hardworking superheroes of the insect world \u2014 not only do they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-pollinators-are-dying-out-and-all-our-favourite-foods-could-go-with-them\">keep our agriculture going<\/a> by pollinating many of our crops, but they also produce a myriad of beneficial substances, like honey and beeswax.<\/p>\n<p>For thousands of years honey has been prized for its topical antiseptic properties. But now researchers have discovered that its lesser-known cousin, royal jelly, has special molecules that speed up wound healing.<\/p>\n<p>Royal jelly is the superfood worker bees secrete and feed all their larvae, especially the queen bees. While queens are developing, they basically float in a pool of this stuff, and humans have figured out how to stimulate queen larva production to then harvest the royal jelly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-molecule-found-in-royal-jelly-is-the-secret-ingredient-to-speed-up-wound-healing\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-molecule-found-in-royal-jel...nd-healing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey bees really are tiny hardworking superheroes of the insect world \u2014 not only do they keep our agriculture going by pollinating many of our crops, but they also produce a myriad of beneficial substances, like honey and beeswax. For thousands of years honey has been prized for its topical antiseptic properties. But now researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}