Forget viagra, Honey, I love you

The Times has been extolling the medical and sexual benefits of honey. In amongst some good science, there’s some decidedly iffy science and a nice bit of hype:

“Put a woman who’s struggling to conceive on bee pollen and you can pretty much guarantee a result within two to three months,” claims Susan Fletcher of Apitherapy Foods UK. She puts this down to the belief that “pollen increases the biological value of the egg, restores and rejuvenates natural hormonal substances and can increase sexual stamina”.

Even Dame Barbara Cartland was known to twitter the praises of royal jelly, a “completely pure and wonderful aid to beauty”.