Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey’s bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey’s effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xv 8. Preface - p. xvii 9. Chapter 1. Understanding honey bioavailability - p. 1 10. Chapter 2. Value addition in honey for enhancing its bioavailability - p. 13 11. Chapter 3. Pleiotropic properties and therapeutic potential of honey - p. 21 12. Chapter 4. Herbal honey, uses, and future perspectives - p. 35 13. Chapter 5. Sustainable apicultural practices for welfare of mankind - p. 49 14. Chapter 6. Honey as a natural dietary supplement - p. 67 15. Chapter 7. Nutritional importance of honey - p. 81 16. Chapter 8. Honey-based formulations in traditional medical systems - p. 95 17. Chapter 9. Therapeutic effect of honey for respiratory infections - p. 107 18. Chapter 10. Honey in management of viral diseases with special emphasis on COVID-19 - p. 121 19. Chapter 11. Honey in diabetes management: facts and myths - p. 131 20. Chapter 12. Honey in reproductive health management - p. 145 21. Chapter 13. Skin rejuvenation and dermatitis management using honey - p. 159 22. Chapter 14. Medicinal evaluation of potential herbs for producing herbal honey - p. 171 23. Chapter 15. Therapeutic potential of honey in Alzheimer’s disease management - p. 183 24. Chapter 16. Antiaging potential of honey - p. 195 25. Chapter 17. Bee-yond medicine: honey’s bioactives as antioxidants - p. 221 26. Chapter 18. Antiproliferative effect of honey on tumorigenicity of different cancer types - p. 239 27. Chapter 19. Honey in eye disease management - p. 247 28. Chapter 20. Future perspectives of honey in the modern medicine system - p. 261 29. Index - p. 277
Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey’s bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey’s effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xv 8. Preface - p. xvii 9. Chapter 1. Understanding honey bioavailability - p. 1 10. Chapter 2. Value addition in honey for enhancing its bioavailability - p. 13 11. Chapter 3. Pleiotropic properties and therapeutic potential of honey - p. 21 12. Chapter 4. Herbal honey, uses, and future perspectives - p. 35 13. Chapter 5. Sustainable apicultural practices for welfare of mankind - p. 49 14. Chapter 6. Honey as a natural dietary supplement - p. 67 15. Chapter 7. Nutritional importance of honey - p. 81 16. Chapter 8. Honey-based formulations in traditional medical systems - p. 95 17. Chapter 9. Therapeutic effect of honey for respiratory infections - p. 107 18. Chapter 10. Honey in management of viral diseases with special emphasis on COVID-19 - p. 121 19. Chapter 11. Honey in diabetes management: facts and myths - p. 131 20. Chapter 12. Honey in reproductive health management - p. 145 21. Chapter 13. Skin rejuvenation and dermatitis management using honey - p. 159 22. Chapter 14. Medicinal evaluation of potential herbs for producing herbal honey - p. 171 23. Chapter 15. Therapeutic potential of honey in Alzheimer’s disease management - p. 183 24. Chapter 16. Antiaging potential of honey - p. 195 25. Chapter 17. Bee-yond medicine: honey’s bioactives as antioxidants - p. 221 26. Chapter 18. Antiproliferative effect of honey on tumorigenicity of different cancer types - p. 239 27. Chapter 19. Honey in eye disease management - p. 247 28. Chapter 20. Future perspectives of honey in the modern medicine system - p. 261 29. Index - p. 277
