Androlog Mail:
Royal Jelly is a natural substance secreted by the glands of worker
honeybees and deposited in the hives. It is then used by Nurse bees to feed
all honeybee larvae for the first three days of their life. However, the
Queen bee continues to be fed this substance until its death. Since the
queen bee grows to a much larger size and is responsible for the fertility
of the hive, the thought is that Royal Jelly somehow contributes. The
cosmetics industry has seized on this, and therefore uses royal jelly in a
number of products. In fact, I got the above information from a cosmetics
company called "Jaffra", which makes a substance called something like
"Royal Milk Jelly Facial Balm." The representatives I spoke with did not
know of any testing of royal jelly on spermatogenesis or sperm motility;
there was no information on Medline either.
Erol Onel, M.D.
Fellow, Andrology and Erectile Dysfunction
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Urology
Chicago, IL
EOnel@uic.edu
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