IV.5.2. THREE DIMENSIONAL NATURE OF HONEY BEE THERAPEUTIC PRODUCTS

The apitherapy benefits at both prophylactic and therapeutic levels combines three dimensions, due to the complexity of the substances they contain and they offer to the clinician and of course, to the patient:

1) as food-honey bee therapeutic products, they give to the human body all the macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates and lipids), and, simultaneously, all the biostimulants - vitamins, minerals, enzymes, coenzymes, pigments, antioxidants and so on;

2) they contain both the substances of which, by its own metabolic functions the human body can synthesize the ones necessary for its physiological functions and also an impressive range of substances fully developed – the priceless bee biomolecules - with identical biochemical structure to the ones synthesized by the human body, which is particularly important in cases of human metabolism malfunctions;

3) they contain all the component substances of the biostructure of the human cell, from the bilipic membrane and the cell organelles to the acids of their nucleus.