[dillondoyle]

You had me until the last one ;)

Does anyone have science on specifically sugar? I find that correlation too (only with lots of cheap candy/bad greasy food), but feels kind of Goop-like bs. what is the mechanism for that to affect bacteria on the face?

[Sunspark]

I present to you honey. Honey never goes bad, it has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties and for this reason is why it also helps with wound healing.

[dillondoyle]

and i've read allergies too! I buy like a couple pounds of these every few months it's so good: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006MWDFUC/

[Sunspark]

I like raw honey, but I don't think it does much for allergies. However, I can tell you that bee pollen does do something. If you try pollen you have to start very early in the season (like Feb-Mar early) with 1 grain and then increasing the count from there.

Whether honey or bee pollen, if being used for allergies, you should be using product from your local area, not imported from far away and especially not another country with completely different flora.

[D1CA1890]

Anecdotal, but switching the honey I used in my morning oatmeal to a locally-farmed raw variety really did seem to help quite a bit with my seasonal allergies.

A qualifier on that statement is that the seasonal allergies started when I moved 1000 miles to a very different part of the country. It may just have been acclimation, but I don't plan on switching back to the other types of honey to test if the symptoms return.

It's not entirely gone, some years are nothing and some are light. Nothing is ever are terrible as the first few years were, though.

[plexman]

I believe that the authority in sugar is DR. Robert Lustig. He has a great book called Fat Chance, there he explains in details how sugar is a toxin and correlates with a plethora of diseases. Great read from a true hero that saved many obese kids during his practice.

[Sunspark]

Sugar is more than that, it's also an addictive drug. Try quitting sugar and see how far you get.