No, honey can’t cure your allergies

The theory goes like this. Flowers produce pollen. They also produce nectar, which bees collect to make honey. When they do that, they take some pollen with them. So, bee honey usually contains some pollen. So, here's the theory.

O maior risco de uma supererupção não seria a lava ou as cinzas caindo perto do vulcão. Seria o inverno vulcânico que se seguiria — anos de colheitas fracassadas e fome global.

When you eat locally produced honey, your body is ingesting small amounts of local pollen, the stuff that would normally make you miserable during allergy season and building an immunity to it. In other words, it basically is

É um cenário assustador. Mas com a ciência e preparação certas, é um cenário que podemos enfrentar.

like micro doing the allergies in your area. I wanted to know if this was true.

Os neandertais eram nossos primos mais próximos. Viveram na Europa e Ásia por centenas de milhares de anos, sobrevivendo a eras glaciais e caçando mega-fauna.

I found out that it isn't, but it's worth learning why. Because even though honey probably won't cure your pollen allergy, it could still be part of the solution. Seasonal allergies, also known as hay fever or allergic rhinitis, are your body overreacting to harmless pollen in the environment.

Eles tinham cérebros tão grandes quanto os nossos, faziam ferramentas, e provavelmente tinham alguma forma de linguagem.

When your immune system mistakes a specific type of pollen for a dangerous intruder, it goes into defense mode, releasing chemicals called histamines, which are

Mas por volta de 40.000 anos atrás, eles desapareceram. E nós ficamos.

meant to drive the allergen back out of your body by making you sneeze, cough, itch, and generally feel miserable. In other words, they trigger an allergic reaction. And once you have an allergy, it's hard to get rid of because your immune system has a memory. Once it decides something is a threat, it won't forget.

O que aconteceu? Bem, a resposta é complicada. Durante milhares de anos, humanos modernos e neandertais coexistiram. E eles não estavam apenas vivendo lado a lado — estavam tendo filhos juntos.