Honey Helps Promote Restorative Sleep 
 
Presentations at the First International Symposium on Honey and Human
Health
January 8th, 2008, Sacramento, California  
Sponsored by the Committee for the Promotion of Honey and Health, Inc 

The Uniqueness of Honey - - its impact on Human Metabolism and its role
in Restorative Sleep
By Mike McInnis, MRPS
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/01/honeys-helps-promote-restorative-sleep.html

A model for reducing what Mr. McInnes calls the modern metabolic
syndrome (chronic stress/impaired glucose disposal/impaired fat
disposal) by the consumption of honey forms the basis for this
presentation.  Mr. McInnes introduced the dominant role of glucose
metabolism in the human and establish the reverse glucose-fatty acid
cycle and metabolism, then established the role of chronic cortisol
driven stress in inhibiting glucose metabolism, which then inhibits fat
metabolism, a critical and largely overlooked factor in the metabolic
syndrome.  

This presentation showed how honey improves, facilitates, (lengthens)
restorative sleep by at least 3 mechanisms...

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