Honey Stinger™ is a natural energy gel made from a combination of Pure Honey, Pure Water, Salt, Potassium Citrate and Vitamin B Complex (Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, B1, B2, B6, B12).

Honey Stinger™ contains an ideal balance of carbohydrates for optimal performance before, during and after training
A near 50/50 Fructose - Glucose ratio gives ideal levels of glycogen to muscles and liver.
Ensuring the liver is properly fuelled is an insurance policy for the muscles. The liver is the only source of Glucose for the brain. If the brain runs low, you may find it difficult to continue training. The only way for the liver to produce more supplies is to break down muscle tissue.
Taking Honey Stingers on board during training sends Fructose to the liver and Glucose to the muscles ensuring optimal performance and strength.
Honey Stinger™ uses honey as the main source of carbohydrates, as opposed to man made carbohydrates commonly found in other energy gels. Studies show that honey is low on the glycemic index and therefore provides a long, steady source of energy instead of a spike and crash. Honey is also a natural source of antioxidants.

Honey Stinger™ Energy Gel benefits:
* All natural
* Contains Vitamin B complex, which supports the absorption of proteins and fats and the breakdown of carbohydrates into glucose. This helps provide energy and may contribute to improved recovery time.
* Contains Sodium and Potassium, which are essential electrolytes that need replacement during activity
* Naturally low on glycemic index, thus preventing an energy spike and crash
* Provides quick energy
* Natural source of carbohydrates
* Tastes great and goes down smooth
* Provides long, steady source of energy
* Quickly absorbed into your system
* 120 calorie energy boost
* Fat free
* Natural source of antioxidants
* Helps speed muscle recovery
* May be used before, during and after activity
* Honey Stinger is water-soluble so it can be mixed in any liquid. Mix it in your water bottle for a quick energy drink or add it to your hot tea for a winter energy drink.
* Great to use on cereal, toast and fruit

 

ABOUT HONEY:
Honey is mankind’s oldest sweetener.
Cave paintings in Spain from 7000 years ago depict scenes of men extracting honey from natural hives.
Honey was used by the Egyptians as a food and medicinal agent.
The philosophers Plato and Aristotle make references to honey in their writings.
The Greek Olympians used honey and figs as fuel for exercise and for sport and were certainly ahead of their time.
To make one pound of honey bees must tap 2 million flowers for nectar and from one hive 55 thousand miles of flight must be undertaken to provide this one single pound. Honey bees can fly up to 22 miles per hour, and their fuel is so efficient that one bee could fly round the world on as little as an ounce of honey.
Honey contains a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and amino acids - the building blocks of proteins.
Honey naturally contains Pyridoxine (vitamin B6), Thiamine (vitamin B1), Riboflavin (vitamin B2) and Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5).
Essential minerals include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and zinc.
During the early part of the 20th century researchers began to document the healing properties of honey. This ceased with the development of antibiotics but the development of resistance to antibiotics has led to a resurgence of interest into the anti-microbial and healing properties of honey. Honey has powerful anti-bacterial properties and research into honey for burns and post-surgical wound healing has confirmed this. Other conditions for which honey has shown promise include allergies and oral health.

NATURAL HONEY LOWERS BLOOD GLUCOSE

The headline above appeared in a paper published in the Journal of Medicinal Food in April 2004. This amazing headline may seem to defy common sense...
Honey consists of two sugars, glucose and fructose in a 1 to 1 relationship.
It seems that honey would therefore raise blood sugar level.
But the secret of honey and its most beneficial effect on health (to lower blood glucose) is the content of fructose.
How does it work to reduce blood glucose?
Here’s how.
When sugars are absorbed from the gut into the blood they are first of all pass through the liver. What happens here is the key to most (not all) the wonderful benefits of honey for human health.
The fructose is taken into the liver because the liver is the only organ in the human body with the fructose enzyme to take in this sugar. Fructose is a liver exclusive sugar.
In the liver the fructose is converted into glucose and then stored as liver glycogen (glycogen is human starch). Therefore fructose does not pass through the liver into the general circulation. Equally by being stored in the liver as glycogen the glucose formed from the fructose is stored in the liver and released only if and when blood glucose falls.
However this is not the end of the fructose story.
Far from it.
Fructose activates the glucose enzyme in the liver allowing the liver to take in as much glucose as it requires. This fabulous trick, whereby fructose enters the liver and opens the gate for glucose entry is known as THE FRUCTOSE PARADOX.

THE FRUCTOSE PARADOX

The Fructose paradox allows for glucose uptake into the liver and therefore prevents a rapid rise in blood glucose. In other words fructose lowers the GI of glucose. In other words fructose regulates the uptake and storage of glucose and therefore is a blood glucose regulator.
Fructose is the natural regulator that nature has provided for humans and is found in fruits, vegetables and honey and is always (with the exception of starch) in a 1:1 ratio with glucose. Therefore we can use natural fructose to regulate blood glucose levels, to stabilise blood glucose and to maintain a regular supply of glucose to the brain - the biggest problem that we as humans have to deal with – keeping blood glucose stable and the brain fuelled for 24 hours, especially during the hours of the night fast.
Now we have to think a little about the brain.

THE BRAIN

The human brain is most energy demanding organ in the body by a long, long way. We know how exhausted we feel when we have to concentrate for a lengthy period. People often refer to mental exhaustion as being greater than physical exhaustion and this is indeed the case.
At rest on a gram for gram or cell for cell basis the human brain burns up to 20 times the fuel of any other cell in the body. However this energy burning furnace at the top of our spinal column has no on board energy store.
The brain is always around 30 seconds from meltdown, a few minutes from a coma and not many more minutes away from death if glucose is not available.
Why does the brain not have its own store?
Because glucose in storage occupies a large amount of space and there is simply no room in the brain.
Now we see the problem that we have in maintaining fuel supply to the brain. The liver is the only organ which can both store and release glucose into the circulation and most of the fuel released from the liver is required by the brain (around 65%).
This is why looking after your liver glycogen store is so critical for humans with such a big and energy hungry brain (for glucose - the brain is sweet toothed).
Any fall in blood glucose is dangerous for the brain. Even a minor fall in blood glucose will cause the brain to panic. This will cause the adrenal glands to be activated, to go into hyper drive and the adrenal hormones are, if overproduced toxic to human biology. The hormones are of course essential for the type of crisis mentioned but these hormones (stress hormones) make us sick if we produce them chronically.
Chronic overproduction of the adrenal glands is the condition of modern man and will lead to conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes (non insulin dependent), poor immune function, depression and other distressing conditions with which we are all familiar.
If we can look after our liver glycogen store, by including in our diet the correct balance of carbohydrates so that both the liver and therefore the brain are catered for at all times of the day and night we reduce the requirement for production of the adrenal hormones, and we can then reserve our adrenal glands for their correct function which is for fight or flight.
How do we do this?
By stabilising blood glucose.
How do we do this?
By looking after our liver glycogen store in the way that nature intended, by using natural fructose from fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice and the other natural source, honey.
As the headline claims:

NATURAL HONEY LOWERS PLASMA GLUCOSE

The fructose enters the liver, opens the liver to glucose intake, stores both as glucose and this stabilizes blood glucose and fuels the brain. This in turn reduces requirement for release of the adrenal hormones (the ‘adrenocides’) with all their horrible effects.
It really is as simple as that.