Honey is sweet! but the bee stings

On Monday we discussed the various ways that people want to "cure" their inflammation and the idea of Bee Sting/Venom therapy was brought up so I got curious and decided to do some research. What I ended up finding was this website http://www.apitherapy.org/ where people can go to find natural ways to cure/relieve not only inflammatory/immune issues but other medical conditions as well.

 Immune system dysfunction or problems
        Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
        Rheumatoid arthritis
        Hay fever
Neurologic problems
        MS
        ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
        Shingles
        Scar pain
Musculoskeletal problems
        Arthritis
        Gout
        Tendonitis, bursitis
        Spinal pain
Infectious problems
        Bacterial, viral, and fungal illnesses
Traumas
        Wounds, acute and chronic
Burns
        Sprains
        Fractures
Tumors
        Benign
        Malignant (cancer)

 http://www.apitherapy.org/about-apitherapy/conditions-treated/

They basically have a slew of products that are harvested from bees that can be used as a natural remedy, and under each product they give a bit of history and the benefits you can get from using that particular product which I think is really handy for someone who is seriously looking into this.

Believe me I'm all for trying to find a natural way to cure things but to willingly allow myself to be stung dozens of times doesn't sound like a good time. I find it interesting that each article that you find when you google this therapy sort of contradicts each other in the fact that some say that there is concrete evidence that it works and others say that it's a long shot and needs to be tested further. I wanted to see what some other people thought about the idea of using bee venom to cure yourself and I found this article with a skeptic's view on the whole procedure http://ms.about.com/od/alternativemedicine/a/bee_stings.htm and if you look through all of the comments on this page http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2007/07/30/bee-sting-again/ you'll see that like Dr. Cohen said many people swear by the treatment.

You've got a chronic case of inactivity!

Recently, an article appeared on the NPR website saying that some scientists are now considering inactivity to be a medical condition (up there with heart disease and diabetes) and believe that physicans need to take on some of the responsibility.

Why bring this up on Inflammablog? Well...many inflammatory conditions are closely related: such as obesity, type II diabetes, stroke, heart disease...

So, do you think doctors need to take a larger stance against inactivity? Whose responsibility is it to get out there and move?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/15/158831652/should-lack-of-exercise-be-considered-a-medical-condition?sc=17&f=1001