# Anyone take bee pollen?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 11, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879 "2008-05-11T02:17:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/1 "2008-05-11T02:17:30Z")
I’ve heard that it gives you energy, and I’m just curious if it works.
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/2 "2008-05-11T02:51:24Z")
Sometimes… No clue on energy… Better off sleeping and eating correctly…
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/3 "2008-05-11T03:17:47Z")
I had a vegetarian friend once who took it for B vitamins or something like that, and although I can’t tell you if it works, it was nasty. He had a big jar of it in little clumps (not the capsules), and would just empty a pile on his hand and throw it down the hatch, followed by a swig of water. I tried it and just about gagged (and I have a well-honed gag reflex!)
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/4 "2008-05-11T03:21:00Z")
Ok, what the hell is bee pollen? Bees don’t make pollen, flowers do.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/5 "2008-05-11T03:26:14Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Ok, what the hell is bee pollen? Bees don’t make pollen, flowers do.
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Ah, it’s [crap](http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/bee.html).
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/6 "2008-05-11T10:49:01Z")
I tried it, but it seemed to cause an allergic reaction in me. A slight one, but it was consistent.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/7 "2008-05-11T11:12:25Z")
My mother sent me some bee pollen tablets which claim to have a large quantity of vitamin B. They’re called “Naturebee.” I can say that after taking them I sleep more fitfully, and wake up more soundly. Maybe it’s just psychological, but I got them for free, so why not? I haven’t heard anything that says bee pollen is toxic,
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/8 "2008-05-11T11:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=guizot]
My mother sent me some bee pollen tablets which claim to have a large quantity of vitamin B. They’re called “Naturebee.” I can say that after taking them I sleep more fitfully, and wake up more soundly. Maybe it’s just psychological, but I got them for free, so why not? I haven’t heard anything that says bee pollen is toxic,
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Forgive me, I’m not trying to be a smart-ass. What does it mean to wake up more soundly?
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### Author:  [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/9 "2008-05-11T11:56:29Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
I tried it, but it seemed to cause an allergic reaction in me. A slight one, but it was consistent.
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One of my peers swore by it as relief from hayfever and allergies in general. I think I’m going to get some and try it.
I love this place.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/10 "2008-05-11T12:24:34Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman]
One of my peers swore by it as relief from hayfever and allergies in general. I think I’m going to get some and try it.
I love this place.
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That was why I tried it. Well that and I needed an energy boost. But I would take it and seem to have some problems breathing for the first hour or two after. I stopped taking it.
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### Author:  [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/11 "2008-05-11T14:04:33Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
That was why I tried it. Well that and I needed an energy boost. But I would take it and seem to have some problems breathing for the first hour or two after. I stopped taking it.
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I was going to get it for my wife. She just woke up and told me it didn’t work for here. Oh, well.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/12 "2008-05-11T14:33:22Z")
[QUOTE=guizot]
…I sleep more fitfully…
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I don’t think that’s the [word](http://www.answers.com/fitful) you want there, is it?
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-take-bee-pollen/448879/13 "2008-05-11T16:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
Forgive me, I’m not trying to be a smart-ass. What does it mean to wake up more soundly?
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[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
I don’t think that’s the word you want there, is it?
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Anything I say after 4:00am on Sunday morning (and after going out to several salsatheques) should be disregarded. Sorry.
Now that I’ve had some coffee, I can only say that sometimes I feel somewhat better rested after taking these bee pollen tablets my mother has sent me. That probably is all psychosomatic.
soundly = having rested better, without disturbance
ftfully = fittingly, for without distrubances
At four am, I’m not going to be particular. But thanks for the notifications! I appreciate them.