Description: Honey Bioavailability: Understanding Nutritional Benefits and Therapeutic Potential begins with an overview of sustainable apiculture practices, methods of honey harvesting, and global quality testing. The book also explores how honey as a functional food can optimize health, enhance nutrition, and aid in healing certain diseases. With a special emphasis on medical-grade honey and it pharmacological importance, readers will gain insights into honey's bioavailability and the benefits of its antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, and antiaging properties. The book also highlights honey's effectiveness in fighting certain respiratory diseases, viral infections such as Covid-19, diabetes, allergies, skin, periodontal diseases, and more.
Brief description:
Dr. Younis Ahmad Hajam holds a doctorate in Zoology from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidayalaya (A Central University), in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences and Allied Health Sciences, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, Punjab, India. Formerly Dr Younis Ahmad worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Career Point University, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is teaching undergraduate and post graduate and doctorate students. His areas of interests include chronic diseases and their management. He has published 50 research papers in leading national and international journals, 50 book chapters and 10 national proceedings and has published 8 books as an editor in Springer, Apple Academic Press, NOVA Science Publishers, Taylor and Francis. He has received a national award for his contributions in biological science and is an editorial member of various international journals and a member of Asian Council of Science editors.