ergo-log.com

Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "

about us

/

contact

/

08.04.2014

Drone milk: boosts testosterone and has an anabolic effect too

Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.
Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.

Drone milk is not the same as Royal Jelly. Honeybees make Royal Jelly as a special nutrient for the queen bees, but give drone milk to worker bees, or drones. Drones are male and one of their tasks is to provide the sperm to fertilize the queen's eggs.


Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.


Drone Milk is available as a supplement on the market. The Russian company Apidom produces Frozen Drone Larvae Royal Jelly; the Romanian Biofarm manufactures Apilranil Potent. The Hungarians used fresh drone milk for their experiments, which they had obtained from a professional beekeeper.

The researchers gave castrated rats 11, 110 or 1100 mg drone milk per kg bodyweight for 10 days, and discovered that the 110 mg dose had androgenic and anabolic effects. The human equivalent of this dose would be 17.8 mg per kg bodyweight. So if you weigh 80 kg, you'd need about 1420 mg fresh drone milk daily.

Drone milk [DM] caused the rats' penis to grow and increased the weight of their levator ani muscle, both indications of anabolic and androgenic effects. Synthetic testosterone [T] worked better than drone milk, and the anti-androgen flutamide [F] negated the effects of drone milk.


Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.


Drone milk had an indirect effect. It boosted the concentration of testosterone.


Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.


The researchers identified two fatty acid esters in drone milk: methyl palmitate [first structural formula below] and methyl oleate [second structural formula below]. When they gave these substances to their rats, the researchers noticed that 25 microgr methyl palmitate [MP] per kg bodyweight had an anabolic effect and caused growth of the levator ani.


Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.



Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possible that drone milk actually works, researchers at the University of Szeged in Hungary write in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. According to their animal studies, drone milk has anabolic and androgenic properties.


Methyl Oleate
They only observed androgenic effects when the rats were given both methyl palmitate and methyl oleate [C]. This combination also raised the rats' testosterone level.

The researchers suspect that methyl palmitate and methyl oleate stimulate the production of DHEA in the adrenal glands. This hormone can then be converted into testosterone. Flutamide not only blocks the testosterone receptor but also inhibits the enzymes that are involved in the biosynthesis of DHEA. This would explain why flutamide cancels out the anabolic and androgenic effects of drone milk.

Source:
J Ethnopharmacol. 2014 Mar 6. pii: S0378-8741(14)00176-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.02.050. [Epub ahead of print].

More:
Royal Jelly: more testosterone and red blood cells 28.10.2012
A little bit of Royal Jelly increases testosterone level by 20 percent 16.08.2012
Anti-ageing effect of Royal Jelly boosts testosterone 08.04.2011