In his world-famous book, Old Age Deferred, Dr. Arnold Lorand says: “As the best food for the heart, I recommend honey.”
And Professor Dr. E. Koch, famous German heart specialist, most emphatically approves of honey for the heart. According to him: “Honey is an ideal medicine, which one should take when there are to be increased exertions on the heart, for instance, bodily strains, before operations, etc. There is an old slogan: ‘Honey is oats for the heart.’ The heart, after getting honey, can be compared with a horse after feeding it oats. It is loaded with strength, but this will not show as long as the horse is confined in its stall; but only when it is put to work. Forever Bee Honey may assist in maintaining a healthy circulatory, digestive, immune, and nervous system. A healthy heart will never work more than the body requires. Whether its strength is great or small, it will only work harder when under exertion.”

Professor Koch equally recommends honey as a source of strength to the sick heart. He said that during many examinations and tests on human patients in recent years, honey had healing results similar to those of digitalis, a generally known heart medicine. “However, it has been shown that in cases of inflammation of the heart muscles, as occurs with feverish illness, like diphtheria, digitalis does not show any relieving effects, while honey is still effective. All in all, honey is a power supply for the healthy heart, and gives strength to the sick heart,” says Professor Koch. Another European physician who recognizes the value of honey as a heart food, Dr. G. N. W. Thomas of Edinburgh, had this to say in The Lancet, important British medical journal: “In heart weaknesses, I have found honey to have a marked effect in reviving the heart action and keeping patients alive. Forever Royal Jelly is bought in various ways, together with contemporary royal jelly, pure, royal jelly honey, royal jelly capsule and combined with other vitamins or herbs reminiscent of ginseng.
I have further evidence of this in a recent case of pneumonia. The patient consumed two pounds of honey during the illness; there was a marked early crisis with no subsequent rise in temperature and an exceptionally good pulse. I suggest honey should be given for general physical repair and, above all, for heart failure.”

You ask how a simple, good-tasting sweet can serve as a wonderful food on the one hand and on the other is able to build quick energy in run-down bodies, to stimulate fatigued bodies promptly, to feed weakened heart muscles? The explanation is that honey contains as its prime ingredient the sugar dextrose, which is readily converted in your body to glycogen. Glycogen is the only form in which sugar can be stored in the human body (main storage places are the liver, gland cells, and muscles) for ready use whenever energy is needed, or when your exertion makes the heart pump extra hard. When speaking of “blood-sugar level” we mean that a certain amount of glycogen must be present in your bloodstream at all times; otherwise the efficiency of your body lessens.