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[–] null 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard that eating local honey similarly lowers your allergy response to local pollen, and I believed that, so I'll believe this too.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a myth. For a start most people's hayfever isn't anything to do with flower pollen, it's grass and tree pollen and fungal spores. Pollen and spores can be carried by air currents and travel long distances. The flowers your local honey comes from are unlikely to be causing your hayfever. You should buy local honey over commercial honey though because it supports small producers.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you just need to find grass, tree, and fungal honey then to make it work. Easy peasy.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Someone, somewhere, is definitely making fungal honey. But I think it might be an STD.

[–] null 1 points 1 year ago

I knew the bees were telling me lies!