Eating tougher foods will sculpt your face, mastic gum takes this to the next level.
Additionally, mastic gum is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fiat which helps to clean up your gut. So it makes sense why in Ancient Greece it was believed you would become more beautiful as you chewed it.
Is this perhaps propolis? I chew every day and it is amazing.
It’s a tree resin from a special tree in Chios (island of Greece). I’ve tried honey, bee pollen, and royal jelly, but never propolis. Briefly reading about it, it might not be a half bad idea to try to mix the two.
Mastic gum can last for weeks before crumbling, not sure if that’s the case for propolis.
Propolis nevah goes bad, disintegrates, loses its properties. I will read about mastic gum, too. Thanks for the feedback. Always learning, ever growing.
Hmmm maybe another in a long list of examples of “animal”-based products being superior to plant-based. Of course, my friend🤙🏽
Egyptians used it for embalming. It is a preservative, antioxidant, antibacterial, anti inflammatory; so many benefits. The bees make it from resins of plants, pollen, beeswax. If a creature invades the hive, and the fastidious bees cannot drag it out (say, a mouse dies in the hive), the bees completely cover it in propolis. This is a way to keep the “ill humors” from damaging the brood, workers, queen, beeswax, and honey. Fascinating!
Wow, that’s pretty incredible. I know they have it at Whole Foods, but I’ll have to see if my local apiarist has some for sale!
I agree that mastic gum is very beneficial. It sounds so like propolis. The latter is extremely expensive, so, if you don’t absolutely have to have it, you’re prolly fine with the mastic. I also use a tincture as well as chewing it like gum. But I have pounds and pounds, as a beekeeper.
