FROM THE ANCIENT HEALING ISLAND OF IKARIA

"WHERE PEOPLE FORGET TO DIE"

Ikaria Honey is of particularly high quality and is revered by the famously long-lived Ikarians, who believe it has special healing properties and consume it daily.

This very rare honey, perhaps the best in the world, is 100% pure, natural, unheated and unpasteurized. Its special characteristics are a function of the unique environment in which the indigenous bees gather their pollen.

Ikaria is free from industrialization and due its mountainous and undulating rocky terrain, conventional farming is not practiced. The island is therefore free from chemical pollutants that contaminate both air, land and water, leaving the bees to gather their pollen in a pristine, if not perfect, environment. Through laborious effort, the hives are placed in hard to reach areas throughout the hills and mountains where the bees feed on pollen from the Ikarian pines and a broad range of wild flowers and native flora.

Following a fascinating NY Times article on Ikaria the island has received significant noteriety in recent years due to the superior health and longevity of its inhabitants. The Ikarians, on average, outlive just about everyone else in the world and with meaningfully lower incidence of age related disease.

Research organized by Blue Zone expert Dan Buettner, and funded by National Geographic and AARP, found that 1 in 3 Ikarians reach the age of 90 compared to 1 in 9 in the US, with half the rate of heart disease, one ninth the rate of diabetes and 20 percent fewer cases of cancer. Dan Buettner is athor of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest, wherin he explores Ikaria and other places in the world, where longevity is the norm.

What was most astonishing to Mr. Buettner and his team was that "among the Islanders over 90 there was virtually no Alzhiemer's disease or other forms of demential. In the United States more than 40 percent of people over 90 suffer some form of this devastating ailment"