🍯 Bee Remedy Dose Lab

About this simulation

Honey, propolis, royal jelly, pollen and bee venom each carry genuinely bioactive compounds — but "natural" is not a safety guarantee, and traditional use is not the same as clinical proof. This lab visualises the idea that runs through the article: every remedy has a dose-response curve, a point where more stops helping, and — for some products — a real allergy or anaphylaxis risk that gets worse with sensitisation, not better.

How it works

• The honeycomb glows with the selected product's colour; particles stream from it toward a simplified body figure, representing exposure.
• The floating graph plots a benefit curve (teal) and a risk curve (red) against dose, shaded green/amber/red for safe, caution and excess zones.
• A bead marker sits on the curve at your current dose — watch it cross from the green zone into amber and red as you raise the slider.
• Raising sensitivity shifts the safe window left, modelling how allergy-prone individuals (especially with propolis, pollen and venom) react at lower doses.
• The Heated / processed toggle degrades heat-sensitive enzymes and bioactives (this matters most for raw honey, whose enzymes like invertase and glucose oxidase denature with heat).

Controls

• Product — switch between honey, propolis, royal jelly, pollen and venom; each has a different safe window and risk curve shape.
• Dose — a relative 0–100 exposure scale, not a real medical dosage.
• Sensitivity — models individual allergy predisposition.
• Raw / Heated — toggles whether heat-sensitive bioactives are intact or degraded.
• Auto-rotate — toggles slow camera orbit. Drag to rotate manually, scroll to zoom.

Did you know?

Bee venom has by far the narrowest safe window of the five: the same compounds under study for anti-inflammatory effects (melittin, apamin) are also exactly what triggers anaphylaxis in venom-allergic people, which is why any venom-based therapy needs medical supervision, not self-experimentation.