Biography
Biography: Hesham El-Seedia
Abstract
Abstract
Statement of the Problem: According to the World Health Organization, two billion people will be aged 60 years or older by 2050. Aging is a major risk factor for a number of neurodegenerative disorders. These age-related disorders currently represent one of the most important and challenging health problems have impact on the economic and social. Therefore, much attention has been directed towards the design and development of neuroprotective agents derived from natural sources.
The honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) have several products, including honey, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom, and bee pollen. Bee products meet the criteria of being natural products that have long-recognized medicinal properties. Historically, bee products nutritional and medicinal values have been considered for thousands of years by Ancient Egyptian, Persians, Romans and Chinese in supplementary nutrition and alternative diets. Bee products are often sold as nutritional supplements and/or health products, and with potential anticancer, antimicrobial activities, antioxidant, anti-nociceptive, and anti-inflammatory. Bee products polyphenols have neuroprotective actions via quench biological reactive oxygen species that cause neurotoxicity and aging as well as the pathological deposition of misfolded proteins, such as amyloid beta.