If you suffer insomnia, feel anxious, have chronic pain or have been diagnosed with any of a host of other ailments, you may have heard that “Botanical Extract is good for that.” You did some research and bought a Botanical Extract product, but how do you know exactly what dose you should use? 

Botanical Extract Oil is an extract from special plants that is taking the health and beauty world by storm. Preliminary research suggests that because of its anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects it may support those suffering from addictions, Alzheimers, concussion, fibromyalgia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders and many other conditions.

But this potentially useful supplement does not come with one-size-fits-all dosing recommendations. In fact, you will have to use a little trial and error to find your right dose. These guidelines will help you do just that.

Start low and go slow 

This will be your motto as you find your optimal Botanical Extract dose. As you begin, you should make sure you tolerate it well before working your way up to a dose that relieves your unique symptoms.

This process is called microdosing or self-titration, both of which mean you are in charge of finding the lowest effective dose for you. 

Registered nurse and medical botanical extract compounds expert Eileen Konieczny, in her book, Healing with Botanical Extract, recommends starting with a microdose of 10 mg, or even dividing that into two or three doses in the course of a day. After a few days or a week at this level, she says, you can gradually increase the dose by five to 10 milligrams at a time. 

Konieczny and others recommend this process of slowly raising the dose while keeping notes on your symptoms in a journal so that you can monitor the extract’s effectiveness. Apps such as Strainprint and Releaf can help with symptom tracking. 

Know your product 

One of the challenges of finding the right dose for you is knowing exactly how much Botanical Extract is in the product you bought, and how much is in each dose of that product.

Tinctures are perfect for microdosing because they allow you to slowly increase your dose in a way that edibles and capsules do not. Starting with a tincture, especially taking it sublingually (under the tongue), is a good way to understand how Botanical Extract affects you and what a good dose will be for you. 

Look on the product label for the total milligrams (mg) Botanical Extract in the container and per dose in the supplement facts table. Make sure you don’t get your units confused here: milliliters (ml) measure the volume of a liquid while milligrams tell you the weight of the extract that was dissolved into the liquid of the tincture. If you have purchased a tincture and feel like you’ve taken on the world’s worst math problem, this may help.

• Most (though not all) tincture bottles are one ounce, or 30 milliliters (ml)
• The standard dropper size is 1 ml
• If your bottle contains 500 mg Botanical Extract, each dropper contains just under 17 mg extract
• To start at 10 mg, you will need about 12 drops from that dropper.
  

You can increase by as little as one drop at a time as you self-titrate to find the “sweet spot” for you.

The sweet spot 

The right dose gives you the effect you want using the lowest possible amount. At this dose you will start feeling the benefit from what you are taking, but are unlikely to experience any side effects (Botanical Extract has almost no reported adverse effects, however your results may vary). Taking the time to find this minimum effective dose, even with all the math and symptom tracking involved, also saves you money as you take only as much as you need.

Once you find a dose that feels like it’s working, bear in mind that your body is a dynamic system and changes in sensitivity may occur. Ongoing daily or intermittent symptom tracking will help you know when to adjust your dose.

Lastly, don’t hesitate to take a low dose of Botanical Extract for maintenance purposes. Integrative medicine practitioner and medical botanical extract expert Dr. Dustin Sulak says doing this can be an effective long-term approach to healing. “Over time,” he says, “I began to notice that most patients using small amounts of compounds (extracted from these plants) were getting better and more sustainable results than their high-dosage counterparts with similar conditions.” 

By choosing a high-quality, clearly labeled product and using the microdosing approach experts recommend, you are giving yourself the best odds of experiencing a higher level of well being with the support of Botanical Extract.

Beezy Beez Botanical Extract products are packed with natural, organic and powerful ingredients. They are available and sold on the Beezy Beez website, starting at $24.95

The Beezy Beez products are lab certified to contain the products we claim and to have the potency of a true Botanical Extract product. Beezy Beez Botanical Extract Honey, a #superfood  is digested through the stomach, which means it takes longer to take effect, but stays in the system longer - making it a powerful product to take about an hour before sleep; Beezy Beez Botanical Extract Oil, containing not just the isolate, but a full flora of botanical extracts making it of the highest quality and potency available on the market; Beezy Beez Balm, composed of so many powerful natural ingredients, than any one of them can be a powerhouse on its own. Used by professional UFC fighters and regular people alike, this balm is used as a topical to deliver the "return to normalcy" from the aches and pains that are draining your energy and focus every day. Bringing 'being' back into human.

For seven years, Igor Yakovlev made a living as an urban beekeeper selling his honey at local farmer’s markets and independent stores in New York and New Jersey.

“I got into the business because I was always interested in honeybees and helping people and the environment,” he says, noting that, “seventy-percent of our ecosystem is pollinated by honeybees” and touting the health benefits of honey.

 “I started doing research,” he says, adding that he was inspired to find a way to up the healing properties of his products by infusing them with botanical extract oil.  “I thought, what if I could make my honey a #supersuperfood”, he says.

Next, Yakovlev had to master the process of getting the honey just right and making their product stand out from competitors. “Beezy Beez is special because we use a special process where we cream the honey, which many other companies do not do,” Yakovlev says.

This is a combination of liquid and crystalized honey placed into a machine and spun for two days before the extract is added. This process, according to Boris, also helps to ensure that consumers are getting an even distribution of Botanical Extract with each serving.

In addition to its cinnamon-flavored Creamed Honey, Beezy Beez also offers a Botanical Extract honeycomb “straight from the hive,” as well as pain-relieving Balm.

“We use our own harvested honey for those. They are our staple,” Yakovlev says, the latter of which has been popular among athletes and UFC fighters.

Floyd Mayweather’s personal bodyguards, for instance, have written in to rave about reduced joint pain and deeper sleep as a result of the products. Beezy Beez's catalog also includes botanical extract lip balm, and water-soluble oil tinctures.

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