THE BEST HONEY IN THE WORLD IS FROM COSTA RICA
After years of research, Gabriel Zamora, a researcher at Cinat-UNA and scientists at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, discovered in Mariola Honey, proteins capable of destroying colonies of bacteria that common antibiotics can’t fight.
Zamora, coordinator of the Microbiology and Medicinal Chemistry Program of the Tropical Beekeeping Research Center of the National University (Cinat-UNA), indicated that "we started to see that the bacteria no longer eat the antibiotic, but on the contrary, develop a protective strategy, for this they are organized in a biofilm ".
According to Zamora, biofilm is the way in which bacteria and other microorganisms live on our planet, "small communities" where they communicate, feed, reproduce and die.
"They create a strength at different levels, some adhere to the biofilm, others are suspended within the biofilm and some others migrate to create new biofilms. The antibiotic works if the bacteria behave in the same way, but in this community each one is different and that’s when the medicine loses its effectiveness, "he added.