But don't get grossed out. The good news is, that in common cases, it’s more than possible to encourage gut health, and to replace missing healthy bacteria. It’s even easy. It’s about eating pre-biotic foods regularly, to help maintain a high level of healthful bacteria.
This review of existing studies on eating beeswax or honeycomb showed an antimicrobic effect of beeswax against Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella enterica, Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger: "these inhibitory effects are enhanced synergistically with other natural products such as honey or olive oil."
And like Kombucha, the origins of the "mother" substance are lost in ancient history. Legend has it that Mohammed himself gifted the nomad community with the yellowish-white kefir culture "grains," and taught them how to ferment milk with them. We posted about black cumin, another legendary gift from Mohammed, here.