In 2025, A. Al Tamim and a team from King Saud University studied Wistar rats on a high-fat diet to mimic obesity. They gave groups standard chow or high-fat diet, with or without daily Sidr or Talh honey at 500-1,000 mg/kg for 12 weeks, checking weight, blood sugar, hormones, and brain inflammation in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus.

In 2025, María D. Navarro-Hortal and her team from the University of Granada reviewed many studies on how honey helps with Alzheimer's disease, a brain problem that causes memory loss and confusion. They looked at honey's natural compounds like flavonoids and polyphenols, found in raw honey from bees, and how they fight harmful changes in the brain.