August 23, 2025 • 12 mins
Tony Pilato is the visionary co-founder of Ulmo Honey, a premium raw and bioactive medicinal honey sustainably sourced from Chilean Patagonia. Take a listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to introduce you to someone else and a
(00:02):
product you might be curious about. I want to welcome
to the program Tony Pilato. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi Niel, Hi everybody. Thank you so much for having
me over.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What a pleasure, All the pleasure is mine. You know,
I'm curious about this. Tell us about your honey, what
what makes it different and how you got into this yourself?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, of course, So starting with the honey. So it's
called Umo honey. It's medicinal honey from the pristine Chilean Patagonia,
So from the southern part of Chile in a very
remote and pristine location. And yeah, it comes from the
nexter of the Umo tree, which blooms only for a
few short weeks in the year and creates this incredible
(00:49):
honey that's been attracting the fantastic community. Now for its benefits.
And how did I get into it? Always been a
dream for me to get into the health world. Implements
nutrition and a big span of all things nutrition. And
I want to get into this world and do things
(01:10):
the right way, you know, check all the boxes that
other companies don't. And honey was a single product that
could start with. And it's something that I love. And yeah,
here I am.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know a lot of people, I have a font
of totally useless knowledge in my head all the time.
I love and am interested in many things. And something
I learned a long time ago was about the power
of the anti bacterial properties of honey. Now real honey,
not the syrupy garbage that might come in the shape
(01:41):
of an animal, but the real stuff. And how even
you know, the military would teach, you know, gunshot wounds
or things like that, that you could use the heated
honey of course to use to help wounds, heal wounds,
and it can protect them. So absolutely, not being a doctor,
I'm assuming you're not one either. What are some of
(02:04):
these prop the health benefits that you're talking about with
your honey?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Right, So, honey is an incredible worker of nature that's
definitely overlooked.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
At All honeys have medicinal properties.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's just unfortunately not all honeys are created equal. Like
you said, a lot of the honeys nowadays that are
sold in supermarket has been heat treated, microfiltered. It's been
a lot of the times cut with other cheaper syrups.
In fact, honey is one of the most adulttered foods
in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Believe it or not, it's very sad and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, unfortunately this takes away a lot of the benefits
of honey. You know, there's no such other thing in
nature that nature produces like honey.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's it's really the king of super food.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know. It's a natural anti antibiotic and it's it's
just another class of honey. For example, you have Manuka
for those of you that are familiar with honey's and
medicinal honey. Manuka is an incredible honey with a lot
of scientific backing from New Zealand for those of you
that are not familiar with it, and New Zealand did
(03:06):
an incredible job at getting it out there and letting
people know about the benefits of honey. But there's just
something that is lesser known and more powerful and that's
Umo honey. So for the benefits, UMO honey is like
a nectar of many different bioactive compounds that come from
the Umo tree. Antioxidants that promote health in our bodies,
(03:31):
promote anti inflammatory action, takes away free radicals, it can
it has an antibacterial property that's also been scientifically shown
to be stronger or equal to manuca, depending on the strain.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And you can put it on wounds that you said.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It helps healing because it has its antibacterial properties, so
it kills out bacterial it gives It has antioccidant which
promotes reduced inflammation, so it definitely helps with wounds. Also
for your stomach, your whole guts. It's an incredible boost
for your your digestive system. I I like to have
(04:09):
it first thing in the morning. It's very soothing for
the stomach. I'm that type of person that you used
to drink black coffee first thing in the morning, and
you know now it's starting to bother me. So I
have a spoon of honey before and it just soothes
your gut. It's incredible for that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So you take it as almost like a supplement. Then
you start your more ike it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This right, This honey is not the honey you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Want to use to as a as a regular honey
to sweet up your teas and coffees. Yes you can,
of course, you just want to make sure that it's
at a temperature that you could drink it, that you
can put it in your mouth and won't burn you
usually they say seventy degrees. You're not going to sit
there with a thermometer to measure the temperature.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
By any any anything that you know that is cool
enough for you to to.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Ingest it, because otherwise, when you start to heat it,
heat up the honey, you start to lose all the
bioactive compounds that are an official for the health.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So it's kind of counter productive.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The way I like it is to have, you know,
a spoon straight from the jar in the morning or
whenever I need a little pick me up. And yeah,
it's a It's an incredible thing to add to your
to your supplement stack right now, especially with the change
of seasons.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You know, it gives you a little help boosts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Also for for kids right now, you know, it's a
back to school time and a lot of a lot
of germs. People are exposed to more germs, and it's
great for kids as well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Especially for the taste.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's another thing that makes it stand out in comparison
to Manuka. Manuka has a more earthy, a medicinal flavor.
Umo is very sweet and smooth. It's definitely more palatable
than Manuka. It has almost like floral hints of jasmine.
I'd say you got to try it on your own
(05:52):
because it's an incredible honey.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's so smooth and delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And if you're into manuka or you know, you're like
super food and you want to add something to your
supplement stack, Ulmo honey is incredible and you can, you know,
use it to replace it other sugars that you use
because it's it contains a lot of incredible compounds that
boost your health.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right now, my guest is Tony Plato. As we talk
about ULM honey, you can find out more at U
L m ohney dot com is their website. Same on
Instagram as well. So Tony, whenever you know, I love
good food. I do believe that food is medicinal and
always has been in its most perfect state. We talked
(06:40):
about honey earlier. Sugar is sugar is sugar, and there
you know, you still have to keep added sugars to
a minimum and all of those things. But yes, of
course food is good. Food is good for you, Nutrients
are good for you. But when people start making medical claims,
I get a little nervous. So what kind of claims,
(07:03):
what kind of studies have been done? Is there any
FDA control when it comes to honey as used as
a in this case not medicinally per se, but sort
of it's on the edge of that. So, so what
kind of studies have been done?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Right, So, there's been studied for the last thirty years
actually on UMO honey, and we created a compilation that
we can find.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
On our websites basically that compiles all those.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Studies into one easier to read documents.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There's research from all over the world. A lot of it,
of course comes from Chile. And as far as claims.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
There's not going to be any like FDA approved claims
because it's not really it's not a medicine in that sense.
You could treat it more of like a supplement.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean, it's been scientifically shown to have antibacterial activity.
It helps boost wound healing through its antibacterial antioxidant activity
because of those antioxidan and it helps also you know
with inflammation within the body. It takes away of free
radicals and reactive molecules in your body that cause harm. Yeah,
(08:25):
there's a limited amount of study on its anti cancer effects.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's not really much yet. But this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know, for Umo, it's really not really known right
now in the in the health world, and this is
what we're trying to do to really get it out
there because it's it's been scientifically shown to be stronger
than Manuca, and Manuka has an incredible.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's been it's you.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Know, most people that are into Honey will know about
Manuca because they really feel the difference. And you you've
got to try Umo honey as well and see for yourself.
I wish I could send you a jar right now
so you could try it live.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Right right on the air.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I am very curious about it because I see there's
even a place for the science on the website, which
I like breaking down those things. But you know, we've
talked about on the show many times before there's a
difference between good sound reasoning and reasons that sound good.
So it's kind of my job, my thing to always
ask the questions that I think the audience wants to know.
(09:26):
I'm very curious about it because I do know some
of those healing properties and have done them for some
time that come out of honey. In this particular case,
are you dealing with a particular type of bee or
is it just that the bee and the interaction with
certain trees in the area create this particular.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Honey, right, So it's it's a regular European honeybees that
are collecting the nettor it's just that our honey, specifically, specifically,
our honey is ninety seven percent monofloral. So we test,
we send our lab and we sent our honey to
a law that measures the pollen content so it can
determine how much of the specific flower is in the honey.
(10:07):
So ours has an unprecedented number, its ninety seven percent,
which means that ninety seven percent of the nectar that's
in this honey has been collected from the Umo tree
and the Umu tree for over the last thirty years.
That said, has been subject to scientific studies and it's
been shown to be superior. It's nectar has been shown
to be superior contain more antioxident and beneficial plant compounds
that end up in the honey. So, like I said,
(10:30):
there's other honeys you know around the world that are
known to be in medicinal grease for example, has incredible
honeys like heather honey has great properties. Again Manuka and
then there's honey, and then there's umo honey, which you
know has been compared to other honeys in clinical studies,
and it's just like it's been shown to be stronger
(10:52):
than manuca, which as of now has been kind of
like the standard for medicinal honey.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Gotcha, So this point this we you know, something I've
learned that I think is very important for people to
understand is sometimes oftentimes when you heat things up, you
can destroy the nutrients in them. And in this particular case,
that's one of the reasons why you take it as
is and you're not putting it in your coffee or
you're not putting it in anything that's going to raise
(11:20):
the temperature past seventy degrees, I think is what you've said,
So you're not destroying any of those properties that are beneficial.
You know, we often talk People will talk about, you know,
back in the day, you'd have some warm milk at
night or something like that, and little do they know,
the natural parts of milk that make you tired are
(11:41):
actually ruined when you heat them. So AnyWho, I appreciate
you taking the time to come on. We're up against
the clock, Tony Plato. You can find out more at
ulmo Honey dot com. That's U L m O Honey
dot com and you can do your your research yourself there.
But I appreciate you taking time to enlighten us a
little bit on this. I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So much pleasure.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Thank you so much for having me over And like
you said, you can find us at um mohney dot com.
We're also available on Amazon, and right now, because of
the change of season and back to school, we're having
a sale.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You can go on our website and use.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The code more Powerful than Manuka and score you a
twenty percent off if you want to try it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
All right, thanks so much for your time, no my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
On your weekends. Enjoy you as well,
I want to introduce you to someone else and a
(00:02):
product you might be curious about. I want to welcome
to the program Tony Pilato. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi Niel, Hi everybody. Thank you so much for having
me over.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What a pleasure, All the pleasure is mine. You know,
I'm curious about this. Tell us about your honey, what
what makes it different and how you got into this yourself?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, of course, So starting with the honey. So it's
called Umo honey. It's medicinal honey from the pristine Chilean Patagonia,
So from the southern part of Chile in a very
remote and pristine location. And yeah, it comes from the
nexter of the Umo tree, which blooms only for a
few short weeks in the year and creates this incredible
(00:49):
honey that's been attracting the fantastic community. Now for its benefits.
And how did I get into it? Always been a
dream for me to get into the health world. Implements
nutrition and a big span of all things nutrition. And
I want to get into this world and do things
(01:10):
the right way, you know, check all the boxes that
other companies don't. And honey was a single product that
could start with. And it's something that I love. And yeah,
here I am.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know a lot of people, I have a font
of totally useless knowledge in my head all the time.
I love and am interested in many things. And something
I learned a long time ago was about the power
of the anti bacterial properties of honey. Now real honey,
not the syrupy garbage that might come in the shape
(01:41):
of an animal, but the real stuff. And how even
you know, the military would teach, you know, gunshot wounds
or things like that, that you could use the heated
honey of course to use to help wounds, heal wounds,
and it can protect them. So absolutely, not being a doctor,
I'm assuming you're not one either. What are some of
(02:04):
these prop the health benefits that you're talking about with
your honey?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Right, So, honey is an incredible worker of nature that's
definitely overlooked.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
At All honeys have medicinal properties.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's just unfortunately not all honeys are created equal. Like
you said, a lot of the honeys nowadays that are
sold in supermarket has been heat treated, microfiltered. It's been
a lot of the times cut with other cheaper syrups.
In fact, honey is one of the most adulttered foods
in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Believe it or not, it's very sad and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, unfortunately this takes away a lot of the benefits
of honey. You know, there's no such other thing in
nature that nature produces like honey.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's it's really the king of super food.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know. It's a natural anti antibiotic and it's it's
just another class of honey. For example, you have Manuka
for those of you that are familiar with honey's and
medicinal honey. Manuka is an incredible honey with a lot
of scientific backing from New Zealand for those of you
that are not familiar with it, and New Zealand did
(03:06):
an incredible job at getting it out there and letting
people know about the benefits of honey. But there's just
something that is lesser known and more powerful and that's
Umo honey. So for the benefits, UMO honey is like
a nectar of many different bioactive compounds that come from
the Umo tree. Antioxidants that promote health in our bodies,
(03:31):
promote anti inflammatory action, takes away free radicals, it can
it has an antibacterial property that's also been scientifically shown
to be stronger or equal to manuca, depending on the strain.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And you can put it on wounds that you said.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It helps healing because it has its antibacterial properties, so
it kills out bacterial it gives It has antioccidant which
promotes reduced inflammation, so it definitely helps with wounds. Also
for your stomach, your whole guts. It's an incredible boost
for your your digestive system. I I like to have
(04:09):
it first thing in the morning. It's very soothing for
the stomach. I'm that type of person that you used
to drink black coffee first thing in the morning, and
you know now it's starting to bother me. So I
have a spoon of honey before and it just soothes
your gut. It's incredible for that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So you take it as almost like a supplement. Then
you start your more ike it.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This right, This honey is not the honey you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Want to use to as a as a regular honey
to sweet up your teas and coffees. Yes you can,
of course, you just want to make sure that it's
at a temperature that you could drink it, that you
can put it in your mouth and won't burn you
usually they say seventy degrees. You're not going to sit
there with a thermometer to measure the temperature.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
By any any anything that you know that is cool
enough for you to to.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Ingest it, because otherwise, when you start to heat it,
heat up the honey, you start to lose all the
bioactive compounds that are an official for the health.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So it's kind of counter productive.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The way I like it is to have, you know,
a spoon straight from the jar in the morning or
whenever I need a little pick me up. And yeah,
it's a It's an incredible thing to add to your
to your supplement stack right now, especially with the change
of seasons.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You know, it gives you a little help boosts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Also for for kids right now, you know, it's a
back to school time and a lot of a lot
of germs. People are exposed to more germs, and it's
great for kids as well.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Especially for the taste.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's another thing that makes it stand out in comparison
to Manuka. Manuka has a more earthy, a medicinal flavor.
Umo is very sweet and smooth. It's definitely more palatable
than Manuka. It has almost like floral hints of jasmine.
I'd say you got to try it on your own
(05:52):
because it's an incredible honey.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's so smooth and delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And if you're into manuka or you know, you're like
super food and you want to add something to your
supplement stack, Ulmo honey is incredible and you can, you know,
use it to replace it other sugars that you use
because it's it contains a lot of incredible compounds that
boost your health.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right now, my guest is Tony Plato. As we talk
about ULM honey, you can find out more at U
L m ohney dot com is their website. Same on
Instagram as well. So Tony, whenever you know, I love
good food. I do believe that food is medicinal and
always has been in its most perfect state. We talked
(06:40):
about honey earlier. Sugar is sugar is sugar, and there
you know, you still have to keep added sugars to
a minimum and all of those things. But yes, of
course food is good. Food is good for you, Nutrients
are good for you. But when people start making medical claims,
I get a little nervous. So what kind of claims,
(07:03):
what kind of studies have been done? Is there any
FDA control when it comes to honey as used as
a in this case not medicinally per se, but sort
of it's on the edge of that. So, so what
kind of studies have been done?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Right, So, there's been studied for the last thirty years
actually on UMO honey, and we created a compilation that
we can find.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
On our websites basically that compiles all those.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Studies into one easier to read documents.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There's research from all over the world. A lot of it,
of course comes from Chile. And as far as claims.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
There's not going to be any like FDA approved claims
because it's not really it's not a medicine in that sense.
You could treat it more of like a supplement.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I mean, it's been scientifically shown to have antibacterial activity.
It helps boost wound healing through its antibacterial antioxidant activity
because of those antioxidan and it helps also you know
with inflammation within the body. It takes away of free
radicals and reactive molecules in your body that cause harm. Yeah,
(08:25):
there's a limited amount of study on its anti cancer effects.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's not really much yet. But this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know, for Umo, it's really not really known right
now in the in the health world, and this is
what we're trying to do to really get it out
there because it's it's been scientifically shown to be stronger
than Manuca, and Manuka has an incredible.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's been it's you.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Know, most people that are into Honey will know about
Manuca because they really feel the difference. And you you've
got to try Umo honey as well and see for yourself.
I wish I could send you a jar right now
so you could try it live.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Right right on the air.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I am very curious about it because I see there's
even a place for the science on the website, which
I like breaking down those things. But you know, we've
talked about on the show many times before there's a
difference between good sound reasoning and reasons that sound good.
So it's kind of my job, my thing to always
ask the questions that I think the audience wants to know.
(09:26):
I'm very curious about it because I do know some
of those healing properties and have done them for some
time that come out of honey. In this particular case,
are you dealing with a particular type of bee or
is it just that the bee and the interaction with
certain trees in the area create this particular.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Honey, right, So it's it's a regular European honeybees that
are collecting the nettor it's just that our honey, specifically, specifically,
our honey is ninety seven percent monofloral. So we test,
we send our lab and we sent our honey to
a law that measures the pollen content so it can
determine how much of the specific flower is in the honey.
(10:07):
So ours has an unprecedented number, its ninety seven percent,
which means that ninety seven percent of the nectar that's
in this honey has been collected from the Umo tree
and the Umu tree for over the last thirty years.
That said, has been subject to scientific studies and it's
been shown to be superior. It's nectar has been shown
to be superior contain more antioxident and beneficial plant compounds
that end up in the honey. So, like I said,
(10:30):
there's other honeys you know around the world that are
known to be in medicinal grease for example, has incredible
honeys like heather honey has great properties. Again Manuka and
then there's honey, and then there's umo honey, which you
know has been compared to other honeys in clinical studies,
and it's just like it's been shown to be stronger
(10:52):
than manuca, which as of now has been kind of
like the standard for medicinal honey.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Gotcha, So this point this we you know, something I've
learned that I think is very important for people to
understand is sometimes oftentimes when you heat things up, you
can destroy the nutrients in them. And in this particular case,
that's one of the reasons why you take it as
is and you're not putting it in your coffee or
you're not putting it in anything that's going to raise
(11:20):
the temperature past seventy degrees, I think is what you've said,
So you're not destroying any of those properties that are beneficial.
You know, we often talk People will talk about, you know,
back in the day, you'd have some warm milk at
night or something like that, and little do they know,
the natural parts of milk that make you tired are
(11:41):
actually ruined when you heat them. So AnyWho, I appreciate
you taking the time to come on. We're up against
the clock, Tony Plato. You can find out more at
ulmo Honey dot com. That's U L m O Honey
dot com and you can do your your research yourself there.
But I appreciate you taking time to enlighten us a
little bit on this. I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So much pleasure.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Thank you so much for having me over And like
you said, you can find us at um mohney dot com.
We're also available on Amazon, and right now, because of
the change of season and back to school, we're having
a sale.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You can go on our website and use.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The code more Powerful than Manuka and score you a
twenty percent off if you want to try it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
All right, thanks so much for your time, no my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
On your weekends. Enjoy you as well,
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