Begin your day by refreshing and re-hydrating your body, which in turn will keep your skin healthy and rid your body of toxins.
There are many health benefits to starting your day off with a glass of warm lemon water. Lemons are an alkalizing power food even though they are acidic to the taste. This makes them perfect for preventing and treating highly acidic conditions in the body.
“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons.” –Alfred E. Newman
What are the health benefits gained from drinking Lemon juice in the morning?
Aids the digestion
Warm water helps to stimulate the GI tract. Lemon purifies and stimulates the liver and assists the digestive acids with digestion and elimination.
Supports the Immune System
Citrus fruits are high in vitamin C and ascorbic acid. Vitamin C is great for combating colds and ascorbic acid helps with iron absorption, which plays a role in immune function.
Alkalizes the body
If you suffer from a chronic pH imbalance, you are susceptible to disease. Lemons are extremely alkalizing and ensure your pH balance is where it should be especially if your diet is heavy in cheese, meat and alcohol.
Great for detoxing
Lemon water is a natural diuretic, helping your body flush toxins and excess liquid. Citric acid also helps to maximize enzymes, which stimulates the liver.
It’s an energizer
The combination of lemon and warm water helps to oxygenate and hydrate the blood, which leaves you feeling energised.
Beautiful clear skin
Vitamin C plays a crucial role by decreasing blemishes and wrinkles. The antioxidants combat the aging factors. Lemon not only purges toxins from the skin but it can be applied directly to scars to help reduce their appearance.
Weight loss
Lemons are high in pectin fibre and this helps fight hunger cravings. It has been shown that people who maintain a more alkaline diet tend to lose weight faster.
Breath freshener
Not only is it a delightful breath freshener, but it helps to relieve toothache and gingivitis. Just keep in mind that too much citric acid can erode tooth enamel, so it’s best to rinse your mouth shortly afterward.
Helps with respiratory issues
Warm lemon water is known to fight off chest infections and halt coughs as they start. It’s also known to be helpful to people suffering from asthma and allergies.
Prevents kidney stones
Warm lemon water causes the citrate levels in the urine to rise. By drinking half a cup of lemon juice every day, studies have shown that this can protect against calcium stones in the kidney.
Potassium power
Another great way to get potassium in your system. Lemons offer 80 milligrams of this mineral and this helps your body stay nimble and strong.
Cleanses the bowels
Lemons increase peristalsis in the bowels. This helps to stimulate bowel movement, thus eliminating waste and helping with regularity.
Powerful antibacterial properties
Experiments have found that lemon juice destroys the bacteria of malaria, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid and many other deadly diseases.
Lemon is the only food in the world that is anionic (an ion with a negative charge) and all other foods are cationic (the ion has a positive charge.) According to The Reams Biological Ionization Theory (RBTI), this makes lemons extremely useful to health, as it is the interaction between cationics and anions that ultimately provides all cell energy – making it the perfect tonic for your day.
