Water with lemon - an elixir of health and youth

Few people do not know that water with lemon on an empty stomach gives great benefits to our body. What is its use? Why are we advised to drink it 30 minutes before breakfast?

It was yoga instructors who first began to recommend drinking water with lemon as soon as they woke up. Making this natural lemonade is easy: get out of bed, cut a slice from a lemon, then squeeze the juice into 250 ml of water and drink immediately. So you will make a shower for the body, quench your thirst and improve your health.

After half an hour, as you drank 250 ml of lemon water, you can have breakfast. By doing this, you will experience all 15 wonderful properties of water with lemon.

Benefits of using lemon water

1. Water with lemon has a positive effect on the immune system. This is due to the vitamin C found in lemons. Lemons contain this vitamin in the most digestible form. The immune system is very sensitive to vitamin C deficiency, reacting to it with fatigue, weakness, and bad mood. We cannot synthesize this vitamin, as well as accumulate it, which means that its daily intake is very important for us.

1. Lemons contain a lot of potassium. Although they are inferior to bananas and apricots, they have their own advantages: lemons have significantly fewer calories than bananas, and you can eat lemons all year round, unlike seasonal apricots. Potassium is important for brain function and for the harmonious functioning of the nervous system.

1. The use of lemon water has a positive effect on the heart muscle, vascular system, and blood. Water with lemon can cleanse the blood of toxins, and also reduces high blood pressure by 10%. The therapeutic dose is the juice of 2 large lemons. Systematically measure the pressure when you start lemon treatment, after 2-3 weeks the pressure will begin to drop, then you can gradually reduce the doses of drugs that you use to reduce pressure. Over time, it is quite possible that you will completely refuse them.

1. Water with lemon is involved in improving digestion. Therefore, it is worth drinking it on an empty stomach before having breakfast. Lemon juice will reduce the symptoms of heartburn, relieve belching and gas formation in the intestinal tract.

1. The positive effect of lemons on the liver tissue is known. Lemon water on an empty stomach improves the functioning of digestive enzymes, and therefore removes toxins. "Drinking" the liver cells, lemons with water will help our liver function more harmoniously.

1. Water with lemon and kidneys. How likely is lemon water to adversely affect the kidneys? I don’t think it’s in your power to eat 3 kg of lemons every day, and nothing bad will happen to you from 1-2 per day. On the contrary, there are even studies showing that regular drinking of this drink will help free the kidneys from the risk of stone formation. Citrates, which are rich in lemons, slow down the formation of kidney stones.

But if stones have already formed in your kidneys and their sizes are large enough, the uncontrolled use of lemon juice with water can cause stones to move, there is already a risk of blockage of the urinary canals.

1. Lemon makes our breath fresh. Did you know that when the usual toothpaste did not yet exist, many wealthy people and royalty rinsed their mouths with lemon water? Citric acid is so active that it can eat away at tooth enamel, but if we use it in low concentration, it will alleviate toothache and gingivitis. Therefore, if water with lemon has appeared in your life, you need to brush your teeth before drinking it or a little later.

1. With the help of water with lemon there is an opportunity to lose weight. Water with lemon for weight loss is becoming quite popular. Lemons contain pectins that reduce appetite. If you are trying to lose weight and wake up feeling very hungry, drinking 250 ml of water with lemon juice in the morning on an empty stomach or before each meal, you will eat less. During the day, also eat 4-5 lemon slices. Prepare vegetable salads and sprinkle them with lemon juice.

Green tea plus lemon (1 wedge) plus apple cider vinegar (2 tsp) will help you lose weight. Drink this drink three times a day.

If you are using lemon water for weight loss, do not forget the importance of increasing the amount of plain water in your diet. Simple and protects your stomach lining from excessive acid activity.

The combined use of a reasonable diet, exercise and water with lemon for weight loss will give you the most complete and pleasant effect.

Of course, not everyone is happy to drink water with lemon. In order to lose weight, try combining lemon and honey. It is enough every morning, as soon as you wake up, to drink 200 ml of water with honey (1 tsp) and lemon juice (2 tsp). Water with honey and lemon is a mild and pleasant remedy for weight loss.

1. Water with lemon soothes inflammation. You may be surprised, but lemon and water do not increase acidity, but, on the contrary, reduce the overall acidity in the body. If you put sugar in water with lemon and drink it in this form, the acidity just “jumps”.

Lemon water will also have a healing effect on the musculoskeletal system. Uric acid often accumulates in the joints, and this causes inflammation. Water with lemon is involved in its removal from the joints.

1. Lemon water will help to forget about laziness. Not coffee in the morning, but water with lemon will help you wake up, cheer up and feel a surge of energy. Of course, such a positive effect on our morning energy will not last long, but if you have a good breakfast after using it, your energy will last until lunch. Much more complete than eating breakfast alone.

And lemon water is a great cure for anxiety and despondency. If you inhale the lemon scent, you will notice how your mood improves, anxiety disappears, depressive thoughts leave your enlightened head. Lemon water will calm the nervous system, setting it up for activity, energetic activity.

1. Lemon water will help get rid of. Have you been wanting to stop drinking coffee for a long time, or at least consume it in smaller quantities? Drink lemon water in the morning on an empty stomach. There are people who prefer to drink cold water in the morning, others - heated. Hot water with lemon is just the right substitute for coffee.

1. Lemons can protect against infections. If you are already sick, a slice of lemon will no longer be able to rid you of the virus, but the systematic use of water with lemon on an empty stomach is an excellent preventive measure against flu and colds.

Lemon water is great for sore tonsils. Gargle with a solution of ½ lemon juice and 100 ml of water up to five times a day - this will relieve a sore throat.

1. Water with lemon will improve the condition of the skin, as. Due to the same vitamin C, skin rejuvenation occurs, wrinkles decrease, a blush appears. Lemon water has a positive effect on small scars and scars. If you get burned, you can apply water with lemon - it will cool, reduce pain and burning. Naturally, all these results are possible only with the daily use of the remedy.

1. Water with lemon during pregnancy: vitamin C will help a woman's immune system become stronger, form the skeletal system of her baby. Potassium from lemons will be involved in the formation of the nerve and brain cells of the child.

1. Lemons will help get rid of cancer! The growth of malignant cells slows down, their destruction occurs, while it does not affect healthy cells.

Eating one whole lemon a day or drinking the juice of one lemon will make it possible not to get sick at all! But lemons must be consumed without adding sugar ...

Water with lemon - harm

No matter how wonderful, most useful any remedy may be, in certain cases it can be harmful. Lemon water is no exception.

1. For those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, lemon water will most likely need to be abandoned. Ulcerative processes, gastritis with high acidity, the use of sleeping pills - in all these cases, water with lemon can harm. With a tendency to heartburn, an excessive amount of lemon juice can worsen the condition.

1. Passion for citrus in general is not safe. I will talk about this in detail in one of my future articles, if you don’t want to miss it, subscribe to blog updates, and it will come to you in your email box. Rash, irritation on the skin are the usual companions of citrus passion.

1. Citric acid can destroy tooth enamel, so lemon juice should be diluted with water and drunk through a straw, and you can also rinse your mouth after drinking citrus juice.

1. Large amounts of vitamin C can cause dehydration in the cells, because this vitamin has a diuretic effect.

So drink water with lemon without fanaticism, then there will be no problems.

By the way, citric acid in sachets does not replace freshly squeezed lemon juice.

It all depends on taste. Starting from five drops of juice per dose to the juice of 2 lemons per day. The average dose is the juice of half a lemon per 200 ml of water, and then as far as your stomach and your taste preferences allow.

• Do not prepare water with lemon juice for future use. Only freshly prepared lemon water will be useful.
• If you drink water with lemon on an empty stomach, do not sit at the table for some time and do not combine with dairy products, they will curdle under the influence of citric acid. Which can cause belching, and even an upset in the gastrointestinal tract.
• If you start drinking lemon water on an empty stomach and your stomach starts to hurt, stop using it and start treating your gastrointestinal tract and digestive organs.
• Be sure to wash or peel lemons, as they are almost always treated with wax or special chemicals to extend their shelf life.

A glass of warm water with lemon on an empty stomach in the morning is one of the easiest, most cost-effective and effective ways to restore health, stay healthy and full of energy for a long time. Use it and