Drink Lemon Water – Preferably Daily

Lemon water is extremely healthy. It has an alkaline effect, inhibits inflammation, promotes digestion, and helps with weight loss. Lemon water is also quick to make. Learn at least 10 reasons why it’s best to drink lemon water every day.

Lemon water – 10 convincing reasons

A healthy lifestyle is exhausting: Eating healthy, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and much more. Not everyone perseveres. However, a simple measure that requires little effort and at the same time can compensate for many other nutritional mistakes is drinking lemon water – preferably in the morning after getting up.

The daily lemon drink only takes a minute and therefore fits into even the tightest manager’s schedule. In no time you will notice a big difference in your well-being. Because lemon water has convincing properties. There are at least 10 reasons to drink lemon water every day.

Hydrated lemon water

Lemon water hydrates very well, i.e. it supplies the body with vital fluids and at the same time with a light, but high-quality because of well-bioavailable mineralization. Since lemon water tastes far better than water for most people, lemon water also leads to more drinking, and that drinking is not – as is so often the case – forgotten.

Lemon water promotes and improves digestion

Lemon water is an excellent way to improve digestive health. Lemon’s acids help the stomach digest protein and promote bile production in the liver, which in turn optimizes fat digestion and prevents digestive problems including constipation.

Lemon water strengthens the immune system

Lemons, lemon juice, and therefore also lemon water have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Their vitamin C richness also ensures a high antioxidant potential. All these properties strengthen and relieve the immune system.

The antibacterial effect of lemon juice is so good that lemon juice can also be used to disinfect bacterially contaminated water, as a research team from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina found out. Already a 2 percent addition of lemon juice to the polluted drinking water could kill the cholera bacteria there after 30 minutes.

Lemon water cleanses the kidneys

Of all fruit juices, lemon water provides the largest amount of citrate. However, citrates – as has long been known – dissolve kidney stones and can prevent the formation of new kidney stones.

Lemon water protects joints

In particular, the citrates in lemon water dissolve calcium-containing kidney stones and kidney stones that consist of uric acid crystals. However, uric acid crystals can also build up in the joints ( gout ).

If you drink a glass of lemon water every morning, you protect the joints from such uric acid crystal deposits. The lemon water dissolves the crystals before they can even get into the joints.

However, an appropriate diet that does not produce as much uric acid in the first place would also be important, especially if there are already joint problems or a tendency to gout. For example, cherries are highly recommended.

Lemon water detoxifies

Lemon water has a slightly diuretic (draining) effect and therefore accelerates the excretion of excess water as well as pollutants and toxins in the urine. You can benefit from the detoxifying abilities of lemon water just by drinking a glass of lemon water every day.

If you want to use lemon juice as a cure for targeted detoxification and purification over a short period of time, then the lemon juice cure (Master Cleanse) is ideal. For example, you can do it once a year. Details on the lemon juice cure can be found here: The lemon juice cure

Lemon water deacidified

Lemon juice tastes sour, but – according to the acid-base model – has a basic effect. The sour-tasting fruit acids are quickly broken down in the body into carbon dioxide and water, leaving the alkaline minerals in the lemon.

At the same time, the lemon and thus also lemon water have an alkaline effect on 8 levels and thus fulfill our requirements for alkaline or alkaline-forming and healthy food.

The lemon thus behaves 8-fold basic:

• The lemon is relatively rich in bases (potassium, magnesium).
• The lemon is low in acid-forming amino acids.
• The lemon stimulates the body’s own base formation (promotes the formation of bile in the liver and bile is alkaline).
• The lemon does not slag, so it does not leave any burdensome metabolic residues that the organism would have to laboriously neutralize and eliminate.
• The lemon contains certain substances that give the body advantages: antioxidants, vitamin C and activating fruit acids
• The lemon is extremely rich in water and therefore helps to flush out all kinds of waste products.
• Lemon has an anti-inflammatory effect.
• Lemon promotes gastrointestinal health by promoting digestion and helping to regenerate mucous membranes.

Lemon water helps with weight loss

Due to the described diuretic, digestive, deacidifying, and detoxifying effects, lemon water naturally also facilitates weight loss. Yes, lemon water is definitely one of the most affordable components of any weight loss program.

If you also use the grated lemon peel (see below under “Lemon water – ingredients and preparation”), you will also enjoy the rich polyphenols that are particularly found in the peel of the fruit. These polyphenols turn on genes that in turn promote fat loss. Losing weight works better the more you use the lemon.

Lemon water heals mucous membranes

Although one might think that the acids in lemon juice attack the mucous membranes, we have long known that the opposite is usually the case. The lemon juice cure mentioned under 6. was invented in the first place because it was found that lemon juice could heal gastric ulcers and thus regenerate the gastric mucosa.

It has also been shown that after regular drinking of lemon juice, allergy-related inflammation of the mucous membranes in the nose heal, and conjunctivitis can also improve in this way.

Of course, with lemon water – as with any other food – people react very differently to it. Some also report heartburn as a side effect. However, you really have to make sure that you drink the lemon water on an empty stomach and that you drink it at least 30 minutes before your first meal. Otherwise, the lemon water could also have a detrimental effect.

Lemon water for skin care

Lemon water can even be used externally, for example for skin care. As a face tonic, it fights bacteria, tightens the connective tissue, protects against free radicals, and thus acts as an anti-aging tonic.

Lemon water recipe: ingredients and preparation

Drinking lemon water in the morning can therefore have far-reaching effects on your health so you will already feel noticeable health changes as a result of this measure, which is so easy to carry out.

The ingredients

So all you need is:

• 1/2 lemon
• 250 – 300 ml of water and a
• Citrus press (hand presses are available for 2 euros). If you need an electric press, it costs around 20 euros, e.g. B. this citrus press (BPA-free).
• If you want to drink the lemon water sweetened, then stevia or xylitol are required. However, try it first without sweeteners so that you don’t get used to the sweet taste at all. Since the lemon juice is heavily diluted in lemon water, it tastes refreshing but not sour. A sweetener is therefore not required.

The preparation

Now squeeze out half a lemon, pour the lemon juice into the water (spring water or filtered tap water) and drink it at your leisure.

You can of course also heat the water, e.g. B. in winter. However, it should not be hot so that the valuable substances in the lemon are not damaged.

Use untreated organic lemons, as you can then use the peel as well. You can grate these and add them to many vegetable dishes, desserts, smoothies, shakes, or sauces, giving food and drinks a wonderfully fresh aroma – while you enjoy the healing properties hidden in the lemon zest.

You can also cut off the outer lemon zest from the white part, then cut it into small pieces, dry (in the dehydrator, in the oven (lowest possible temperature), in the sun, or on the heater), and add to your teas in winter to flavor it.

Does lemon water damage your teeth?

It is said again and again that lemon water is bad for your teeth. Lemons and the juice from them are undoubtedly acidic. However, the health benefits for the entire organism far outweigh them. Acids can of course be harmful to the teeth, that’s true, but only under certain conditions. You would have to keep sipping on a lemon drink or rinsing your mouth with lemon juice several times a day (which nobody does, of course!) for hours at a time to keep your teeth from recovering. In this case, you would see damage to the teeth.

However, if you use lemon juice e.g. B. use for dressing or drink lemon water once a day (takes a maximum of 1 minute), then it is not harmful to the teeth. Furthermore, if you want to be on the safe side, you can consider various points that further reduce the possible harmful potential of lemon juice:

You dilute it heavily with water (no one drinks it straight), you use cold water (hot water makes the acid more aggressive), you use a straw that prevents contact with your front teeth, and you can even just rinse your mouth with plain water afterward do the washing up.

Should you brush your teeth before or after drinking lemon water?

It was once believed that after eating fruit or anything else acidic, you shouldn’t brush your teeth and had to wait at least 30 to 60 minutes. In our article Brushing your teeth after fruit, we explain why the previous recommendation is outdated.

You can drink the lemon water – just as you like – before or after brushing your teeth. In both cases, after the lemon water – as explained in the previous paragraph – we would rinse our mouths with water.

Should you really drink lemon water every day?

During a cure with lemon water, you drink it every day. However, this does not mean that you have to drink lemon water permanently for a lifetime. We recommend a course of use for two to three weeks at a time. In between, you take a break of several weeks, not least because there are many other purifying and detoxifying measures that you can use alternately.

Lemon Garlic Cure

If you want to increase the effect of the lemon water, you can also take the lemon as part of the lemon-garlic cure. Here you will not only enjoy the positive mechanisms of action and vital substances of the lemon but will also benefit from the detoxifying properties of the garlic.