It’s vital to keep your body well-hydrated by ensuring that you drink a sufficient quantity of water each day. But what about those days when plain Jane water doesn’t appeal to you? Ramp up the flavor with lemon water. Not only will you boost your level of hydration, but you will also receive additional benefits.
6 Benefits of Drinking Lemon Water Each Day
Here is straight from the textbook fact about water. Your body is made up roughly 60% of this essential fluid. Moreover, your blood is approximately 90% composed of water. When you lack sufficient hydration, you begin to suffer the consequences.
And lemons are a nutritious addition to your water. Make easy lemon juice using your masticating juicer. Drinking lemon water is more pleasant for many people. Therefore, they are more likely to meet their daily intake requirements when they enjoy the zippy citrus flavor.
One lemon contains approximately 20% (18.6 mg) of the recommended intake of Vitamin C, per guidelines stated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). While this is not a significant source, every little bit adds up. That’s especially true if you drink the juice of an entire lemon or two throughout one day.
Here are some fantastic gadgets to extract lemon juice easily:
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1. Consider it “brain food”
According to research, even mild dehydration of 1 to 3% can negatively influence brain function.
These impacts include:
- Mood swings
- Confusion or dazed feeling
- Memory impairment
In addition, when you add lemon to that water, you infuse it not only with flavor. Indeed, you give it a boost of Vitamin C. That fact is important because Vitamin C is rich in antioxidants. These can help protect your organs, including the brain, from a condition called oxidative stress.
But why does that matter? Oxidative stress contributes to increased risk for developing Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and strokes.
So by drinking lemon water, you are delivering protection to your brain for both short- and long-term benefits.
2. Gives your skin a glow
Speaking about Vitamin C, this antioxidant is vital in protecting all the cells and organs in your body, not just the brain. So think back to science class--what’s your largest organ? Your skin.
The vitamin helps cells fight the effects of environmental pollution and help your skin cells regenerate. This cycle of shedding dead skin cells and developing new ones is a continual cycle.
The water itself is essential for plumping up the cells, so your skin looks fresh and restored. Also, that plumped up skin helps to improve the appearance of crow’s feet, fine lines, and wrinkles. This claim is substantiated in a 2016 study.
So to get back that youthful glow and younger skin...bottoms up!
3. Better digestive health
Even a small lack of water intake appears to be a factor in a sluggish digestive system. Ok. Let’s keep it real and call it by what it actually is: constipation.
Your bowels do an essential job. They perform the thankless task of flushing toxins and waste from your body. And to provide that service to your body, the gut needs water and lots of it.
And when you add lemon to your water, you are doing your bowels an excellent favor. Lemons help alkalize the gut to reduce inflammation that can lead to other tummy troubles. Those issues that stem from inflammation include irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis.
4. Promotes safe weight loss
We all know that when it’s time to lose weight, it’s time to step up to the plate and drink more lemon water.
The connection to water and weight loss is apparent. Water helps to improve your insulin resistance and control glucose levels. Because you stabilize those processes, your body can process sugars effectively and get your metabolism fired up.
When you drink more water, you lose weight faster--and more safely. The pleasant taste of lemon water makes dieters more likely to consume their daily servings. Therefore, they can jumpstart their weight loss.
5. You’ll have fresher breath
Lemon is useful as an odor eliminator. The pleasant aroma actually can eliminate unpleasant odors. Have you ever run a lemon down your garbage disposal to release the citrus oil and release the bad cooking odors?
Now think about how lemon water can help freshen up your breath after a garlic-laden lunch or dinner.
In addition to the odor neutralization, the citrus flavor of lemon stimulates your saliva production. And when you swallow that saliva, you also clear your mouth of any remaining food particles that can the build-up of bacteria and cause bad breath.
6. You can say no to kidney stones
When your kidneys are not functioning at peak performance, they sometimes don’t flush calcium, uric acid, and oxalate out of the body thoroughly.
And what help your kidneys operate in prime condition? You guessed it, water.
Also, Dr. Brian Eisner with Massachusetts General Hospital, states, “Studies have shown that drinking ½ cup of lemon juice concentrate diluted in water each day, or the juice of two lemons, can increase urine citrate and likely reduce kidney stone risk.”
So get squeezing!
How to Make Lemon Water
So now that your curiosity about lemon water is satisfied let’s talk about how to make lemon water.
Here’s what you will need.
- A 2-quart pitcher
- 2 organic lemons (because they are healthier and free of pesticides)
- 60 oz of distilled water, at room temperature
Cut the lemons in half. As you squeeze the juices into the pitcher, discard the seeds. Add the distilled water to the pitcher, and stir the mixture.
So now you might be wondering why you would use room temperature water instead of ice-cold water (which obviously sounds more refreshing).
Practitioners of the ancient Indian medicine Ayurveda insist that introducing cold water to your body slows down the blood flow to your stomach. Because of that impeded flow, it can slow your metabolism and cause lymphatic stagnation.
On the other hand, room temperature water, according to this school of thought, stimulates your “digestive fire” and promotes better metabolism.
Don’t buy into all of that? That’s ok.
Put the pitcher in the fridge and cool down your beverage. Your primary objective is getting that entire 60 oz. of lemon water downed each day.
Author BIO
Dr. CHRISTIAN-JEVON BRAMWELL MD
Christian Bramwell, MD uses his own weight loss story as teaching for people struggling with their own weight through blogging, teaching, and writing. His mission in life is to promote health and education, that is why he has chosen to be a family physician and found his own nonprofit Project RAK based on education and empowerment.
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