Health Benefits of Lemons

The Mighty Lemon!

Lemons have been traditionally used in home-made cold and flu remedies we have been told to drink honey and lemon at the first signs of a cold or flu being well known as an immune system booster.  However, there is so much more to this little fruit than meets the eye.

Lemons are chock full of vitamins and nutrients good for all round body health.  Vitamin C for instance but not just the ascorbic acid which is just one part of the vitamin C complex and the most common type of vitamin C sold in multivitamins and other products.  Ascorbic acid is part of a complex which includes copper Vitamin K1 and J.  Vitamin C is excellent for the immune system, prevents bleeding gums, it is anti-fungal and anti-viral. 

So here are 7 benefits of consuming lemons daily

1. Full of Antioxidants

 

Antioxidants are substances that inhibit oxidation such as vitamin C or E, they remove potentially damaging oxidising agents from living organisms.  Lemons are loaded with these disease-fighting superheroes! Vitamin C is one of the most abundant in lemons and the wonderful aspect of vitamin C sourced from actual lemons is that you get the whole vitamin C complex.  The vitamin C sold most widely in generic multivitamin products is ascorbic acid which is a part of the vitamin C complex and can be detrimental to your health if consumed in large quantities.  Believe it or not, large amounts of ascorbic acid can lead to a form of scurvy.  Lemons provide not only ascorbic acid but also copper, Vitamin K, Vitamin J, and vitamin P. Ascorbic acid’s only purpose is to protect the other parts of the complex!

1. Bioflavonoids

Remember vitamin P mentioned above is the part of the Vitamin C complex that makes up the available bioflavonoids in lemons. There are 6,000 of these flavonoids the most potent of these present in high concentration in lemons is Eriocitrin.

Removes fat from your liver, phytonutrients in lemon can dissolve the fat on your liver.  As well as purified bile salts, choline, and a ketogenic diet, can reduce up to 50% in 14 days, lemon juice will help to speed this process up.

2. Helps to shed excess weight by reducing insulin resistance (Insert photo)

Insulin resistance is when your body’s cells don’t respond correctly to the insulin that your body makes or the insulin injected as a medication. Lemons Indirectly help you lose weight by reducing insulin resistance.  They stimulate or significantly lower blood sugars. Fat cells cannot be reduced unless you lower insulin!

There are signs to look for to determine if insulin resistance is the problem:

Fatty liver, abdominal belly fat, hunger cravings for sugar or carbohydrate-rich food, elevated blood sugar, acne and large pores, polycystic ovarian syndrome, scalp hair loss, skin tags, increased risk of gout, high blood pressure, swollen ankles (edema) as well as fingers, face and abdomen.

3. May support vital organs

Lemons support the liver a vital organ by reducing one of the most prevalent causes of ill health a fatty liver.  Lemon water dissolves the fat in the liver.  Want to reduce fatty liver by 50% in under 14 days? Combine lemon water with purified bile salts, choline and a low carbohydrate diet such as keto.

Reduces Kidney stones, citrate in lemon juice binds with oxalates which form most kidney stones. 

4. May Help heart health

Improves good cholesterol HDL and helps to reduce LDL, the bad cholesterol.

       If you have been diagnosed with high cholesterol, then lemon juice will help

       reduce the damaging LDL which can potentially lead to blocked arteries.

5. May help you Live Longer and look younger

Anti-aging affect in studies on animals they lived 5 weeks longer. Not much you may say but just imagine the accumulative affect drinking lemon water every day. Studies have also shown that lemon water extends the life of your friendly gut bacteria (microbiome).

Lemon juice can help you look younger by supporting and stimulating the production of collagen. Collagen is a type of protein. In fact, it’s the most abundant structural protein in our bodies making up from 25-35% of whole protein content and the main component of connective tissue. As we age collagen production begins to decline from the age of 30-35 less connective tissue means several things one of them being

May Help to inhibit cancer test-tube studies have shown that certain phytonutrients which are found in lemons namely afore mentioned eriocitrin, killed malignant cancers of the tongue, lungs and colon.

facial wrinkles.  Lemon also helps to prevent the destruction of collagen.

6. Other benefits of lemons:

Protects the integrity of your capillaries if you have bleeding gums, spider veins or discolouration on your extremities. Reduces veinous insufficiency helps reduce varicose veins, edema.

Decreases glycation binding of sugar to fat making it unusable in body.  Reduces inflammation and the decrease of clotting and fibrosis.

Neuroprotective helps protect your brain from damage.

The best way to consume lemons daily is to take advantage of the whole lemon instead of just the juice.  The peel, pith, pulp and seeds contain the entire vitamin C complex and other benefits already mentioned.

Whole Lemon Recipe

1 whole organic lemon

8oz water

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

10-12 drops of stevia (natural sweetener)

Wash the lemon cut up into chunks and place in a blender along with water and ACV.  Blend until a thick liquid, about 30 seconds.  Pour into a glass and add the stevia to taste. Make sure you consume through a straw as the acidic nature of this mixture can damage your tooth enamel.

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