When you drink lemon juice and water on an empty stomach, you shoot multiple birds with one stone.
- You give your body an energy boost, as lemons are rich in vitamin C and are a source of vitamin B-complex, potassium, iron, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium.
- You increase your body’s alkalinity and decrease its acidity, helping it maintain its pH balance.
- You provide your body with electrolytes to stay hydrated, especially on hot summer days.
- You could ease and cure your sore throat naturally.
- It helps you with healthily losing weight.
- You help cleanse your liver without much effort, except maybe squeezing the lemon. Your liver is your recycling organ; when you keep it healthy, your immune system gets stronger, your skin clears out, your metabolism increases, your weight drops, and your energy shoots up.
- As a bonus, you get a couple of glasses from your daily water intake out of the way.
For best results:
Add freshly squeezed half of a lemon juice into one liter of warm or room temperature water; not hot nor cold.
Give yourself about 30 minutes before eating anything.
If you do not have enough time, instead of one liter of water, have two glasses and give yourself 15 minutes, instead of 30, before eating anything.
Drinking lemon juice and water first thing in the morning helps your liver work more efficiently to detoxify your system, increasing your metabolism, and inducing weight loss.
By Ritta Wakim, founder of The True Vegan Body, who helps people over 40 build a knockout body and get addicted to healthy plant-powered eating.
