The Benefits of Lemon Water For Your Gut

Lemon water is such a simple drink with some incredible health benefits. There are variations of lemon water that when mixed adds new flavor twists, as well as, different and/or improved healing properties and health benefits. H2O is already necessary and beneficial to our entire body system and lemons are packed full of benefits. Some of the other additions are strawberry-lemon, cucumber - lemon, lemon - mint, and anything else that tastes good and provides some sort of sustenance. 

Benefits of Lemon Water

Antioxidant: Lemons and other citrus fruits contain compounds that protect cells and also improve metabolic health. Antioxidants are produced by our body and found in foods as well. They defend our cells from damage caused by harmful free radicals.

Aids Digestion: Drinking warm lemon water or a simple hot lemon tea when you wake up in the morning helps get the digestive system moving. This enables you to digest more food easily and it also helps eliminate toxins preventing any build-up.

Naturally Energizing: Lemon water can make a nice natural energy drink. It isn’t going to be the wicked rush and crash found in the store bought energy drinks. However, it will provide the body with good clean energy that is beneficial for the body as a whole. 

Reduces Inflammation: Lemons and citrus fruits naturally alkalize our body. The alkalinity increase helps reduce inflammation. 

Clean Up:  Since lemons kick start things in order to aid digestion they help pave the way for keeping things clean inside. The lemon will help to collect any waste as it moves through the digestive system helping the body eliminate the bad and make way for the good.

Why Warm Water?

In order for lemon water to aid digestion it has to be warm or hot but never cold. Our internal temperatures are closer to warm water than they are cool or cold water. Warm water helps the gut comfortably while cold water is more of an unpleasant shock. 

Lemon water is beneficial in so many ways. Adding some lemon water to your diet can cause some pretty positive effects. Sometimes it’s super beneficial to eat some of the fresh lemon and this is because different parts of the lemon contain the different healing qualities and benefits. The fiber and pectin can’t be found in lemon water alone. If you prefer lemon water squeeze the lemons out into the water making sure some of the fruit gets in and then add the rind to the water in order to get the benefits found in the peel. You don’t have to drink it every day but if you’d try it for a week you’d notice the changes worth experiencing.