The Benefits of Warm Lemon Water
What drink is crazy inexpensive to make, keeps your skin glowing, helps with digestion and weight loss and is packed with vitamin C? (Hint: it’s not a secret potion whose recipe is sold exclusively on some late-night infomercial.)
It’s lemon water!
A glass of lemon juice contains less than 25 calories. It’s a rich source of key nutrients like calcium, potassium, vitamin C, pectin fiber and trace amounts of iron and vitamin A. It can help maintain a healthy immune system and contains therapeutic and antibacterial properties.
Warm lemon water serves as the perfect good morning drink. Sometimes I drink mine with just lemon juice and water, but most mornings I also add raw local honey and grated ginger.
Here’s how:
- Squeeze the juice of one lemon (or half of a large lemon) into a cup or mug.
- Grate in some fresh ginger. (Ginger hack: peel the root and freeze it to make it super easy to grate without the stringy bits you get by grating it when it’s fresh. It lasts longer, too!)
- Fill the cup with hot water.
- Stir in a teaspoon of raw, local honey.
- Enjoy while you ease into your day.
So, make yourself a cup of warm lemon water and read on for more benefits from the key ingredients in this morning super-elixir.
Lemon Juice
Benefits of lemon juice from the nutrition experts at Edison Institute of Nutrition
- As a rich source of vitamin C, lemon juice protects the body from Immune system deficiencies.
- Drinking lemon juice with warm water every morning helps in maintaining the pH balance of the body.
- With its powerful antibacterial properties, lemon juice helps fight infections
- It acts as a detoxifying agent.
- Helps with maintaining digestive health.
- Along with vitamin C, lemons are also a rich source of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium etc.
- Helps fight common cold
- Lemon water is also a popular remedy for many kinds of skin problems ranging from acne, rashes and wrinkles to dark spots.
- Lemon juice with warm water helps in quick weight loss as it promotes digestion and increases the metabolic rate.
- Lemon juice is also very effective at cleansing the liver as it promotes the liver to flush out toxins
- Lemon’s anti-inflammatory properties help in fighting respiratory tract infections, sore throat and inflammation of tonsils.
- Lemon juice with warm water helps keep the body hydrated as it provides electrolytes to the body.
- Drinking lemon juice with warm water also helps reduce joint and muscle pain.
- Lemon juice with warm water is also good for your dental health as it helps with toothache and prevents gingivitis.
- Lemon juice with warm water helps with digestion and hence, helps regulate natural bowel movement.
Raw, Local Honey
The many health benefits of raw honey, from Dr Axe
- Research studies have linked honey consumption with weight loss.
- Raw honey contains bee pollen, which is known to ward off infections, provide natural allergy relief and boost overall immunity.
- It provides an easily absorbed supply of energy in the form of liver glycogen, making it ideal for energetic morning starts and as a pre- and post-exercise energy source.
- Studies have shown that a daily dose of raw honey raises levels of health-promoting antioxidants that help block free radicals in the body that cause disease.
- Raw honey has been shown to be as effective in treating coughs as over-the-counter commercial cough syrups.
Ginger
Proven health benefits of ginger from the folks at Healthline
- Ginger contains a substance with powerful medicinal properties and can be used to help digestion and fight the flu and common cold.
- It can be used to treat many forms of nausea and morning sickness.
- The anti-inflammatory properties of ginger have been shown to be effective against exercise-induced muscle pain and can help with osteoarthritis.
- Research has shown ginger may lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
- Studies have shown ginger may improve brain function and protect against age-related cognitive decline.
I invite you to join me in making this simple practice part of your morning routine and see for yourself what benefits you’ll enjoy most.
Let us know in the comments below if you’re ready to commit to a daily cuppa, or if you already drink lemon water every morning, what do you add to yours?
Cheers to your health!
