Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagle the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous would you like to detox, rev up your metabolism, and melt off those

pounds more quickly? It's easy. All you have to do is sip a glass of warm water and

lemon juice first thing every morning.

Or at least that's what countless websites, magazine articles, and health

gurus are claiming.

Lately, I've heard from several of you asking whether these benefits are for real.

And now let's take a closer look at what drinking warm lemon water can and can't do for your health.

Let's start with what drinking lemon water doesn't do.

Number one, lemon water won't detoxify your body.

Your liver, along with your kidneys, skin, and lungs constantly work together to break down and eliminate chemicals, both natural and synthetic, that might otherwise harm your health.

Drinking warm lemon water doesn't speed up or enhance this process at all.

Now, lemons do contain a compound called lemene, which has been shown to enhance the production of certain liver enzymes that are involved in

detoxification, at least in lab rats.

But the amount of lemene in lemon water is far too small to have any effect on your liver enzymes.

The very best way to enhance detoxification

is to give your organs less to detoxify

by reducing your optional exposures to harmful compounds and for more on

that please see episode number 62 how to detoxify your body and number 284 how to reduce your exposure to pesticides. Number two

drinking lemon water is not going to make your body more alkaline. Your kidney

and lungs are in charge of maintaining your body's pH

at the ideal balance no matter what you eat or drink. And for more on that

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