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Should you drink lemon water every day?

All right, you've heard all about it and you've seen it everywhere. The lemon water trend.

And if you've hopped on board, I'm here to tell you you're wasting your time and your lemons.

That's right, lemon water is not all it's cracked up to be.

So where does this idea come from?

Well, the idea started out that lemon water is actually really good for you because of one of the oddest and quite frankly most unfounded diets there is out there, the alkaline diet.

Now interestingly enough, lemons are acidic, they contain citric acid.

But they are associated with alkaline effects.

What the heck does that mean?

Well, the body operates at a very, very, very tightly controlled pH level.

They find balance between acids in the body and alkaline effects in the body.

And while it is absolutely true that most vegetables have an alkaline effect, they trend towards the alkaline side of the pH scale.

And many animal products tend towards the acidic effect.

There really is no evidence that eating a slightly alkaline diet or drinking a slightly alkaline water has any effect on your body's pH balance.

This became very trendy and still trendy because you see all the alkaline waters for sale now.

And normally the normal pH is 7.0.

We, our bodies, operate on a pH between 7.35 and 7.45.

So a very, very narrow band.

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