Is Lemon Juice Acid or Alkaline?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Is lemon juice acid or alkaline? Find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:12.0 | Doctor Eric Burg. |
| 0:14.0 | So I wanted to do a quick video just to answer this question that keeps coming up as well. |
| 0:19.0 | Is lemon juice acid or alkaline? |
| 0:21.0 | Okay. |
| 0:22.0 | Because some people will say it alkalizes the body, some people say it will acidify the body. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, citric acid is an acid. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a very strong acid in lemons. |
| 0:33.0 | There's a pH between two and three. |
| 0:36.0 | Now, what does that actually mean? |
| 0:38.0 | What's the significance of that pH? |
| 0:41.0 | Well, it's basically 10,000 to a hundred thousand times more acidic than water. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, so lemon juice is acidic, very acidic. |
| 0:52.0 | But as soon as you consume it and it goes into the body, it gets burned up. |
| 0:57.0 | And it turns alkaline, okay? |
| 0:59.0 | So it does alkalize not your blood or the body, but mainly the urine, okay? |
| 1:07.0 | And so the benefit of doing that for certain people that have gout is beneficial. |
| 1:14.0 | So it can reduce the risk of gout crystals coming out of the solution going into your big toe. |
| 1:21.0 | It can also reduce both uric acid stones in the kidney as well as calcium oxalates stones |
| 1:30.0 | because the citric acid will help bind with the oxalates and prevent the calcium from accumulating. |
| 1:36.0 | Also, the other benefit of lemon juice is vitamin C. |
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