Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level, Dr. Eric Berg.

So I'm going to talk about why lemon water is essential if you're doing fasting and

the ketogenic diet.

Now typically when you think of lemons, you think of acid, right, citric acid and lemon

juice and lemons are really good to decrease the risk of kidney stones because they help

bind with oxalates, okay, and most kidney stones are calcium oxalates stones.

There is some vitamin C in lemons, okay, but not if it's in a jar and it's pasteurized

because the heat destroys the vitamin C.

The other side note that you need to know is that any time you consume vitamin C in your

body or any food is vitamin C and at the same time you're consuming sugar.

What's going to happen is your body is going to absorb the sugar but not the vitamin C because

their chemistry is very similar.

The body will always absorb sugar before vitamin C and I can think of like lemonade for

example or people take lemons and on the sugar they're thinking, oh yeah, I'm going to

get some vitamin C. No, they're not, okay, so there's some other benefits of lemon juice

or lemons and you could use the juice of one lemon which is one ounce of lemon juice

or just lemon juice for what I'm going to recommend.

Now what's interesting about citrus in general and lemon juice or lime juice is that after

you consume it within one hour that acid turns to an alkaline substance, it turns alkaline.

So lemons are good for people that have acidosis where their pH is slightly to acidic, okay,

that means the pH is dropped down.

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