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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The 4 Mistakes People Make with Drinking Lemon Water (and Juice)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Learn more about the benefits of lemons and the top mistakes people make when consuming lemon water.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I like to talk about four common mistakes that people make when they consume lemon water.

0:06.5

I've done lots of videos on lemon, limes, lemon water, and the benefits,

0:12.0

but I really haven't talked about the mistakes that people make.

0:14.4

But the main benefit of lemon juice is what it can do for kidney stones in preventing kidney stones, but the citrates interfere with the

0:23.9

formation of a kidney stone. Okay. And I'm talking about the calcium oxalids. And I've done a video

0:30.2

recently on that being related to a deficiency in citrate. And so one way to get more citrates

0:36.6

is to consume more lemon juice. Another benefit of

0:40.1

lemon water or just lemon juice is for its vitamin C. But just remember if you have pasteurized

0:46.8

lemon juice, the heat kills off the vitamin C. Now they probably add some vitamin C in the form

0:53.2

of acorbic acid, which is not the full complex. So if you really want to get the benefits of vitamin C. Now, they probably add some vitamin C in the form of escorbic acid, which is not the

0:54.9

full complex. So if you really want to get the benefits of vitamin C from lemon juice or limes,

0:59.8

just take a lemon or a lime and then just squeeze it in water or blend the whole thing in a blender

1:05.1

and you can actually drink that down. And that works really good if you add a little bit of like

1:09.7

maybe electrolyte powder, which has a little bit of stevie in there.

1:13.1

So it makes it a nice drink.

1:14.9

Plus you have this spike of electrolytes.

1:16.9

But if it's pasteurized, chances are it's not going to have a lot of vitamin C.

1:20.4

One of the common symptoms of vitamin C is bleeding gums.

1:24.2

So if you were brushing your teeth and you have this little pink toothbrush,

1:33.0

suspect a vitamin C deficiency. Another symptom would be fatigue. Another effect from lemon juice is its anihistamine effect. That's why it's good for allergies. Histimines are

1:40.1

those things that your body makes in reaction to an allergy that causes some of the mucus

1:45.2

and makes you tired. They're to some degree kind of like a fatigue poison. Another effect

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