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The health benefits of citrus, okay?

We're talking about lemons and limes.

Of course, orange and grapefruit are also citrus, but those two have too much sugar.

So we're going to mainly talk about lemons and limes.

So the citrus fruits have many, many vital nutrients, okay?

But we're going to mainly talk about the flavonoids, okay?

One type of flavonoids is called bioflavinoids, which is part of the vitamin C complex

and very, very important in gum health, like your gums, if you have bleeding gums,

it can actually reverse that pretty quick. So I'm not just talking about vitamin C being

acorbic acid. I'm talking about the whole vitamin C complex. This is why I encourage people to get

the majority of their vitamins from food because you get the complete complex. Like the vitamin C

complex, like citrus fruits are the

best for that. But you can also get these vital nutrient benefits from not just consuming the fruit,

but the leaves, the roots, and the flowers of the lemon and the lime tree. Now, lemon and limes

have pretty much the same nutrients. They have B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9,

which is folate. They have calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and zinc. But I wouldn't depend on

getting your vitamins and minerals from lemons and limes. The thing that you want to get from lemons

and limes is the flavonoates.

Okay. Why? Because they have some very cool properties. Anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, antiviral,

antifungal, anti-diabetic. Now, I've done so many of these videos with different plants and vegetables and herbs.

And it seems like they all have these same common benefits.

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