The Mind-Blowing Benefits of a Lemon - Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about the interesting benefits of lemons that you may have never heard before.
Many people know fresh lemons contain citrates, which lower the risk of kidney stones. They may also know that lemons are rich in vitamin C. But another secret weapon lemons have is called flavonoids. Flavonoids have powerful, wide-ranging effects.
One specific flavonoid in lemons can help remove fat from the liver, balance lipids in the liver, and support healthy blood sugar levels. It also helps protect the integrity of the capillaries.
Other potential health benefits of lemons:
• They may help with bleeding gums
• They help support peripheral circulation
• They may help with hyperglycemia
• They may help improve HDL
• They may help lower LDL
• They may help lower the risk of chronic venous insufficiency
• They contain potent anti-inflammatory compounds and may help with arthritis, fibrosis, and clotting
• They may help decrease glycation
• They may help reduce insulin resistance
• They have a profound effect on diabetic cardiomyopathy
• They are neuroprotective
• They have antimicrobial properties
To maximize the benefits of consuming lemons, you can make a simple drink using the whole lemon rather than just lemon juice.
Try blending one whole lemon with 12 ounces of water and a few drops of stevia or my Electrolyte Powder for a delicious, healthy lemon drink. You can also add apple cider vinegar for additional benefits. For best results, enjoy this drink in the mornings.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the mind-blowing benefits of a lemon. I think most people know that lemons are |
| 0:06.8 | high in vitamin C. So if you buy lemon juice that's bottled, it's pasteurized. So you're not going |
| 0:13.0 | to get a lot of vitamin C. I'm talking about fresh, squeezed, lemon juice. Okay, so you have vitamin C. |
| 0:19.1 | You also have citrate, which can help lower the risk of getting kidney stones. |
| 0:24.4 | Lemons are good for the skin, good for digestion. But today I'm going to talk about this other |
| 0:30.1 | group of nutrients and lemons called flavonoids. Okay, there are over 6,000 different flavonoids. |
| 0:39.6 | And no, we're not going to cover each one of them today. But we are going to cover one flavonoid. |
| 0:44.6 | Okay, just one. So the one I want to cover is called aerositrin. Aerositrin is a flavonoid |
| 0:51.2 | in lemons. And lemons have the most aerositrates. And these are the facts. Removing fat from your liver, |
| 0:58.0 | helping you balance out your lipids like cholesterol in your liver, reversal of diabetes on a |
| 1:05.6 | double-blinded randomized study. Aerositrin has similar effects to the main antioxidant in green tea. |
| 1:14.1 | So it's a very, very powerful antioxidant. Aerositrin also has a lot to do with protecting the |
| 1:20.7 | integrity of your capillaries. So how is that going to relate to what problems you might have? Well, |
| 1:25.6 | bleeding gums, if your gum tissue is like red or swollen, wow, you need lemons. It's not just |
| 1:31.3 | the vitamin C. It's these flavonoids. And that can also give you a lot of benefits in your |
| 1:35.8 | circulation, the peripheral circulation. The circulation that happens in the extremities, |
| 1:40.2 | like on the bottom of your feet or ankles or your hands are discolored or you have |
| 1:47.0 | circulation problems. Or maybe you have spider veins. Aerositrin can greatly help that. |
| 1:52.4 | Some of these other phytonutrients have huge profound effect against hyperglycemia, |
| 1:59.5 | high blood glucose, which is diabetes. So let's say you are a diabetic or you have sugar or let's |
| 2:04.0 | say you just ate a bunch of sugar and you had a lemon. The phytonutrient, the flavonoids in that |
| 2:08.9 | lemon are going to counteract all this oxidative stress going on. They're going to also improve |
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