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journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights.

Let's talk about the real reason why you should be drinking lemon water every single day.

The average person does not know the true benefits, okay, with an S of drinking lemon water, because it's actually quite amazing. So let's cover all of the

key points. Number one, by drinking lemon water on a regular basis, you have the potential to

reduce a fatty liver. Now, this is the phytonutrients in the lemon water that have the ability

to greatly improve something called hepatic steatosis. Now, what does hepatic mean? Liver. What does

steatosis mean? That means the infiltration of fat into the liver. So hepatic steatosis

means a fatty liver. Lemon water has the ability to dissolve the fat in the liver. There's other things as well,

like purified bowel salts, coline, a low-fat diet as in ketogenic diet, can reduce up to 50%

of the fat in your liver within 14 days. But if you add a little lemon to your water, you can

actually speed things up.

All right. Number two, it can help reduce cholesterol. Not that cholesterol is a bad thing,

but let's say your liver is sluggish and your gallbladder is sluggish and you're not producing

the bile and that's kind of backing up in the system. Lemon water can help increase the flow

bile through the bile ducts

and help remove some of the excess cholesterol that's kind of backing up in the system.

All right. Number three, weight loss. Now, lemon water does not directly help you lose weight.

It can indirectly help you lose weight. Now, quite a few studies on animals have shown

this, but I want to help you understand the mechanism. Certain phytonutrients in lemon water

stimulate significantly lower blood sugars. They reduce insulin resistance. So they lower insulin. And that is the reason

why someone can lose weight. In fact, if you really want to know how to lose weight, what I would do is

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