What Happens When You Drink Lemon Water Every Day
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
What would happen if you drank lemon water for 30 days? In this video, we’ll look at the benefits of drinking lemon water daily and how a glass of lemon water in the morning can improve your health and vitality.
0:00 Introduction: What happens when you drink lemon water?
0:12 Lemon water in the morning
2:37 Lemon water benefits
2:47 Lemon water skin benefits
3:57 Lemon water and digestion
4:19 Lemon water for the immune system
4:48 Lemon juice and your teeth
5:18 Benefits of lemon peel
With so much focus on high blood pressure, it’s essential not to overlook low blood pressure, which is often due to low blood volume. When you wake up in the morning, your blood volume is lowest. Low blood volume can cause dizziness when standing, poor exercise performance, and a decreased sense of well-being.
Plain water in the morning can dehydrate you by diluting essential electrolytes, especially sodium, which is vital for healthy blood volume.
Cortisol is highest at 8:00 a.m., and sodium is excellent for lowering cortisol, so salt is a great tool for a stress-free day. Himalayan sea salt is a great option, or try Baja Gold salt if you’re prone to high blood pressure.
Fresh lemon juice is an excellent source of vitamin C, which is beneficial for the skin and is a potent antioxidant that supports the inside of the arteries. Opt for organic lemons or organic lemon juice.
Lemon juice contains citric acid, which helps reduce the risk of kidney stones. Other benefits of lemon water include the following:
•Reduces the incidence of gout
•Helps phase 1 and phase 2 detoxification in the liver
•Helps thin bile and reduce the incidence of gallstones
•Supports digestion
•Helps regulate cholesterol
•Protects the insides of the arteries
•Increases microbiome diversity
•Potent antimicrobial properties
•Increases absorption of non-heme iron
If you drink lemon water daily, it's best to drink it with a straw to protect your tooth enamel. For added bioflavonoids, try blending an entire lemon with a glass of water and a pinch of salt!
If salty lemon water is too tart for you, try adding a couple of drops of liquid stevia. For added benefits, you can also add one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to the mixture.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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| 0:00.0 | What would happen if you drank lemon water every single day for 30 days? We are so focused on high blood |
| 0:06.0 | pressure. Really, no one's talking about low blood pressure where you just don't have enough volume |
| 0:10.4 | of blood in your body. When you wake up in the morning, you have the lowest volume of blood |
| 0:17.2 | compared to at the end of the day. When your blood volume is too low, if you stand up too fast, |
| 0:23.1 | you could feel dizzy. Your blood pressure might even be on the low side. If we just take an elite |
| 0:28.0 | athlete and compare that athlete to an average person that doesn't really exercise, the elite athlete |
| 0:33.6 | is carrying around 50% more blood volume. You definitely are not going to have the same |
| 0:39.8 | performance when you exercise. You're just not going to feel quite the same. I do not like |
| 0:45.0 | drinking anything in the morning because typically when I drink liquid in the morning, |
| 0:48.7 | I just don't feel right. I'll drink coffee, but I don't want to drink anything else until the |
| 0:54.0 | afternoon. And I finally realize what that is I don't want to drink anything else until the afternoon. |
| 0:54.8 | And I finally realize what that is, and I want to give you a solution. |
| 0:59.6 | If you just drink water, especially in the morning when you have the lowest blood volume, |
| 1:04.2 | you're basically going to be diluting these electrolytes, specifically sodium. |
| 1:09.3 | That's a huge mistake because you're going to be more dehydrated, |
| 1:12.3 | because it's not just water that increases the volume of blood. You also need to add some salt. |
| 1:18.5 | And then that salt will allow you to hold the water in your blood. And so just a pinch of that sea salt |
| 1:23.6 | with lemon is going to make you feel so much better, especially if you do it for 30 days. |
| 1:27.7 | And especially like one hour before you exercise as well. For some people, they might even feel |
| 1:32.3 | better if they add even more salt. And then if you also look at the circadian rhythm of the entire |
| 1:37.0 | 24 hours, where's the highest amount of cortisol in the morning at 8 a.m. And that's when you have |
| 1:42.9 | the highest level of cortisol. And did you know |
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