Why Lemon Juice is Both Good and Bad for Arthritis?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 March 2020
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Is lemon juice good for arthritis, or is lemon juice bad for arthritis? Well, it’s actually both. In this video, I want to explain why lemon juice is both good and bad for arthritis.
Gout arthritis - High levels of uric acid.
Gout symptoms get better when you make things alkaline. When you consume lemon juice and it’s metabolized, it turns into an alkaline substance. This makes lemon juice a good remedy for gout. But, the lemon juice remedy for gout is really just a quick fix. It will help you feel better, but you still need to work on the real cause of the issue.
Osteoarthritis - Calcium deposits within the joints.
Osteoarthritis symptoms get worse when things are more alkaline. When you alkalize the body, you can create a flare-up of osteoarthritis. With osteoarthritis, you need to acidify the body by taking apple cider vinegar.
As a side note, when doing intermittent fasting, your body will produce more uric acid. If you’re sensitive to uric acid, it may cause a flare-up of gout. In this case, you can take lemon juice or potassium citrate to alkalize the body.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and bad for arthritis. |
| 0:51.8 | Now that's kind of conflicting so let me explain what I'm talking about. |
| 0:56.0 | If we compare gout arthritis with osteoarthritis, there's two different things happening. |
| 1:03.7 | With gout arthritis you have high levels of uric acid. |
| 1:06.7 | Now with osteoarthritis, you don't have uric acid, you have calcium deposits within |
| 1:11.5 | the joints, and you have a breakdown of the joints and you have |
| 1:13.6 | inflammation. So gout symptoms get better when you make things more alkaline, okay, when you alkalize the body a little bit more. |
| 1:23.0 | With osteoarthritis, you typically get worse when you make things more alkaline. |
| 1:29.0 | And that's probably because of the relationship between calcium and pH. |
| 1:33.9 | If your stomach, for example, is too alkaline, |
| 1:36.5 | you will not be able to absorb calcium. |
| 1:38.7 | So when you alkalize the body, |
| 1:40.2 | you can actually create a flare up with arthritis. And as a side note, you can also create a flare up with arthritis and as a side note you can also create a |
| 1:45.2 | worsening of allergies by the way so in osteoarthritis you want to |
| 1:51.0 | acidify the body a little bit more and that's why we recommend |
| 1:54.2 | apple cider vinegar. When you consume lemon or lemon juice and it gets broken down |
| 2:01.2 | metabolized it actually turns alkaline. It turns into a base and that |
| 2:06.3 | worsens gout because it makes things more alkaline. So citric acid, whether it's from |
| 2:11.2 | lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges. |
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