What are some of the health benefits of Lemon water? You’ve probably been advised to drink lemon water on an empty stomach so your body can digest food better the rest of the day, but have you ever stopped to check if that’s true?
Around this drink there are a lot of myths, so today we are going to tell you what its true benefits are.
- Dolores Silvestre, professor of nutrition at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University in Spain, explained to the ‘Cuídate Plus’ portal that the lemon itself does not have so many nutritional benefits, but functional ones.
Among its compounds, flavonoids stand out as beneficial to health since they are antioxidants and inhibitors of neuroinflammation. For this reason, it is said to improve the body’s response to diseases such as ischemia, retinopathy, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
- It also protects the intestinal flora due to its antimicrobial capacity, so it can be said to have positive effects on the immune system.
- Medical News Today notes that it may help treat kidney stones to some extent, but “appears to be more effective with conventional therapy.”
- Also, you can point out the benefits that drinking water regularly and in large quantities brings to your body. These are weight loss for the feeling of fullness it produces, improved mood, relief from constipation, and better athletic performance.
Finally, to resolve the question we raise about its fasting benefits, the truth is that it doesn’t matter how long you drink water with lemon, but you will see that your body loves it for all the properties mentioned above.
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