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like to talk about four common mistakes

that people make when they consume lemon

water I’ve done lots of videos on lemon

limes lemon water and the benefits but I

really haven’t talked about the mistakes

that people make but the main benefit of

lemon juice is what it can do for kidney

stones in preventing kidney stones but

the citrates interfere with the

formation of a kidney stone okay and I’m

talking about the calcium oxalates

and I’ve done a video recently on that

being related to a deficiency in citrate

and so one way to get more citrates is

to consume more lemon juice another

benefit of lemon water or just lemon

juice is for its vitamin C but just

remember if you have pasteurized lemon

juice the heat kills off the vitamin C

now they probably add some vitamin C in

the form of ascorbic acid which is not

the four complex so if you really want

to get the benefits of vitamin C from

lemon juice or limes

just take a lemon or a lime and then

just squeeze it in water or blend the

whole thing in a blender and you can

actually drink that down and that works

really good if you add a little bit of a

like maybe electrolyte powder which has

a little bit of stevia in there so it

makes it a nice drink plus you have this

Spike of electrolytes but if it’s

pasteurized chances are it’s not going

to have a lot of vitamin C but one of

the common symptoms of vitamin C is

bleeding gums so if you’re brushing your

teeth and you have this little pink

toothbrush suspected vitamin C

deficiency another symptom would be

fatigue another effect from lemon juice

is its antihistamine effect that’s why

it’s good for allergies histamines are

those things that your body makes in

reaction to an allergy that causes some

of the mucus and makes you tired there

to some degree kind of like a fatigue

poison another effect a lemon juice has

is its anti-fungal properties so it’s

really good for candida fungus and

bacterial infections as well so you can

use it with other things as like a

natural

antibiotic another thing that lemon

juice will do it will help prevent the

formation of uric acid so it’s good in

gout some types of gout is called

pseudogout which is really oxalates

right going into the big toe it’s not

really uric acid and so citrates are

really good to counter the effects of

that effect and then also lemon juice

can help increase the absorption of iron

as well in the body all right so let’s

just dive right into the mistakes

one is that you don’t want to consume

this lemon water right before you eat

why because even though citric acid is

an acid

when it goes into the body

it gets burned up and it turns into an

alkaline substance okay so basically

we’re alkalizing this hydrochloric acid

that we don’t want to do and that’s

going to inhibit digestion so consume

your lemon water at least maybe a half

hour to an hour before you eat anything

I consume my lemon juice in the morning

when I’m fasting so there’s no

possibility of mixing it with a food

mistake number two is you’re just

drinking this straight lemon juice

just drinking it right out of the bottle

whatever as a shot and you’re allowing

this

very very strong acid to

expose to your teeth okay I mean think

about the pH of lemon juice is a pH of

two to three that is similar to

hydrochloric acid and so if you were to

routinely do that and expose it to your

teeth it could potentially kind of break

down some of the enamel on your teeth so

what I do is I dilute this lemon juice

with water and I consume it with a straw

okay that way it avoids going on my

teeth all right mistake number three if

you have an ulcer or gastritis

which you’ll know real quick because

it’s going to burn when you consume it

it would be contraindicated you don’t

want to take anything that’s acidic if

you have this inflamed stomach or an

ulcer okay so that would be

one thing you would want to avoid but

you’ll probably very quickly recognize

if you have these conditions because

when you consume it it just it’ll burn

your stomach all right and last mistake

is that if you have alkalosis right if

you have alkalosis where

your blood is just

a little excessively alkaline I mean

it’s already alkaline slightly alkaline

but if it’s more alkaline

and that’s a condition called alkalosis

and it can aggravate that pH and make it

worse so a lot of the conditions or

symptoms that occur when your body is

too alkaline will get worse how do you

know if you have alkalosis here are some

common symptoms lightheadedness

numbness and tingling in the extremities

like your fingertips or feet tetany like

a little twitching underneath the left

eyelid or it could be anywhere in the

body rapid shallow breathing okay like

kind of a version of hyperventilating

I mean think about when you

hyperventilate right you’re getting too

much oxygen and you’re creating a CO2

deficiency

and without that CO2 you can’t create

the acid necessary to help balance the

pH people have this idea that oxygen is

the best thing in the world right CO2 is

a waste product but you need a balance

of both okay you don’t want to just have

one or the other if you have too much

oxygen like even in oxygen therapy there

are pretty major side effects especially

if it’s pure oxygen you can end up with

edema swelling pulmonary edema it can be

very dangerous because the CO2 is

necessary

to make the oxygen available to your

cells and your tissues but the point is

that when you see someone with alkalosis

they’re two alkaline they’re breathing

will be off and it will almost look like

they’re hyperventilating and then the

last symptom for alkalosis would be like

heart palpitations that type of thing

now I’ve done another video on lemon

juice that gets millions of views okay

if you haven’t checked that one out I

put it up right here