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the health benefits of citrus okay we’re talking  about lemons and limes now of course orange and  

grapefruit are also citrus but those two have  too much sugar so we’re going to mainly talk  

about lemons and limes so the citrus fruits  have many many phytonutrients okay we’re  

going to mainly talk about the flavonoids okay  one type of flavonoid is called bioflavonoids  

which is part of the vitamin c complex and very  very important in gum health like your gums if  

you have bleeding gums it can actually reverse  that pretty quick so i’m not just talking about  

vitamin c being ascorbic acid i’m talking about  the whole vitamin c complex and this is why i  

encourage people to get the majority of their  vitamins from food because you get the complete  

complex like the vitamin c complex like citrus  fruits are the best for that but you can also  

get these phytonutrient benefits from not just  consuming the fruit but the leaves the roots  

and the flowers of the lemon and the lime  tree now lemon and limes have pretty much the  

same nutrients there they have b1 b2 b3 b5 b6 b9  which is folate they have calcium iron magnesium  

potassium and zinc but i wouldn’t depend  on getting your vitamins and minerals  

from lemons and limes the thing that you want to  get from lemons and limes is the flavonoids okay  

why because they have some very cool properties  anti-cancer anti-bacterial anti-viral anti-fungal  

anti-diabetic now i’ve done so many videos with  different plants and vegetables and herbs and  

it seems like they all have these same common  benefits why because it’s part of the survival  

mechanism that was created from that plant but the  cool thing about that is you can eat those plants  

to get those amazing benefits that have been  created over a very long period of time but  

the citrus flavonoids also have the capacity  of decreasing central nervous system disorders  

decreasing formation of kidney stones  especially the oxalates calcium oxalate stones  

they can inhibit the formation of the stones as  well as calcium phosphate stones as well now the  

vitamin c in citrus can completely annihilate  and get rid of scurvy what’s scurvy that’s a  

very severe vitamin c deficiency where you have  frequent infections frequent colds cracked lips  

crack corners of your mouth that’s what i  had growing up i didn’t know what it was  

now i’ve done other videos talking about  the vitamin complex specifically b2 and b3  

deficiencies creating cracked lips right here but  it can also be vitamin c in fact when i was a kid  

i think the reason why i had those cracks in the  corners of my mouth because i was consuming so  

much sugar and when you consume sugar you  can’t at the same time absorb vitamin c so  

it was a vitamin c deficiency that created that  problem and also smoking so if you’re a smoker  

you’re going to block vitamin c absorption that’s  really coming from a vitamin c deficiency because  

as you smoke you’re blocking any ability to  absorb that vitamin c one of the symptoms of  

scurvy is ulcers in your mouth on the ends of the  mouth and on the tongue now the other real big  

symptom of scurvy is spongy bleeding gums so you  brush your teeth and you look at your toothbrush  

and it’s like red what is that that’s a vitamin c  deficiency but it could be you’re just consuming  

too much sugar or you’re smoking you know and that  could be blocking vitamin c or you’re just not  

consuming vitamin c from the complete complex  maybe you’re getting it from some vitamin but  

it’s all synthetic and it’s it’s not the same  thing because vitamin c is involved in collagen  

and supporting your capillary strength so if you  don’t have that vitamin c complex the capillaries  

are fragile and they break easily and here you are  you go to the dentist and they give you all this  

medication because now you have gingivitis and you  go down this whole series of things but in reality  

it comes down to your your diet now citrus  flavonoids can decrease the risk of getting gout  

okay inhibiting the uric acid formation it can  also help to act as a diuretic to get rid of  

excess fluid and increase bile and peristalsis  so in certain countries they use a lot of lemon  

for digestive issues after you eat i just  recommend using lemon in your diet for many  

reasons not just helping your digestion but  some of these other things as well and lemon  

is very very um sour and it can help your liver  it can help the production of bile which by  

the way um counters constipation because when  you’re deficient bile you become constipated so  

bile is helps lubricate the colon basically and  the phytonutrients and citrus help peristalsis  

so basically just helps your digestion from a  couple different angles all right there you have  

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