Daily Cleansing Lemon Water
“Keep is Simple” & “Take baby steps” are good rules of thumb when making change
Embracing a healthy diet and lifestyle should not be about repeated dramatic overhauls, restriction and denial of entire food groups, restarts, mental flagellation, hours of food preparation, a hunt for obscure superfoods or weighing and calculating your food intake! This is the antithesis of simplicity, of ease, of loving yourself.
Let’s talk about the simple habit of drinking lemon water each morning:
If you choose to squeeze half a lemon into a glass of warmed water each morning….add cold to the freshly squeezed lemon juice and top the glass up with a little boiled from the kettle……this small act of kindness to self will bring you a myriad of health benefits.
WHY drink Lemon water to start to the day:
• Clears the skin and relieve constipation
• Acidifies the stomach helping to relieve GERD and reflux.
• Prevents your proton pump from going into overdrive causing acid reflux
• De-natures proteins so that the amino acids can be absorbed easily
• Supports the digestion of minerals from food you eat throughout the day
• Boosts immunity (the stomach can be one of the bodies first line of defenses from bacteria and viruses)
• Causes you gall bladder to clench and release bile into the digestive tract. Bile is important because it binds with excess cholesterol and toxins in your gut to carry them out of the body in the stool…your daily poop.
• Alkalizes the body, hydrates the digestive tract and flushes the liver washing through toxins, excess hormones and chemicals it has worked to eliminate during the night
Check your nails sister…..if you have very marked long ridges on your nails, the chances are that you mineral absorption could benefit from the support of a daily morning lemon water habit.
Another one of my mantras is “GOOD, BETTER, BEST!”
Drinking a glass of water at the start of each day is GOOD, Adding lemon water to that glass is BETTER, and here is the simple addition for BEST:
Add a ½ teaspoon of chia seeds to your lemon water!
The morning lemon water has so many health benefits and that doubles with the addition of chia seeds.
Adding chia provides you with:
• Soluble AND insoluble fibre. Insoluble is the cleansing scrubbing brush of your gut and the soluble hydrates as it drags water within itself to the colon and pulls toxins and excess hormone out of the body with it.
• Valuable minerals such as magnesium and calcium which will be easily absorbed into the body in that acid environment.
• They are rich in anti-inflammatory omega 3 fatty acids which support brain health, skin health and prevent inflammation across the body.
SERIOUSLY, why would we not do this?
Daily optimal health is all about embracing small changes such as this one and easing into a more nutritious way of living, being and enjoying life.
(Drink lemon water with a straw if you whiten your teeth or are worried about your enamel)
If you want more information about the foods that will support your beautiful body through the hormonal changes of peri-menopause, you can get hold of my FREE guide The Ten Essential Foods for the Midlife Woman here.
