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🍋💧The health benefits of drinking lemon water and how to make it at home 🍋💧

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Lemon water is simply the juice of lemons mixed with waters, you can chop the lemon and add it to the water and you can also add in some mint or cucumber slices/juice. Both lemon juice and lemon peel extract hold antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal properties! Everyone has a different way of making lemon water at home, in this post I will list the benefits of drinking lemon water. A lemon costs under 30p from a food store and can do so much for you. You can drink lemon water cold or warm.

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🍋Effects of drinking lemon water on the body 🍋

Lemons are high in vitamin c, squeezing some juice into water will provide you with a dose of vitamin c. This helps the body with iron absorption and vitamin c can work wonders for your skin especially if you have dry skin. Vitamin c can also help with sleep disorders. So getting vitamin c from lemon water sounds like a good plan.

Lemons are rich in pectin which can help keep your cravings at bay leading to help with weight loss. So if your looking to lose a little weight then give lemon water a go. If you suffer from inflammation due to build up of uric acid then lemon water can help dissolve it! Leading to less aches an pains.

Can help with wound healing as vitamin c is important for immune system function and this plays a part in wound healing. Some studies are suggesting that drinking lemon water can help treat kidney stones, drinking more water can help prevent kidney stones in general regardless if there is lemon in there or not. Click here to read my post on benefits of drinking more water each day.

🍋A few delicious lemon water ideas & recipes for you to try at home🍋

Simple lemon water recipe : Fill a jar or cup with fresh water, cut a lemon in two and squeeze the juice into the water. Cut the lemon into slices and add to the water then stir. ( I take off the skins as I feel they may have pesticides on them but its up t you what you want to do ) You can put the lemon water into the fridge for 30 minuets as some say this helps with the flavour.

Hot lemon water with honey recipe : This recipe is fantastic for sore throats, colds or flus. A lovely little immune support drink and your a dose of vitamin c. Simply add 1 cup (237 ml) of water into a sauce pan. Heat the water on high until it comes to a boil, which should take approximately a few minuets. Take the pan off the heat and add in your lemon juice and honey, mix until it dissolves. Add your mixture to a cup or jar and enjoy ( Be careful with the heat! )

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Vitamin b12 deficiency | The hidden epidemic 🤐🤔😯

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You can prevent vitamin b12 deficiency by eating enough eggs, meat and seafood or supplementing with vitamin b12 chewable or if you very low on b12 the gp may tell you to get vitamin b12 shots for a few weeks. Sometimes our bodies can have trouble absorbing vitamin b12 even if you are eating a healthy diet.. disorders such as pernicious anaemia or crohns disease.

Each person’s symptoms may vary. Symptoms may include:

  • Weak muscles
  • Numb or tingling feeling in hands and feet
  • Trouble walking
  • Nausea
  • Decreased appetite
  • Weight loss
  • Irritability
  • Lack of energy or tiring easily (fatigue)
  • Diarrhea
  • Smooth and tender tongue
  • Fast heart rate

Its worth asking your GP to check your vitamin b12 levels if you have any of the above symptoms, a lot of people have low levels and don’t even know it ! You run the risk of going to the doctor with the above symptoms only to be told to take the wrong medications.

Very low vitamin b12 levels can cause restless leg syndrome where your legs have muscle spams and a big major red flag of a deficiency is colder extremities and tingling in hands and feet. The sad thing is that when your levels are low for to long it can cause irreversible nerve damage!

I once diagnosed a friend of mine who was going to the gp with restless legs, bad headaches, vertigo and skin rashes, She obviously had depression suffering these constant symptoms.. she got worse and started getting shortness of breath and pain in her heart. I remember her telling me about this over a period of months. The gp gave her antidepressants and painkillers and also told her the symptom’s were panic attacks and just in her head ( hate when doctors tell that to people! ) She was so sad and unhappy and would tell me every new symptom, she must have went to the gp more than 30 times, begging them for help but every time just had pills thrown her way. After thinking it all through carefully and doing a bit of research on my friends symptoms, I finally realised she must have vitamin b12 deficiency. I sent her a large list of symptoms as there are so many, more than i listed in this blog post. She had them all.. she was stunned. She read up on it online and then I told her to ask gp to do blood test and see what’s happening to her b12 levels. She was dangerously low.. so low that if she had gave it more time she would have slipped into a coma or cardiac arrest. Shockingly she had believed the doctors that it was just her “anxiety“. My friend could have lost her life because of this situation. She was also swallowing pills that she didn’t need to be taking, the doctor ordered her on a course of vitamin b12 jags and she started to get well very slowly. Please don’t just take a gps word for it.. sometimes they get it wrong!