Amazing Benefits of Eating Lemons Peel, White Part & Seeds: Really have the peel, pith, and the seeds 5 times more nutrition than juice?
You usually take a lemon, cut it in half, squeeze it into your water, throw the peel into the garbage dustbin and then you drink your lemon water thinking that you’re getting all these amazing nutrients.
but did you realize that the peel of the white part which is called the pith and the seeds have five times more nutrition than the juice and the pulp? Now I’m going to talk about the benefits of using the whole lemon. After reading this, you will never waste the peel and seeds again. So let me explain:
Benefits of Eating Whole Fresh Lemon:
Typically lemons are loaded with vitamin C unless it’s pasteurized or you’re consuming lemon juice from some bottle. so if it’s pasteurized or it’s heated, there’s hardly any vitamin C unless they add it in there. but there is Potassium, Magnesium, B6, B1, B2, Copper, and Vitamin E if you use actual fresh lemon.
The benefits of lemon water specifically
- reducing fat on your liver
- reducing cholesterol
- helping you lose weight
- anti-aging
- anti-cancer effects: Lemon has specific compounds that can help kill cancer cells
- kidney stone prevention: the benefits of lemons for kidney stone prevention especially if you’re on the ketogenic diet and you’re prone to kidney stones
- vitamin C in lemon aids your immune system
- lemon can inhibit collagen destruction
Benefits of the peel, pith, and the seeds:
but if you actually consume the white part of the lemon and the outer peel and the seeds you’re going to get some additional very cool benefits that I want to educate you on now.
Vitamin C Complex:
vitamin C deficiency is related to something called scurvy, where you lose collagen in your joints and you have a lot of fatigue. You might say that scurvy doesn’t exist now. but I think there are subclinical versions of scurvy, that people have and they don’t even really know that they had it. in the 30s, scientists have found that using straight ascorbic acid, which is considered vitamin C, (it’s really not rather it’s just one part of the vitamin C complex) does not work as well as using the whole vitamin C complex from lemons, paprika or oranges. In other words, they found some other additional things in the whole fruit like lemons that are not in ascorbic acid and so back in the 30s they identified vitamin P.
Vitamin P:
Now they don’t call it vitamin P anymore, because typically vitamins fulfill certain criteria and vitamin P does not fulfill that criterion. but vitamin P stands for permeability as in vascular permeability or capillary permeability or microvascular permeability.
Now permeability is basically the ability of your vascular system to allow things to move in and out between the vascular systems. so there are various gaps that occur. when you have too much of a gap you’ll have symptoms like bleeding gums, and gingivitis. you might get spider veins, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, or you might get a bleeding nose or edema. So they found this P factor or vitamin P helps to tighten up those junctions and gaps and prevents all these symptoms.
So the P factor is really part of the vitamin C complex that’s so typically in nature. you don’t just have ascorbic acid. you will have ascorbic acid which is an antioxidant portion & you also have the P factor (which is really the bioflavonoids) while you take lemon. and there are about eight thousand different bioflavonoids in the Peel and seeds.
Vitamin J:
What I’m going to talk about are the citrus bioflavonoids is these bioflavonoids are part of the vitamin C complex. The other parts of the vitamin C complex would be the J factor or vitamin J. But vitamin J helps
- increase the oxygenation in your lungs.
- It helps you breathe better.
- Then you also have copper in the vitamin C complex in an enzyme form, called tyrosinase, and that copper is really important in collagen formation.
- This is why vitamin C is so good for collagen, joint health, etc.
Vitamin K1:
You also have vitamin K1 which is part of the vitamin C complex, which also helps to prevent bleeding. because vitamin K1 is involved with clotting. so when you’re consuming the white part in the outside part of the lemon, you are getting a tremendous amount of this extra vitamin P, or let’s just call it the bioflavonoids, which can really help you in many different ways including some additional benefits for the eye.
Think about what happens in with diabetes:
- you have a lot of damage in the capillaries,
- you have damage to the nervous system because the capillaries are no longer feeding the nerves,
- you get peripheral neuropathy,
- you have a lot of problems with the eye as in diabetic retinopathy.
- in diabetes, you have macular degeneration.
- you get cataracts, you get glaucoma, dry eyes
- you have a lot of leaking blood through the capillaries in the eye caused by the destruction of the high glucose.
but You actually take these bioflavonoids from lemons. you can greatly reduce the complications that occur from diabetes. You just need to try this once to see and once you try this you’re going to like it. you’re going to feel good and you’re going to want to do this every day with one lemon.
How to Take: Recipies
you’re going to blend it, make sure the lemon is an organic lemon. blend the whole thing with seeds unless the seeds bother your stomach. it’s good for the liver and especially a fatty liver and not to mention, for your skin, and gives you all these other great benefits.
some people might find that they have a sensitivity or gastritis in their stomach. so they might take the seeds out. but there’s a lot of nutrition in these seeds. they’re not poisonous like eating cherry seeds or apricot seeds. things like the seeds from lemons or limes are totally fun.
- Take eight ounces of water, one cup of water,
- Put it in the blender take the whole lemon and blend it on down for probably 30 to 45 seconds.
- It will make this whitish drink, that’s very very bitter.
- You know how to offset the bitterness. I usually like to use liquid stevia drops and depending on your taste you might want to try
- Drop just five drops and see if that’s sufficient. some people like it a little bit sweeter, so put up to 10 drops.
- and then just slug it down. it’s actually quite delicious.
You can also use frozen blueberries instead of stevia. you mix a cup of frozen blueberries with your lemon and blend it on down. It makes a delicious lemon blueberry shake. So try this every day not just for a fatty liver but to get some extra benefits too.
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