A cup of hot water with lemon is a morning ritual for millions of people, including Beyoncé and Jennifer Aniston.
They do it in the belief that it is “good” for the liver and helps the digestive system.
But drinking hot lime water, lime-infused water, can undermine your health efforts.
Dentist Hannah Woolnow, spokeswoman for the British Dental Association, says: “The habit of drinking hot lime water is often misrepresented as a panacea for a host of ailments. But what worries me most is the harm this habit can cause.” to your teeth, which in many cases is permanent and irreversible.
Dentist Nilesh Parmar, who manages Parmar Dental in Essex, agrees: “I know many patients who drink lime water and I wish they didn’t. they hear.”
According to Professor David Lloyd, Consultant Hepatologist at the Royal Leicester Hospital, there is no support that drinking hot water and lemon “purifies or detoxifies the liver” as it supposedly “detoxifies” the liver, or rather heals the damage done liver. You need to stop doing the things that make him work so hard and create problems in the first place, like drinking or using drugs.
This, along with drinking about two liters of water a day, will keep your liver healthy. A cup of hot water and a lemon can’t do that. Also, the function of the liver is to detoxify, and there is no such thing as “detoxification” of the liver itself.
Dr Steven Mann, consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, says there is equally little evidence to support the use of hot water and lemon as a digestive aid.
He vehemently rejects the idea put forward by some “natural health experts” that hot water and lemon stimulate gastric acid secretion, helping you move forward (by stimulating undulating muscle contractions).
“The only thing that water and lemons do is replace fluids, which is necessary to keep the body hydrated, but that’s because of the water, not the lemon,” he says.
Also, people who are prone to reflux, where acid and other stomach contents are rushed down the throat, will find that lemon water exacerbates the problem because it is acidic.
Hot water and lemon may seem like a social media-inspired trend, but they first became popular in 1941 when American nutritionist Stanley Burroughs created The Master Cleanser, a diet that formulated “liquid cleansers” including water and lemon as a natural way to cleanse. organism. remove toxins and other impurities.
However, the drink’s enduring popularity is partly due to the fact that lemons contain vitamin C, which is essential for protecting cells from damage, speeding up wound healing, and maintaining healthy blood vessels and cartilage.
But when it comes to teeth, hot water with lemon is unhealthy — not least because lemon juice is highly acidic and can dissolve enamel’s hard, protective surface over time.
Enamel damage can also cause pain and sensitivity as it exposes nerve endings.
After the enamel wears off, the only option is to treat the damage with some kind of coating, such as fillings.
If the caries is so extensive that it reaches the pulp – the innermost layer of the tooth – and especially if there is an infection, it can lead to root canal treatment or even tooth extraction.
Dentist Alan Clark of Belfast’s Paste Dental explains: “Hot water can exacerbate this effect by causing rapid expansion and contraction of the enamel, increasing the risk of enamel erosion and leading to sensitivity, cavities and even tooth loss.”
And saliva can act as an acid buffer to some extent, not least because it contains a form of calcium that can soften some of the damage caused by acid, essentially “remineralizing” the enamel.
“The problem is that since it is considered a healthy drink, people also fill a water bottle with lemon slices and drink it throughout the day,” says Nilesh Parmar.
However, they constantly expose their teeth to acidic water, and it is this long-term exposure that causes them the most harm.
And if you really need to drink water with lemon, “reduce the damage by mixing lemon with cold or lukewarm water instead of (hot water).”
Rinse your mouth with plain water immediately after drinking.
Source: Daily Mail
