Lemon Juice Helps Repair Your Liver

[ddjd]

Fresh lemon juice can help protect your liver from alcohol induced damage. A Chinese study was conducted on mice and the results were published in the journal Biomed Research International. The study used 30 male mice and results showed lemon juice “exerted hepatoprotective effects on alcohol-induced liver injury”.

Liver impairment in the mice given ethanol was measured via elevations in the liver enzymes ALT and AST. Lemon juice was actually able to return ALT and AST in the blood of the mice to normal. The researchers commented also that it “remarkably improved the liver histopathological changes”. Other harmful effects of ethanol consumption were also reversed by the lemon juice; these included increased lipid peroxidation and increased liver triglyceride levels. These are quite amazing findings.

What is it in lemons that has these remarkable benefits? The researchers believe several compounds are responsible: vitamin C, essential oils, pectin and flavonoids. Vitamin C can certainly prevent oxidative damage and lipid peroxidation. The pectin and essential oils in lemon help to improve the health of the gut lining, thereby reducing waste products that arrive at the liver via a leaky gut. Alcohol does increase intestinal permeability and allows bacteria from the gut to travel to the liver, potentially damaging liver cells.
Lemons really are a wonder fruit. Although this study was conducted on mice; alcohol, drugs and other toxins harm the liver of mice and humans via the same mechanisms. Even if you don’t drink much alcohol, the toxins we are regularly exposed to in our environment can cause harm to our liver cells.

If you are concerned about your liver health, I strongly urge you to make fresh lemon juice a regular part of your diet.

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[Matestube]

Fresh lemon juice can help protect your liver from alcohol induced damage. A Chinese study was conducted on mice and the results were published in the journal Biomed Research International. The study used 30 male mice and results showed lemon juice “exerted hepatoprotective effects on alcohol-induced liver injury”.

Liver impairment in the mice given ethanol was measured via elevations in the liver enzymes ALT and AST. Lemon juice was actually able to return ALT and AST in the blood of the mice to normal. The researchers commented also that it “remarkably improved the liver histopathological changes”. Other harmful effects of ethanol consumption were also reversed by the lemon juice; these included increased lipid peroxidation and increased liver triglyceride levels. These are quite amazing findings.

What is it in lemons that has these remarkable benefits? The researchers believe several compounds are responsible: vitamin C, essential oils, pectin and flavonoids. Vitamin C can certainly prevent oxidative damage and lipid peroxidation. The pectin and essential oils in lemon help to improve the health of the gut lining, thereby reducing waste products that arrive at the liver via a leaky gut. Alcohol does increase intestinal permeability and allows bacteria from the gut to travel to the liver, potentially damaging liver cells.
Lemons really are a wonder fruit. Although this study was conducted on mice; alcohol, drugs and other toxins harm the liver of mice and humans via the same mechanisms. Even if you don’t drink much alcohol, the toxins we are regularly exposed to in our environment can cause harm to our liver cells.

If you are concerned about your liver health, I strongly urge you to make fresh lemon juice a regular part of your diet.

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I would rather venture to say (as the researchers themselves didn't know for sure the mechanism at play) that it's the bitterness of the lemon causing it to empty its excess bile and cholesterol from the ducts, allowing it to function normally.
Not so much a "repair effect" from vitamin c or flavonoids.

It's a mechanism common to all bitter foods.

 

[Artifex Bellator]

would this same effect work with water and fresh lemon juice together?

 

[InChristAlone]

Lemons do cause a bile dump, but it's going to get reabsorbed on a low fiber diet so need to analyze if the same effects are seen on low fiber diets.

 

[ddjd]

would this same effect work with water and fresh lemon juice together?

Yes you definitely need to add some water i would say

 

[YourUniverse]

Water, lemon juice, and maple syrup make a tasty lemonade. Add cayenne pepper, and you have the master cleanse.

 

[ursidae]

A (lemon juice, raw honey, mint, ginger, water) lemonade is a life saver when I eat something that doesn't agree with me

 

[ddjd]

@YourUniverse @ursidae something else I've noticed is lemon juice raises my temperature SIGNIFICANTLY. pretty incredible actually

 

[YourUniverse]

@YourUniverse @ursidae something else I've noticed is lemon juice raises my temperature SIGNIFICANTLY. pretty incredible actually

I'm very much enjoying lemonade.
I like soaking the peels in the sugar before pouring boiling water over them. Theres D-limonene in the peels.