Your bloodstream is a tiny superhighway of busy little cells commuting between organs and systems, carrying oxygen, water, nutrients and waste. Everything you eat and drink affects this complicated and elegant system, but not always in the ways that you might believe. Detoxing your blood through certain foods, like lemon juice, is simply not possible. But adding lemon juice to your diet may have certain benefits.
Blood Facts
Your blood is alive, and as a living thing it needs to be nourished, according to the Franklin Institute. The vitamins and minerals that you take in help to feed and support your blood cells. A diet full of trans-fats, toxins and empty calories does not properly nourish your blood cells, making it harder for them to nourish your body. But simply drinking fresh lemon juice will not scour all of the toxins and fats out of your bloodstream.
Detoxing Facts
Detoxing in the sense of forcibly expelling toxins from your body at an accelerated rate is not physically possible. Your body has several awesome detoxifying systems in place. Your kidneys, liver and lungs work together to process, neutralize and expel toxins. The rate at which they do this is set, and it is not possible for you to speed it up. But by avoiding trans-fats, chemical additives, refined starches and other substances that your body has to work harder to process, you can support those systems while they do their jobs.
Lemon Juice Facts
Freshly squeezed lemon juice is high in vitamin C, which, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, is an extremely effective antioxidant. When you breathe and engage in other involuntary metabolic processes, you create internal byproducts called free radicals. Free radicals can damage your DNA and RNA, which may contribute to the occurrence of certain cancers and also to some of the problems you face as you age. Antioxidants like the vitamin C in lemon juice help to neutralize free radicals. Vitamin C also supports other antioxidants like vitamin E.
Benefits and Warning
Adding a bit of lemon juice to your daily drinking water offers you some extra vitamin C as well as a bit of flavoring. This can keep you from getting bored with drinking water, especially if you experiment with adding fresh mint, a cinnamon stick or a few crushed berries. Drinking lemon juice and water, either alone or as a part of any fad diet concoction, in place of meals does not clean waste out of your blood. It simply deprives you of the calories, protein and carbohydrates that your blood cells need to help clean out the waste in your blood.
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