9 Benefits of Warm Water |with 🍋| in the AM

1. DETOX

Natural health advocates argue that hot water might help the body detoxify. When water is hot enough to raise a person’s body temperature, it can cause sweating. Sweating expels toxins and can help clean the pores.

2. WEIGHT LOSS

Research supports the idea that drinking more water can help a person lose weight. This more than likely is because drinking water increases feelings of fullness. Water also helps the body absorb nutrients + it flushes out waste.

A study published in 2003 Trusted Source found

1) that switching from drinking cold water to hot water could increase weight loss

2) drinking 500 ml of water before a meal increased metabolism by 30 percent.

Drinking water helps to keep the digestive system moving. As the water moves through your stomach and intestines, the body is better able to eliminate waste.

The theory is that hot water can also dissolve and dissipate the food you’ve eaten that your body might have had trouble digesting.

3. MAY IMPROVE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION

Not getting enough water, hot or cold, can have negative effects on your nervous system functioning AKA, ultimately your mood and brain function are bound to be influenced.

4. MAY DECREASE STRESS LEVELS

Since drinking hot water helps improve central nervous system functions, you might end up feeling less anxious if you drink it.

Dehydration is a common cause of constipation, so this may help relieve constipation Staying hydrated helps soften stool and makes it easier to pass, resulting in keeping you feeling more “regular.”

5. IMPROVED CIRCULATION

It is a vasodilator, meaning it expands the blood vessels, improving circulation which helps muscles relax and reduce pain.

6. HELP WITH COLDS & CONGESTION

Hot teas, and medicinal drinks feel great when we’re under the weather, but hot water alone can be enough to help keep a lot of cold-like symptoms at bay + help mucous break up and move through the body faster. AKA, it spends less time mucking up your nose.

The steam created by hot water can help unclog sinuses, relieving sinus pressure, pain and even help with “coughing fits”.

7. PROMOTE HAIR HEALTH

Hot water energizes the parts of the nervous system that reach your hair roots, helping to keep it healthy. It can also promote accelerated hair growth.

8. KEEPS SKIN HEALTHY

Seeing as how we know that warm water helps removes body toxins, it would only make sense that it is also doing a lot to assist your gorgeous complexion.

Toxins age skin faster than normal, and getting rid of them with hot water in your system will help the body repair skin cells, increasing skin elasticity + make skin smoother as well!

If let around, those toxins can cause acne-related skin infections. #YUCK

9. IMPROVES DENTAL HEALTH

Cold water increases sensitivity, which may cause problems for previous dental work, or even make it easier for fillings to fall out. Hot water can also kill germs and help prevent toothaches.