Here’s a fast recipe for anti-inflammatory detox water that can greatly improve your skin, gut health, lower blood sugar, reduce inflammation and help you lose weight when you drink it daily. You need only 3 ingredients and one of them is water.

Can’t believe we'll say it, but we actually love detox drinks. Not because we think they will magically change our body composition and get rid of toxins even if we eat junk food all day.

We love them because they’re an simple way to add antioxidants and more anti-inflammatory foods to our diet.

Even if we don’t feel like making an anti-inflammatory smoothie or a salad, there’s always time to infuse some water with healthy foods!

Like lemon and ginger.

They’re both notable when it comes to detoxification and reducing systemic inflammation in the body. A little bit goes a long way.

You’ll Love This Anti-Inflammatory Detox Water

We've talked about the lemon ginger drink We make every day a few times already, but we've never actually shared a recipe.

Today is the day, folks!

This is the ginger lemon water we drink most days!

It’s refreshing, makes us want to snack less (otherwise we snack all the time), helps us drink less coffee, but more water and therefore makes us feel more hydrated and energized and less bloated.

Drinking this anti-inflammatory water is a simple way to improve your skin, digestion and to make your belly feel and look flatter.

Last time we made it, we actually hadn’t eaten anything until 1 pm and we felt kinda dizzy after drinking a glass. It doesn’t sound great, but it’s because lemon and ginger both can lower blood sugar. And we guess that happened to us, because we couldn’t eat within the next hour, we had to leave, but thankfully, it all turned out well.

This quality of lemon and ginger is a good thing in general, especially when you want to eat some refined carbs after (like bread – source). We guess we tested the science without the bread.

How it comes together

There are so many different options to make this anti-inflammatory detox water.

But here’s how we do it:

1 lemon, juice of
1 tsp grated ginger
4 glasses of filtered water
Optional: ice to cool

You mix everything together and drink it throughout the day. You can keep the detox water in the fridge as well, but we usually don’t do it and drink it within 3-4 hours.

If you don’t like to have chunks of ginger in the water what we often do is blend everything in our blender, to make sure we've got the good stuff from ginger and then strain it. This way you keep the flavor and the antioxidants, but not the pulp.

Another option is: Instead of grating ginger and juicing lemon, you can also slice both and infuse the water like that. This would make a less intense flavor.

Health Benefits of Lemon

We know it’s a well-kept secret, but lemon has a good amount of vitamin C.

How much?

Well, by eating one lemon, for only 24kcal you buy 44.5 mg vitamin C or 74% DV. What a discount right?

Imagine if you ate 2 lemons?

Stop it!

Who can handle 48 kcal?

Well, in case you decide to take that chance, know that getting enough vitamin C has many health and beauty benefits, among others:

antioxidant (to prevent diseases like cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases)
anti-inflammatory (study)
boosts your immune system
increases iron absorption
prevents wrinkles
prevents skin dehydration
important for proper wound healing
helps you stay calm
prevents hair loss
fat-burning (lower level of vitamin C in the body is associated with higher degree of overweight)
important for strong nails and hair

Lemon’s acidity can also lower glycemic index of high GI foods like rice or bread (article).

Health Benefits of Ginger

Ginger is one of those foods that got famous in recent years, because it’s healthy. That’s also the reason it makes it into our simple anti-inflammatory detox water recipe. This and the fact that it’s so fresh. Ginger also:

lowers blood sugar
reduces inflammation
is an antioxidant (to prevent diseases like cancer, cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s)
fights fungal infections
helps treat nausea
can help with arthritis
reduces muscle & joint pain
can help with constipation

Benefits of Water (yeah, really!)

Last, but not least: water! It’s surprising how much drinking the right amount of water can do for you:

better energy levels
improved memory
better skin
actually burns more calories & prevents overeating
better digestion

For more benefits of drinking enough water check out this article.

We hope you enjoy this simple detox drink – remember, you don’t need to change EVERYTHING, but small changes like this add up and can make you feel great (even if you’re not solid with diet and exercise!).

So do whatever you can and make the right choices for yourself today 🙂

During the next weeks we'll be sharing more detox water recipes, because we've been making them a lot lately.

Detox water for skin and gut health, anti-inflammatory

Yield: 3-4
Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 5 minutes

Ingredients

1 lemon, juice of
2 tsp grated ginger
4 cups of filtered water
Optional: ice to cool

Method

Mix everything and drink it throughout the day.
You can keep the detox water in the fridge as well, but we usually don’t do it and drink it within 3-4 hours.
Another easy way we like to make this water is to add everything to a blender - whole peeled lemon, water, a knob of peeled ginger. Blend until smooth and your water is ready (the foam you see on top comes when you blend).

Notes

You can strain the ginger lemon water to remove any small bits. This will help, especially with the hair-like fibers from the ginger. We usually don't do it (makes us feel like a cat with a fur ball).