每天喝檸檬水有助于減輕炎癥

每天喝檸檬水有助于減輕炎癥

Inflammation is the immune system's response to a wide variety of health threats, including those from toxins, allergens, pathogens, and injury. As functional a response as inflammation is, however, when it becomes chronic, even at low levels, it can lead to a number of other threats to health, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and various cancers, among other conditions.

炎癥是免疫系統(tǒng)對各種健康威脅的反應(yīng)，包括毒素、過敏原、病原體和傷害。然而，與炎癥一樣具有功能性的反應(yīng)是，當(dāng)它變得慢性時，即使是在較低水平上，也會導(dǎo)致許多其他健康威脅，包括糖尿病、高血壓和各種癌癥等。

Fortunately, if you drink lemon water every day, your body may experience less inflammation. That's because lemons are a great source of — you guessed it — vitamin C, which studies show has anti-inflammatory properties.

幸運的是，如果你每天喝檸檬水，你的身體可能會少發(fā)炎。這是因為檸檬是維生素C的重要來源，研究表明它具有抗炎作用。

For example, in a 2015 study published in the scientific journal, Drug Design, Development and Therapy, scientists recruited 64 people who had both obesity and either diabetes or high blood pressure. For a period of eight weeks, half were given vitamin C supplements, and half were not. At the end of those eight weeks, the levels of inflammatory markers in those who had taken vitamin C were significantly lower than they had been at the start. By contrast, those who had not supplemented with vitamin C showed no such change.

例如，在2015年發(fā)表在《藥物設(shè)計、開發(fā)和治療》科學(xué)雜志上的一項研究中，科學(xué)家招募了64名同時患有肥胖癥、糖尿病或高血壓的患者。在八周的時間里，一半服用維生素C補充劑，另一半不服用。在這八周結(jié)束時，服用維生素C的患者的炎癥標(biāo)志物水平明顯低于開始時。相比之下，那些沒有補充維生素C的人沒有表現(xiàn)出這種變化。