4. Combats Cancer
It’s not any kind of miracle cure, but you may find that drinking more lemon will help you to reduce your likelihood of getting cancer.
This is because that good-old vitamin C that we have already been raving about is also a potent antioxidant. Antioxidants are substances that occur naturally in the body and in our food, which have the significant benefit of being able to neutralize the effects of free radicals.
Free radicals meanwhile are substances that travel around the body and can cause a large amount of damage when they come into contact with the cells. In this short term, this damage can eventually add up to become visible from the surface of the skin. In other words, oxidative damage (as it is known) is one of the big causes of the visible signs of aging!
At the same time though, when those free radicals manage to break through the cell walls and reach the nucleus where the DNA resides, they can actually lead to very serious damage and mutations which then get copied each time the cell splits and divides via mitosis. This is what eventually can lead to cancer.