Can drinking lemon water help you have a boy?

Lemonade is water made from lemons. It is a drink rich in vitamin C and is also a drink that many people like to drink. Some people believe that drinking lemon water for a long time can help give birth to a boy. In fact, this method is not scientific. Whether a boy or a girl is born has no necessary connection with drinking lemon water. Below, we will analyze the reasons in detail for you!

1. Does drinking lemon water help you have a boy?

There is a popular saying among the people that male x sperm is more resistant to acid, while alkaline environment is more conducive to y sperm. Therefore, some people who really want to have a son try their best to create an environment that is "favorable" to Y sperm and increase the chance of fertilization by Y sperm. For example, some women use alkaline solutions (such as soda water) to flush the vagina after the "fertility operation" is completed, thinking that this can reduce the activity of x sperm and thus increase the chance of fertilization by y sperm. Some women, before preparing for pregnancy, drink a lot of alkaline water such as lemonade and soda water, thinking that drinking alkaline water or eating alkaline food can make the body, especially the reproductive tract, become "more alkaline", which is conducive to fertilization by Y sperm.

So do x sperm and y sperm really have different sensitivities to acidic and alkaline environments? As early as the 1970s, scientists studied this issue. Researchers usually use pH value to indicate acidity and alkalinity. When the pH value is equal to 7.0, the solution is neutral, less than 7.0 is acidic, and greater than 7.0 is alkaline. The researchers washed and soaked the two types of sperm in acidic and alkaline solutions with a pH value of 5.2-8.0, but found that there was no significant difference in the motility changes between x sperm and y sperm.

The idea that drinking alkaline water and eating alkaline food can change the body's acidity and alkalinity, resulting in an "alkaline constitution" and increasing the chances of having a boy, has no scientific basis. First of all, under normal physiological conditions, the acidity and alkalinity of various tissues, organs and blood in the human body are relatively stable. There is no such thing as "acidic constitution" and "alkaline constitution" in medicine. Secondly, drinking alkaline water and eating alkaline food can only change the acidity and alkalinity of urine. It will not make the whole body become "alkaline", and the acidity and alkalinity in the female reproductive tract will not change as a result.

2. The secret to having a boy

1. Before preparing for pregnancy, measure your basal body temperature correctly. The day when it suddenly drops is the ovulation day. If you are not sure, you can go to the hospital to check your cervical mucus to help judge.

2. Have sexual intercourse on the day of ovulation or the next day, because the vaginal secretions at this time are alkaline, which is conducive to the survival of Y sperm.

3. Take natural calcium (4 tablets) every day until your doctor confirms that you are pregnant.

4. Within 2 months before conception, condoms should be used for contraception and no other contraceptive methods should be used.

5. Use sexual positions that are conducive to having a boy.

6. The thicker the semen, the better, so you should abstain from sex before preparing to conceive.

3. Benefits of Lemon

1. Lemon can fight scurvy. In the early 20th century, people speculated that scurvy was a vitamin deficiency disease. By the 1930s, people had finally separated uronic acid from the adrenal cortex, cabbage, and lemon juice, figured out its chemical structure, and determined that it was an element of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), so people called it the "mysterious medicinal fruit."

2. Lemon can prevent colds, etc. Lemon is one of the most medicinal fruits in the world. It is rich in vitamin C, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, quinic acid, citric acid, malic acid, hesperidin, naringin, coumarin, high potassium and low sodium, etc., and is very beneficial to the human body. Vitamin C can maintain the formation of various tissues and intercellular matrix in the human body and maintain their normal physiological functions. The matrix, adhesive and gelatinous substances in the human body all need vitamin C to protect. When vitamin C is lacking, the interstitial substance between cells - the jelly - also becomes less. In this way, the cell tissue will become brittle and lose the ability to resist external forces, and the human body will be prone to scurvy; it also has many other uses, such as preventing colds, stimulating hematopoiesis and anti-cancer effects.

3. Citric acid has the effect of preventing and eliminating skin pigmentation. Women who love beauty should eat more of it.