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Starting the day with balance is essential, especially when your stress levels feel off the charts. My go-to morning tonic for stress is packed with soothing ingredients to help reset your system. 🧘♀️✨ Made with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, and honey, it’s a yummy way to jumpstart your day. For more healthy drinks, you may want to try this happy tummy tea and sleepy girl mocktail.
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Morning Tonic Recipe
If you have any of the symptoms below, it could be because of your cortisol levels:
- Exhausted (but you wake up in the middle of the night)
- Hair loss
- Stubborn belly fat
- Constipated
- Constantly bloated
- Stinky sweat
My cortisol-lowering morning tonic 🍵 can help! Its ingredients have been found to decrease stress levels. Plus, it tastes like a fall in a cup—it’s so good! I feel like our nervous systems need all the help they can get before the holiday craziness and heavy food season. Yes? Yes.
🍵 Morning Tonic Ingredients
- 🚰 Warm water helps the ingredients dissolve better than cold water.
- 🍋 Lemon Juice provides vitamin C.
- 🍎 Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother: Also called ACV. I used Madhava organic apple cider vinegar.
- 🫚 Ginger, cinnamon, and turmeric have all been found to reduce cortisol levels.
- 🍯 Raw Honey sweetens the drink and balances the tartness. Local honey is best if you have it.
👩🍳 How to Make Morning Tonic
Combine all the ingredients in a mug and whisk. I like to use my mini frother wand, which does a fantastic job of quickly mixing it.
🎥 Watch me make my homemade morning tonic for stress.
BTW, I have some of my favorite mugs linked here! 🍵
🗒 Variations
- Optional Ingredients: I love the flavor of a pinch of fennel in my drink; plus, it helps with bloating. Black pepper is also good.
- Ashwagandha is also optional but has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety. It’s an evergreen shrub grown in Asia, Africa, and Europe. I buy mine from Mountain Rose Herbs.
🗒 Substitutions
- 🍋 Citrus: Replace lemon with orange juice.
- 🫚 Ginger: Grate fresh ginger into your mug instead of using dried.
- 🍯 Sweetener: Swap honey with maple syrup.
👝 How to Store
I usually make this morning tonic right before consuming it. However, you could double or triple the recipe and refrigerate it in an airtight container for a couple of days. You could drink it cold or warm it on the stove or in the microwave.
🤔 Common Questions
🍎 Apple cider vinegar with mother is unfiltered vinegar, which is cloudier than regular ACV. The mother (AKA the cloudy stuff floating in the vinegar) is the “yeast and bacteria [left over] from the fermentation process.” Raw ACV has better flavor and natural probiotics than filtered vinegar.
Morning Tonic for Stress
Ingredients
- 6 ounces warm water
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar with the mother
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon is best
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon raw honey, local if possible
- Optional: a pinch of fennel or black pepper
- Optional: ashwagandha
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients together and enjoy this tonic in the morning before your coffee!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This worked exactly as written, thanks!