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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!
This worked exactly as written, thanks!