all right low salt will make you tired now this probably i should have
probably put right here low amounts of salt just to make it more of a complete
sentence but you get the meaning there's a symptom called keto fatigue this is so easy to fix
if you understand the mechanism which i'm about to explain all right so here's an average person
before keto they're holding on a lot of stored sugar okay called glycogen for every gram of
glucose that is stored they store three grams of fluid water so when you store glucose you are
holding on to a tremendous amount of water like three times as much you're a fluid-filled sponge
then you start keto right you lose the water and guess what else you're going to lose the salt the
loss of sodium triggers a hormone in your adrenals you start massively increasing this hormone
right here called aldosterone and aldosterone is an adrenal hormone has a purpose of making
sure you don't lose all your sodium because you can't live without sodium within two weeks if
you completely cut out sodium you will die so you need sodium to live so this is a very important
survival hormone to make sure you don't lose all the sodium now here's the problem when you start
increasing aldosterone you at the same time lose the potassium so now we have a situation where we
already lost our sodium now we're going to drop our potassium now just from that alone that can
cause fatigue that can cause muscle cramps next point is that because you just lost the water in
salt you're going to start to become dehydrated so you're going to get thirsty so most people when
they're thirsty they start drinking more water but they may not add salt with it so when you drink
more water without the salt or sodium you start diluting this electrolyte mixture and now we go
from a sodium deficiency to a worsened sodium deficiency okay and the symptoms of low sodium
are weakness which could also be this right here headaches nausea like you're you could even feel
like you have the flu as in keto flu restlessness and even insulin resistance okay which i'm not
going to get into too much in this video but the point is that there's many different problems that
occur when you don't have enough salt here's some other ones loss of potassium is another one here's
some other ones two when you increase aldosterone you increase cortisol and adrenaline that's
right guess what that can create insomnia there are people that start the ketogenic diet that
can't sleep and all they need is some salt okay also this can increase blood pressure there are
also people that do keto and they do all the right things yet their blood pressure is too high
they need a little salt the exact opposite of what they think they're probably going to restrict
salt and they're wondering why it won't work so how much salt one to one and a half teaspoons
per day there's a great interview that i just did on the author from the book the salt
fix i'll put it right here check it out
