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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