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so I want to show you a real simple test

to see if you’re dehydrated or not what

determines the volume of your fluid in

your body your extracellular fluid

volume is this one electrolyte

sodium now there’s a lot of different

minerals involved but sodium is the

driving force to maintain this fluid so

if you have too much sodium in the body

you’re gonna have a demon that’s

swelling and you see this in

cardiovascular disease and then is a

condition called ascites this is where

your gut is just fluid filled it’s like

a basketball usually the person is thin

and they get this huge protruding belly

that’s fluid and what’s happening is the

liver is filled with scar tissue

cirrhosis it’s damaged and it’s leaking

fluid into a sac around your abdomen and

you’re gonna see edema when you have

kidney disease or diabetes but when

you’re low in sodium you’re gonna get

dehydrated you can have low blood

pressure low nutrients because there’s

not enough pressure to drive the

nutrients through the body and you can

also have low oxygen because you’re not

getting the circulation to the different

parts of the body so there’s a very

simple test where you’re just basically

pinching the skin and you’re looking at

how fast it comes back okay to normal

you’re measuring a decrease in skin

trigger which means just the fluid and

pressure right underneath your skin so

you just pinch the skin for a couple

seconds and it should come right back

okay so if it’s not coming right back

let’s say 1 to 2 seconds so the longer

it takes to come back the more

dehydrated you are so if you pinch this

for a few seconds and it’s staying there

for a few seconds you are severely

dehydrated so I have a lot of videos in

the ketogenic diet and if you don’t know

what that is I’m gonna put a link down

below for more information but when you

do a ketogenic diet the need for salt

goes up because before when you’re doing

a higher carbohydrate diet you’re

retaining sodium okay but now on keto

you’re losing more sodium so you have to

consume more salt about a teaspoon a day

but let’s say for example you had

diarrhea or vomiting or you’re on

diuretics that could be another reason

why you’re low in sodium now as a side

now that doesn’t have to do with this

test another interesting point on sodium

is a condition called hyponatremia where

you you have a low sodium because you’re

drinking excessive amounts of water now

remember it’s the sodium that determines

the volume of fluid outside the cell

it’s the driving force that maintains

this fluid so if you’re drinking massive

amounts of water of course without the

sodium because you’re not drinking

seawater you’re gonna do loot the sodium

so in this situation you’re gonna be low

in sodium you’re gonna have a whole

series of other problems like heart

problems even actually swelling in the

brain but that’s actually a side note so

let’s say for example you’re doing a lot

of salt and you’re not drinking enough

fluid well you could be dehydrated from

that because you also need to increase

the fluid with the salt and it’s a

combination of both of those so the most

common thing that I see when you start a

ketogenic plan is that you’re not doing

enough salt but always use sea salt by

the way and in addition to that maybe

you’re not doing enough water as well so

the combination is important now there’s

one last point I want to bring up that

has to do with your adrenal glands if

you have a severe adrenal problem okay

where the adrenal glands are basically

shut down and the condition is called

Addison’s

you no longer can retain sodium so

you’re going to be losing sodium in

which case you’re going to be very

dehydrated and people with Addison’s

need to consume a lot of salt because

this goes right through them alright

guys so go ahead and do this test right

now in comment below on the results

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