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I had started doing it six years ago, and I was scared to share it with my followers

because I thought they would just say, oh, you're just saying this to push a supplement.

So I never did.

I haven't even talked about this until years after I've published on this topic.

Being on a high animal protein diet can actually break down bone.

In nature, there's an electrolyte that naturally occurs in meat and in the fluids, in blood.

It's called bicarbonate.

Once the animal dies, if you consume fresh meat, you're getting a decent amount of bicarbonate.

After six hours, it's almost completely gone because postmortem, the lactic acid starts

building up due to the lack of blood flow.

So the hydrogen ions will increase and it'll deplete the bicarbonate. So you're literally consuming a more acidic meat if you're consuming meat six hours after upon death. Nature put bicarbonate

in there on purpose. When you acidify the interstitial fluid, all receptors interface the

interstitial fluid. Receptors only function within a very narrow range of a pH. So you can potentially

mess up the functioning of hormones if you are

constantly acidifying the interstitial fluid. There have been studies proving that if you induce

acidosis in someone, it will lead to insulin resistance. I care so much about my academic career

and I publish in this space. And I hate when layman people try to say I'm wrong about acid-based

balance because they've never published on it.

When it comes to salt, what are the myths you see, even to this day, people continue to perpetuate?

I think the biggest one is that we kind of think of salt as like a toxic poison versus an essential mineral.

I think that gets lost in translation. So like

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