Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Now, if you've been watching my channel, this video is probably not for you, but it's

for your friends and family that eat carbohydrates because we know you are on the ketogenic diet.

So if you have friends and family that are not on the ketogenic diet, you can show them

this video.

But the question is, why do people crave salt after they eat sweet or even after they eat

some carbohydrate?

We're going to talk about why that is.

So let's say, for example, your friend, not you, eat some cake, drinks the soda, it's

candy cookies, a donut, ice cream.

And then later that day or night, start craving some salt.

They need some chips, right?

They need something salty.

Why is that?

Because when you start getting high blood glucose, there's too much sugar in the blood.

Sodium starts leaking out of your cells because of what glucose does to the cell.

It's very osmotic, which I don't want to get into the details on the mechanism, but

just realize that when you have high glucose in your blood, you tend to lose sodium in

certain places in the body.

And you also become deficient in potassium.

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