How Much Salt on Keto Diet? – Dr. Berg Answers
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
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Dr. Berg talks about getting more salt in your ketogenic plan. Always use sea salt. If you are on a high carb diet, you will retain sodium. When you are on a low carb diet, you will need more salt.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi guys, in this video I'm going to talk about the importance of salt in a ketogenic diet |
| 0:26.5 | and how to get more salt in your diet when you're on a keto plan. |
| 0:30.5 | Now I know you probably heard that salt is really bad, it's going to increase your blood pressure, |
| 0:35.6 | not actually true. |
| 0:36.6 | If you're doing the ketogenic plan that I'm recommending, you're consuming a tremendous |
| 0:40.6 | amount of vegetables with a lot of potassium or you're supplementing with electrolyte |
| 0:45.3 | has more potassium. |
| 0:47.0 | So when you do that, a lot of times you're going to be deficient in sodium because here's |
| 0:52.0 | the thing. |
| 0:53.0 | You're going to have carb diet, you're going to have higher amounts of insulin and you're |
| 0:56.4 | going to have more water retention and more sodium retention. |
| 1:00.6 | When you're on a low carb, low insulin, you're going to release the excess water and you're |
| 1:04.9 | going to release more sodium, okay? |
| 1:08.6 | So the symptoms of low sodium would be constipation, heart palpitations, headache, fatigue, |
| 1:18.0 | weakness, even cramps in the leg, okay? |
| 1:21.1 | So those are some things that you can happen as you transition to a keto plan as well and |
| 1:25.9 | you have to remember to consume more salt. |
| 1:27.4 | In fact, the amount of salt that you need to consume on a keto plan is about a teaspoon |
| 1:32.4 | a day. |
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