Ketosis & Sodium (Correcting Keto Flu)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 28 September 2018
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. they'll be able to help you. |
| 0:13.4 | Call 540991557. |
| 0:17.4 | That's 540299-1557. |
| 0:21.0 | That's 54099-155. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:34.0 | Dr Eric Berg. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi guys, I'm going to share with you some interesting information on the ketosis and sodium. |
| 0:41.0 | Okay? |
| 0:42.0 | Here's what happens. Sometimes when you get the keto flu when you're |
| 0:44.6 | adapting, when you're just starting out, you get a headache, you get fatigue, nausea, dizzy, |
| 0:50.0 | muscle weakness. These are all classic symptoms of a sodium deficiency. Now it could also be potassium as well because the |
| 0:56.7 | electrolytes have similar issues, if they're deficient, but mainly if you have ketia flu, the first thing you should probably try is |
| 1:06.4 | increasing more sodium. Because here's how it works. Very simply, when you lower your carbs and |
| 1:11.7 | sugar, you lower your carbs and sugar you lower your insulin right well when your |
| 1:15.5 | insulin is lower you release sodium so sodium is released through the kidney |
| 1:20.6 | when you consume carbs or sugar you retain sodium. That's why you can |
| 1:25.7 | need a little bit of sugar and gain like five pounds. That's just fluid. But when you |
| 1:30.7 | actually start on this program you're going to dump a lot of fluid because you're releasing sodium and that's why you get these symptoms |
| 1:37.2 | So very simply make sure you consume enough salt I would do it in sea salt, I would not do regular table |
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