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

Now, I had some reports from people who feel very weak when they drink too much water,

especially when they're doing fasting, and I want to talk about why that is.

It's basically a deficiency of sodium.

A person is going to feel very weak if they don't consume enough salt, and I recommend sea salt.

So there's all sorts of things that can make you deficient with sodium.

Number one, not consuming enough sea salt, and of course, when you're fasting,

you're usually not consuming anything except water.

And the more water you drink, the more you dilute the minerals, including salt and sodium.

So the combination of drinking more water when you're fasting is a bad combination.

You always want to consume sea salt if you're fasting.

Our bodies need minimum, three and a half to four to five grams of sodium.

That's roughly between a teaspoon and a half to two teaspoons of sea salt every single day.

Also, if you're doing low carb, you're going to require more salt than if you're doing higher amounts of carbohydrate.

That's simply because when you're in a high carb diet, you're going to retain more salt than when you're in a low carb diet.

Now, the other thing that can create a sodium deficiency is consuming large amounts of potassium.

So if you're doing electrolyte with a lot of potassium and you're not doing enough sea salt, that can throw you off too.

Especially if you're doing all these other things like fasting, so don't forget about the sea salt.

Now, the more stress you go through, the more salt you're going to need.

Because when you're pumping a lot of cortisol, you lose sodium.

Salt is needed as a part of the stress response.

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