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Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

Hi guys, today we're going to talk about dry mouth on keto. Now, there is a

certain medical condition that has to do with your salivary glands, not producing enough saliva. Okay,

and that can come from an autoimmune condition, or let's see you're in chemo. I'm not going to get

into that condition. What I'm going to talk about is why you would have

dry mouth on keto. Now, one of the fluids has a high amount of an enzyme called amylase. This is an

enzyme that breaks down starches. And the average amount of saliva that an adult produces per day

is between 0.5 and 1.5 liters. That's two to six cups of saliva every single day.

So now let's talk about why you would potentially have dry mouth when you do keto.

The first thing is that you're not consuming starches anymore. You're not doing breads or

potato. You're not doing sugar anymore.

Hopefully. Okay. So the need for that enzyme goes way down. So the need to produce that fluid also

goes down. Okay. That's one reason. The other reason has to do with your electrolytes. Okay.

So when you do keto, the need for certain minerals goes up, especially

potassium and magnesium. And because someone is cutting their carbs down, a lot of times they reduce

vegetable carbohydrates as well. So potentially they're not going to get the minerals that they

need from other foods. So just so you know, you would have to consume between 7, 10 cups of salad per day to get

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