Craving Salt After Eating Sweets? Here’s Why

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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 drink some soda eats 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 so you have hyponatremia which is low sodium  and hypokalemia which is low potassium now the symptom of low sodium would be you crave  salt and you can actually develop a headache or have adrenal stress you can feel more stress and  this is why sometimes when people eat more salt they they feel calm they can actually relax and  their cravings go away their headaches go away at least for a minute but what are the cravings for  low potassium there is none you’re not going to crave a big salad after this event are you usually  not because there’s no cravings when you’re low in potassium even though you should be consuming a  high potassium food like a big salad people don’t the ratio of sodium to potassium should be one to  two you should always have twice as much potassium so here’s a person who eats the carb  then they eat the salt they satisfy this but they don’t satisfy potassium because  when you actually just have more salt without the potassium you create even more of a  deficiency of potassium if you look at the ratios and then all sorts of other things will happen  you may get palpitations you may feel this loud pounding in the ear inner ear like your  heartbeat is like that on the pillow when you’re trying to sleep you’re going to have a hard  time sleeping because potassium is a physiological tranquilizer it relaxes you potassium also gives  you energy so you may feel fatigue you may feel out of breath when you’re going up the stairs  potassium also is involved with preventing leg cramps because it’s an electrolyte and it’s needed  in the muscles for various things so for those of you that are on carbs you don’t want to forget  about this potassium to take that either in a supplement or an electrolyte or just a large  salad but for those of you that are regularly watching my videos you don’t have to worry about  this whole thing because you’re not eating carbs so you’re not going to develop these issues right  here because you’re doing the healthy version of keto but if you’re not on keto and you want  to know how to do this i put a link down below and i’ll explain exactly how to do the healthy  version of keto and in a minute fasting so if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are  and you’re applying this knowledge to your health and you have a success i’d really appreciate you  sharing your success story so click the link down below to my website where you can upload your  success story so you can help inspire others