How Much Salt on Keto Diet? – Dr. Berg

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hi guys in this video I’m gonna talk about the importance of salt and a ketogenic diet and how to get more salt in your diet when you’re on a keto plan ok now I know you probably heard that salt is really bad it’s gonna increase your blood pressure not actually true if you’re doing the ketogenic plan that I’m recommending you’re consuming a tremendous amount of vegetables with a lot of potassium or you’re supplementing with electrolyte has more potassium so when you do that a lot of times you’re going to be deficient in sodium okay because here’s the thing if you’re in a high carb diet you’re gonna have higher amounts of insulin and you’re gonna have more water attention and more sodium retention when you’re in a low carb low insulin you’re gonna release the excess water and you’re gonna release more sodium okay so the symptoms of low sodium would be constipation heart palpitations headache fatigue weakness even cramps in the leg okay so those are some things that you can happen as you transition to a keto plan as well and you have to remember to consume more salt in fact the amount of salt that you need to consume on a keto plan is about a teaspoon a day if you’re on a high carb diet you should only consume about 1/4 of a teaspoon per day because you’re gonna retain it ok so here’s some good ideas to increase more salt a Himalayan salt put it on your vegetables put it on your food put it on your eggs this is the best it’s pure it has 74 minerals don’t use table salt you similarly in a pink salt salty cheese feta cheese olives salted butter salted nuts hummus pickled vegetables those are just a quick list of some things that I do but you could there’s many more but the point is that you need to increase more sodium on this plan alright thanks for watching and put your comments below hey you probably already subscribed but if you haven’t press this little button down below and I will keep you updated