Extra Quality Salt Forever?

(Davy) #1

So upon suggestions from books and many here, I upped my salt intake to 3000-4000mg per day, to not get the Keto Flu. Wow. It worked! I only had a small headache one day for a few hours.
So my question, as long as we on Keto, should we always stay on the extra salt? (my suspicions is yes) I take Real Salt btw. And have lost weight like crazy in the first 9 days. No water retention.

(Hyperbole- best thing in the universe!) #2

Excess carbohydrate consumption causes salt retention. So, no. We don’t need extra salt on keto. We need a normal amount of salt. Most people need reduced salt because of their diet.

But the good news is that adding salt to taste with your food will probably be fine once you retrain your taste. The problem is that many of us have grown up in a low salt world. Or, as in processed foods even though you are getting quite a bit of salt for its preservative effect you aren’t tasting it because of all the sugar added to cover the salty flavor. More “culinary” trickery that teaches your body bad habits. In that case once you start cooking at home more often, you just aren’t used to adding so much salt so you accidentally reduce your salt intake once starting keto.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #3

I found early on using extra salt kept me well. Now I just salt food liberally. If I actually get cramps or have a headache salt is the first remedy I try, usually it works.

But I am not getting 10-15 grams of salt like most recommendations for KETO. In fact I did a 96 hour water fast without salt and never felt bad. I know it’s recommended to keep electrolytes up while fasting but frankly I just forgot for the first three days and felt fine so I continued fasting without extra salt. If you know the signs to watch for your body tells you that you need salt just like it does for protein, for which I seem to have days when I want a lot, and days when I’m satisfied on less. Same with fat. If you think about it salt isn’t something we always had a half oz of everyday when we were hunter gatherers. Maybe we consumed more blood or something and got sodium from that but actual salt isn’t available everywhere easily. :cowboy_hat_face:

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #4

I don’t eat salt for the sake of getting a certain amount per day, I just use it on top of my food and this has worked fine for me.

(Davy) #5

Well, I’m upping mine. If it’s good enough for the Japanese. . .

(Scott) #6

I keep a salt grinder in my office and at 10:00am when I used to snack I grind some in my palm and pop it in my mouth. Works like a charm.

#7

I upped my salt intake to 3000-4000mg per day, to not get the Keto Flu.

we are chatting this over in the carnivore thread area.
sodium recommendations are very low actually, info in other thread…thru adaption time, yes salt is needed…but after…seeming like it might be time to cut way back. we are chatting research and more. and this wouldn’t be a blanket statement for all, it would be a personal issue in one’s journey as they go along.

thing is we are discussing this right now. pop over and read up and join in :slight_smile:

(Murphy Kismet) #8

I’m imagining something akin to sniffing white powder off the thumb skin :sweat_smile:

(Susan) #9

I am going to take a small ziplock bag with me to the hospital on Monday with some Pink Himalyan Salt rocks in it to swallow with my water I am bringing. My husband is having surgery and I will be having to wait for hours in the waiting room, and I don’t want to get cramps, so I think it will be wise to have this with me, and take some every once in a while =). I am bringing at lunch to eat at my usual 1pm IF 20:4 TMAD time plan that I do =).

#10

Sending prayers everything is OK for all!!

(Davy) #11

@Fangs Which topic over there??

According to the annual National Health and Nutrition Survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, the average sodium intake in Japan was 10 grams a day in 2014.
The Japanese look at salt very differently from the rest of the world. In western cultures, salt is often associated with high blood pressure, increased heart risk and hypertension. But in Japan salt is considered sacred, and is an integral part of everyday life, while having one of the highest life expectancies in the world. (I’m sure there are other factors involved, like eating a lot of fatty fish)

#12

It is the Another Carnivore Thread.

we start salt talking around post 754…we are researching a bit and thinking it out and bob is going no salt and a lot of good chat on it from everyone.

just something more to read on it all if interested :wink:

(Susan) #13

Thank you, he is having Brain Shunt surgery (he has hydrocephalus and Parkinson’s so hoping the shunt will relieve some pressure and his headaches).