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Comment by buu700

As someone who eats strictly keto (low-carb/high-fat), I actually have to make a concerted effort to get enough salt in my diet due to my naturally retaining less water than non-keto people.

This includes making somewhat high-salt food choices wherever reasonable — bacon, pickles, salted butter, cooking with salt in general, etc. — as well as actually adding a salt/electrolyte solution to the water I drink throughout each day. Not only is my blood pressure fine, my most recent blood test sodium levels are actually on the low end of normal (so I've been trying to bump up my salt intake even a bit higher).

Not sure if this says anything interesting about salt, except maybe that carbohydrates could be the real problem that got salt unfairly blamed.

parent buu700 10 years ago

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