Half a teaspoon of sea salt in water can help manage psychological and performance aspects of fasting by offsetting lightheadedness and shakiness.

“And I know a number of people that have incorporated this practice and have written to me and saying, oh, you know, if I just take a little bit of salt in some water, they may or may not include the lemon or lime juice. They immediately feel better and find that it's actually quite straightforward to get out to that, to wait until the feeding window kicks in.”

“But there is one particular thing that one can ingest that can help manage psychologically and performance wise through the fasting portion of the intermittent fasting and get you to your feeding window. And that's salt.”

“Many people find that if they're feeling shaky, they're feeling lightheaded, they can't concentrate, they think they need sugar or food. But what will actually remedy that is some salt. And all it requires really is a small pinch of salt. Ideally, Himalayan or sea salt if you want to get fancy about it. But table salt would be fine.”

“There is one particular thing that one can ingest that can help manage psychologically and performance-wise through the fasting portion of the intermittent fasting and get you to your feeding window. And that's salt. Many people find that the kind of lightadedness, the shakiness that's accustomed with having slightly low blood sugar can be offset by taking a half teaspoon or so of sea salt or even just a tiny pinch of salt and putting into some water and drinking it.”