Insufficient sodium intake during fasting, ketosis, or carnivore diets can increase cortisol levels, potentially leading to insulin resistance. — Whalespan
Insufficient sodium intake during fasting, ketosis, or carnivore diets can increase cortisol levels, potentially leading to insulin resistance.
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“if we don't get enough sodium in fasting ketogenic or carnivore diets what happens we push our cortisol up and this can happen when you're not fasting as well if you look at people diabetics people with heart failure who severely severely restrict salt they get insulin resistance so you can make yourself insulin resistant by not eating enough sodium”
“and people who are super bad in the heart failure often get their sodium levels limited by their physician and they get insulin resistant and the reason they get insulin resistant is because the cortisol goes through the roof right the cortisol goes through the roof”