The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you're on a ketogenic diet, which is something I'm not a huge fan of long-term, you may need far more salt than this because when you're on a ketogenic diet, your insulin can actually drop too low and you will not hold on to electrolytes.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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When I was on a carnivore diet, which was a long-term ketogenic diet, I had lots of muscle cramps because my body was not holding on to salt and other electrolytes because my insulin signaling was actually too low at the level of my kidneys.