Insufficient sodium intake can lead to increased insulin resistance, elevated aldosterone and cortisol levels, and potassium wasting.

“if we don't have enough sodium we become more insulin resistant and so I think a lot of people who are having this effect on ketogenic diets or carnivore diets will do well to increase their sodium we also know that we don't get enough sodium we're gonna increase aldosterone which is a mineralocorticoid and that's gonna cause potassium wasting”

“if we limit sodium too much we're gonna get insulin resistant we don't want that right”

“the studies that I've seen are quite fascinating on the low end in these salt studies when they restrict sodium down to very low levels like 500 milligrams of sodium per day they see they see insulin resistance develop right so there's a great paper on this called low salt diet and insulin resistance”