From personal experience, I ate mostly ketovore for a couple of months, and some days during an easy short hike, I was feeling acute chest pain. It happened a couple of times, and it was scary because the kind of pain. Sometimes I had chest pain but it was due to gas and bloating, but this time was different. I was eating only himalayan salt with my meals. After that, I started supplementing with potassium bicarbonate and the pain has disappeared completely when exercising. I think anticlotting properties of potassium are vital. I tried potassium chloride before but it gave me muscle pain and could not tolerate too much. On the other side, I have had 2 tsp per day on potassium bicarbonate with no issues at all.

I'm about to listen to his and I really hoping this talk mentions consuming blood. I've done it for months at a time when I can get my hands on it and it's amazing. I typically have a couple tablespoons on my meals and it totally replaces my supplementary salt intake. I never get light headed. There's more. It's all just right.

The Bear also ate cheese often, thus unless he was able to buy no salt cheese, well, you get my point. Same can be said about his opinion for calcium and other minerals on carnivore ( the minerals normally found in cheese ).

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19:20 ... my experience just the other day... I experimented just having a half stick of butter for breakfast & lunch... maintained my usual lemon water with a pinch of salt... but by evening I had the jitters / anxiety (Keto flu) symptoms I always get when I lose salt. I have never, in 7 years, been able to reduce my need for a ton of salt on keto / carnivore. My heart goes goofy and I feel like I'm about to die. Salt (best in the form of chicken broth) fixes it right away... within minutes. It's weird. I suppose, as these studies suggest... if I toughed it out, my body would adjust to low salt. But, unless I see some downside to salting everything heavily (salt is delicious, btw), I won't be doing that. ;)

"Ancestral Health", ...for those who can't live in the 'here and now' and read science......