How much salt should you eat daily on a low-carb diet?

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Do high ketones cause muscle cramps? How much salt should you eat daily on a low-carb diet? And should you not eat red meat if your triglycerides are high? Get the answers in this week’s Q&A with Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt: High ketones and muscle cramps I’ve been following a keto diet for six weeks and I’m doing well. I’ve had a few episodes of muscle cramps in my calf muscles. I checked my ketones with a blood meter and I remembered my ketones were 6.0 with two different episodes of muscle cramping, I didn’t check on the other times I had muscle cramps. Could there be a correlation? Donna   I don’t think it correlates with magnesium per se, but a keto diet can increase losses of electrolytes through the kidneys, so there may be an increased need for sodium, potassium and magnesium. Usually getting enough salt is enough, but sometimes supplementing magnesium is required too, in order to stay keto without that side effect. Read more: Low-carb side effects: Leg...
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