Who Would Have Thought That Salt Effects Insulin Sensitivity?

Are you eating enough salt to stay insulin-sensitive?

Dietary salt is too often viewed as something to avoid, but could eating too little salt actually make your metabolic problems worse?

Dr. Ben Bikman and the Insulin IQ team discuss what you need to know.

Resources referenced in this video presentation can be found at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9589654/

Watch the full livestream at https://www.insuliniq.com/

In this video, Dr. Berg talks about salt and insulin resistance. We need sodium as a requirement just as we need potassium. However, people are told to avoid salt.

People who are salt-sensitive are really potassium deficient.

You need minimum 4700mg of potassium and 2300mg of sodium daily!

It is true that most people get too much sodium, but that's not from taking too much sea salt, it is from eating processed foods. When you have insulin resistance, you retain sodium but you also rid of potassium. So once you clean up your diet, you will improve insulin resistance and absorb more minerals.