We need 0 grams of sugar inside our digestive system any amount of sugar u put in ur body through the mouth only damages you and doesn't benefit you it only creates problems that ur body will have to deal with later when u eat salts and proteins it starts repairing the damage done by the sugar u put in it sugar is glue it's created by the body in the liver and is used to seal wounds and other blood leaks inside the body eating glue will eventually slow and slow ur digestive system down more and more until it stops entirely and dies it's not rocket science to understand@@esvedra2419
I recently had a mini-stroke and was hospitalized for four days. The hospital would not allow me to eat meat, coffee, or sodium from their menu, but would allow me to eat carbs, sugary treats, juices, and sodas.
Exactly! Would you go to a mechanic who you know is cheating you and who is actively making your vehicle run worse? Of course not! So why go to a doctor who does the same? People live in this kind of induced fear that the only thing keeping them alive is their frequent doctor visits, when in fact most of them would be much better off if they had never seen a doctor. The only exception is for injuries and emergencies - and even there there's some scary incompetence going on. Do you know how common it is for surgeons to give "wrong side" surgery? They do the right surgery, but on the wrong side of the body! It is not rare!
👏 I've found that Seeing no doctors is the healthiest thing I can do for myself. They are drug pushers. They're goal is not to help us get & stay healthy but to do everything they can to get & keep individuals sick. 👿👺🔥👎
I took care of my mother until her death. She was a type 2 diabetic and had bad swelling in her lower legs. Her doctors told me not to let her have any salt, even though she was craving salt all the time. They never said anything about sugar. There was no change in the swelling in her lower legs but she started having headaches and had weakness to the point she could hardly get out of bed. I took her to her doctor, he ordered blood work and told me again not give her any salt in her food even if she begged for it. Her appointment was on Thursday and my mother died that Sunday morning. On Monday morning I received a call from her doctor telling me I needed to bring her in immediately and have her blood work redone because her sodium level was really low and, if it wasn't due to lab error, it could be life threatening. I told him I couldn't do that and he told me again how serious this could be, I told him I couldn't bring her in because she died yesterday morning. There was dead silence on the phone and then he finally said he was sorry for my loss. If I knew then what I know now maybe my mother would still be with us.
I was in liver failure needing a transplant. Wasn't aloud salt. They never said a word about sugar. Even after liver rejection 6 years later not a word about sugar.i was hospitalized for low sodium multiple times 🙄 Have learned so much from the great Dr. Here! Lost my mom in 2010. My deepest sympathy ❤
In nursing school, we were taught water always follows salt. Never, EVER, were we taught every sugar molecule has 5 water molecules attached to it! After 30 years, I'm learning SO much from you Dr. Cywes! I am trying to enlighten my fellow nurses to your amazing videos and what you're teaching. 90% of them think I'm crazy! Those are the overweight ones drinking diet coke and complaining of being "hangry" at work all the time🤦🏼♀️ Thank you for all you do!!
My BP dropped from an average of 125/80 (and occasionally 140/90) to 110/68 on this year's physical (I'm 56) after going LCHF on 3/1/22. The "establishment" will tell a person to drop salt to control BP then prescribe a diuretic when that doesn't work. It's almost like it's a conspiracy or something. It gives me hope that you're trying to get real information! Not always easy.
I don’t bother trying to convince a doctor of anything. I just do my own thing and employ my doctor as a gateway to the medical industrial complex. Insurance companies make that a requirement.
I've decided to do the same thing. The insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid require we see a doctor once a year for wellness check ✅ aka physical in order to keep coverage.
I fear for the vast human population that eats corporate "food". The deck is truly stacked against them. The marketing power they are up against is staggering. When I go to places like costco and watch the carts roll out with enormous quantities of poison, it hurts my heart and head.
As a frequent Costco shopper, I must agree with you. There however, if one really looks carefully, can find excellent quality low/no carb/sugar, low "corporate" junk ingredients. There are so many times that I wish I could point to other shoppers and tell them to put "that back on the shelf". It is sad to see overweight and obviously unhealthy people putting filth into their bodies. Your fear is not unfounded and is a national security issue as the military is having a difficult time recruiting for many reasons but one of the main issues is obesity and other metabolic health issues that deem a lot of people unfit for military service.
About the only thing I buy at Costco is big hunks of aged Gouda. I'd buy meat, but it is way over-priced. Used to buy the rotisserie chicken, but that is off the menu now that I've learned that grain fed chicken's flesh is full of linoleic acid.
This morning my ketones are at 5.4 Glucose was 73mg/dl Blood pressure was 90/63 I'm 76 years old & med-free. I've been fasting since last Saturday afternoon. Almost five days. One more day to go then two days of beef broth and steak. Then I plan on repeating this next week.
I've been low carb almost 4 years. I salt the heck out of my daily meal and even put salt in my coffee, to replace all of the salt that had been in the processed foods I'd been eating before I went low carb. 1) don't fear salt 2) eat REAL food, never any FAKE man-made food
Started doing this myself. Can’t wait to hear what my doctor says to this as well as telling him I’m going off statins. I appreciate that they need to adhere to a “standard of care”, but not waiting another 20 years for medical associations to catch up.
Just yesterday a friend of mine passionately insisted that because he has congestive heart failure, salt is dangerous for him. His cardiologist has fed him this line. He is T2 diabetic, with multiple insulin shots per day. My sister in law was apoplectic last year insisting an increase in salt put her in the hospital (she also has CHF) and this information came from her cardiologist. I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to view what the medical industry (particularly cardiologists and nutritionists) disseminates about salt to be malpractice. Unfortunately, if a layman like myself attempts to counter this with facts, the response is incredulity and anger. So sad. But I keep trying. Thanks for the video Doc.
You bring up a great point, Julie. It really is a shame that so many medical and nutritional "experts" get so defensive and downright angry when challenged about biochemistry or human physiology. It is as if they cannot admit they could actually be WRONG! This makes for a very DYSFUNCTIONAL medical system.
@@JMK-vo8pv So true. My cardiologist literally walked out of the room when I asked detailed questions about HDL/TG ratio and other stuff. Told me to find a Chinese doctor or maybe VooDoo. Said not to call him if I die. He was a good plumber, installing 6 stents in me, based only on a stress test. I was totally asymptomatic.
My blood pressure agrees 100%. When I was diagnosed with high BP, there was no talk about what I was putting in my face. Just gave me a prescription and handed me the DASH Diet paperwork and sent me on my way. Let’s fast forward to the good part … I cut the sugar, added the salt, BP thanked me. My mother-in-law experienced the same thing and is now off her BP meds and no longer T2. I can tell if I consumed too many carbs the day before simply by how easily my wedding ring set slips on and off my finger the next day. Cannot even begin to tell you how much I appreciate you and others who produce content for us! PS - My new doc is impressed with the transformation.
people are also heavily lacking potassium to make the sodium/potassium pumps work properly. Mountain goats will risk their lives to lick a salty rock and people think its bad.
That's why I consume lots of veggies containing potassium. I also like to season some of my foods with both potassium salt (KCl) and regular salt (NaCl).
I salt all my food to taste, even my coffee gets a couple sprinkles from the jar of pink salt on my counter. At 64 and carnivore, my blood pressure has never been better. About 5 years ago I watched a 3-part series on salt from UA-camr "what I've learned". I've been increasing my salt intake and seeing improvements in my health ever since.
I know my doctor, for her own insurance reasons, can only follow the common medical practices as defined by the CDC, the FDA and whatever medical association that she has to belong to for her credentials. To deviate from those institutionally PRESCRIBED medical parameters is to increase the risk of a malpractice lawsuit. So, from patient's condition to diagnosis to prescribed medical advice (diet, drugs, surgery, rehabilitation, or other medical action) that flow chart for medical help is not for my benefit, but to protect the doctor from a lawsuit, based on the use of "best practices." Therefore, even if my doctor happens to know that a Keto diet would resolve most of my issues, her medical advice (to avoid a lawsuit) is to put me on an array of drugs or other "prescribed" therapies. The whole medical community is being held hostage by big Pharma, the medical community, and the big money that influences medicine, law, and politics. In my opinion its not doctors lying as much as it is the financial pressure on the doctors to protect themselves from legal action. Deviating from "best practices" is a financial risk.
I have struggled with late night snacking before bed (usually need a spoon of peanut butter) and hunger just from 40 years of habit. Have started putting a little salt pebble or 2 under my tongue .....sometimes over an hour I might do 10. But it works!!! I have not post dinner snacked since starting this...Which has increased my true fasting times 2 to 3 hours a day by changing nothing. 🙂...hitting my 18 hours of fasting. 14 clean ( water black coffee + salt rocks) 4 dirty (milk coffee + electrolytes)....and 6 hour eating window. (keto only)...feeling incredible xx
I am so happy to have found you. I cannot wait until my appointment because for the first time in 25 years, I feel like I am going to see a doctor who can educate me rather than the other way around!
We have an institutional problem consisting of professors who give the wrong information and students who do not question anything. I am absolutely sure that all this RDA, sugar and food chemicals have rooted in our system on a purpose. It makes no sense whatsoever that knowing all this basic information for over a century resulted only in an increase of disease, instead of a reduction. Thank you for sharing honest thoughts. Great insights as always.
I can remember many years ago, more than 20, my GP said to me regarding blood pressure, as I was leaving his office, that they used to think it was salt but they are now realising that it is sugar. I wish he had said this whilst I was still in the office so I could have asked more questions. But I am glad that I did find out about low carb when I was diagnosed with diabetes in October 2021 because I have managed to put it into remission with only diet. I did return to see this doctor recently and gave him permission to say "I told you so".
I have learned more from you than all my years in the nursing profession. I have had a wt problem my whole life. Many nurses r overweight and we are supposed to be setting a healthy example for our patients. Thank you so much for your teaching
My mom had a heart condition (heart attack, then bypass, then stents). So she was a patient of different cardiologists for years. And not even once doctors (including her family doctor) asked her about her diet. Her last cardiologist only told her to "eat less". She had an apple shaped body (overweight, but not obese), but ironically that cardiologist had the same body shape. :- \ So, many doctors don't know or maybe don't even want to know how food affects the human body. It does sound very strange, but that's the reality.
OMG!!! Thats why my blood pressure is high even on carnivore diet! My ketogenic doctor Crevier prescribed me BP meds! And sugested me to lower beef and salt intake😮.
"No cardiologist knows this," is a bit too strong of a statement. Some cardiologists know it. All three of them have UA-cam channels. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Keep the great content coming Dr. Cywes!
@@blackbandit1290, you're correct...there are at least half a dozen now...lol. All joking aside, it is definitely good to see the information getting out there, at least for folks who can sift through the MISinformation that's still running rampant as well!
My cardiologist told me to eat more salt. I live at 6600 feet above sea level in a dry climate. I was having episodes of heart palpitations. He said he sees it a lot due to dehydration. Drinking water isn’t enough. We need the electrolytes to hang onto the water. His advice worked.
Most medical practitioners in my rural area of the US just repeat the same old mistaken notions I've heard all of my life. It is both disheartening and infuriating. The betrayal I feel when a doctor asks things such as "Do you eat a healthy low fat diet"? And then tries to educate me about why I should be on a statin. I honestly only go so I can get a prescription for my thyroid medication.
I did not know that every glucose molecule absorbed 6 molecules of water. Thank you for this video. One cannot take all the public service announcements at face value anymore!
Wow...fascinating. Have been on a keto protocol for years but didn't take my too low salt uptake into focus and it all ended up with me feeling like crap almost collapsing with too low blood pressure. This video highly motivated me to start all over again with keto for a second try, but this time i really want to do it the right way. You all wish me luck!
I carry a bottle of what i call ketorade, around with me and sip on it through out the day. It has 20 oz of water, 1/2 tsp of table salt, 1/2 tsp of potassium salt, and 2 tbl spoons of lemon juice.
Oooh boy love the new production! Looks great! Doc you continue to factually prove that the general medical community doesn’t know the most basic information to keep people healthy
Just from self experimentation, I can honestly say that salt cravings are very commonly mistaken for sugar cravings, even after about 6 months carnivore. Has anyone else experienced this?
Dr Ken Berry has a salt rock that he licks whenever he gets a craving. I've actually started really enjoying the salty taste of things. I even add a bit of salt to my coffee now.
Hi Doc. Totally agree with your message but I wanted to point out a discrepancy between sodium and salt in your calculations. Of course you made a disclaimer about the math 🙂. Salt is approximately 40% Sodium and 60% Chloride by weight. The USA RDA of sodium (not salt) is 2300mg which corresponds to nearly 6 grams of salt, so you are very close to the RDA. Mainstream healthcare recommends (pre) hypertensive patients to drop it to 1500mg. But if you look at the studies, it only drops the systolic and diastolic by a few points. I achieved a much larger drop (normal BP now) by going low carb (not even keto)! In fact I had to slightly increase my salt intake to avoid momentary dizziness when standing up. I'm now enjoying salt guilt-free (of course not going overboard with the amount). The irony is that salt shakers have almost completely disappeared from food establishments in the US, but you'll find several packets of sugar at the table.
Loved this video! I checked my spice cabinet and lo and behold I had a container of Morton's Lite Salt tucked way in the back! It claims to have 50% less sodium than regular salt...but if you read the ingredients, it also contains a bunch of other crap INCLUDING DEXTROSE!! I have experienced many occasions where I have tried to comment on my doctor's advice to be met with annoyance on their part. Dr. Ken Berry suggests that you should challenge your doctor with real knowledge and if they argue you should find yourself another doctor. The problem here is that there are not that many around anymore!! The good ones are so overbooked that you cannot get an appointment for 6 months or longer. The not so good ones, dare you to argue or find yourself another. If you live in a large city, you may be lucky to find another. But if you live in a smaller community, the choices are extremely limited. What is society supposed to do? I need to get off my soapbox now before I get thrown off!
Another aspect is that the salt a lot of the food industry uses isn't the "good salt" and acts differently in the body. Also, if you check the labels, brands like Morton's, Great Value, etc. are adding dextrose and a couple other things to the "salt".
I have an uncle who had a heart attack last year and the doctor told him to avoid salt and get on a Statin so he did but he smokes two packs a day and drinks a bottle of rum🤷♀️
Insulin acts upon the kidney to retain water, sodium, and other electrolytes (and uric scid). Most people have hyperinsulemia. I suspect people have issues with sodium because of chronic high insulin.
I am a witness to complete and ubiquitous malpractice in hospital recovery wards. The amount of sugar they prescribe these patients is an outrage. All while restricting salt. So much sugar they treat them as diabetics while they "recover." Those that recover do so in spite of these protocols. What can we do about the shit they shovel on to the plates and through the feeding tubes?
My mom recently had surgery (Toronto). She is Type 2. Most of the meals were high carb or high sugar … white bread, margarine, apple sauce, jello, pudding.
@@mtlreiner We've got to have some sort of patients' rights for food choices. I just hear a kidney doctor say to me, "salt is not good for anyone." OMG! (Optimizing Malpractice Guidelines)??
@@taddoerrvandervoortjr.2943 I don’t even think they had salt as a condiment. We need salt to live. We have about 45g coursing around in our system. Yet we only have about 5g of sugar in our system. But yes, let’s make sugar ok but salt not ok.
Most people that you tell that to will either ignore you and/or just don't care how much sugar and carbs to eat, and that's just the wrong attitude to have towards having better and good health overall. Food addiction is a serious problem with so many of us, which is truly sad.
Dr Robert Lustig was on about salt saying it' self regulating, you can only consume so much salt in a session. There's no limitation of sugar, you can consume way more sugar above salt.
Hi Dr. Cywes, thank you so much for your wisdom. I have been researching about my diabetes for over ten years and what you present is bang on! Just realizing the fact that I’m a carb addict has helped me tremendously. I have been on this roller coaster for over ten years. I am booked in with you for August, unfortunately I have to wait but in the mean time I will stick to the diet. I love what your doing and truly believe this needs to be educated to the allopathic world so they can start helping the diabetics of the world instead of making them worse. God bless!
As a lover of salt I did appreciate all your information. We are so bombarded with 'how salt is so bad for you' it is hard to not feel guilty about my use. Then, today, I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal that someone of your stature needs to respond to: "IT'S TOO BAD SALT TASTES SO GOOD" WSJ 22 Jun 2023
"The human body is designed to regulate salt not sugar". This sums up this video . I would love to see a video where a cardiologist explains why you should restrict salt. I doubt that most would agree that sugar is okay . I so enjoy your videos .
Yeah. The blood likes to hold 4g of glucose, but many people consume 100-200g of carbs each meal. On the other hand, the blood holds 45g of salt, so I have a hard time understanding why consuming 9g instead the recommended max or 6g of salt can make such a big difference in BP.
Salt is so important, it helps regulate our electrolyte levels and so many people are leaving out the good mineral salt that our bodies need, instead most Americans on a standard Western diet are consuming sodium from all the processed and packaged foods.
I'm not at all surprised that folks are willing to change anything but the real problem, addiction to sugar. We are not addicted to salt!. Feb 21st is my four year anniversary of IF and no sugar. The turning point for me was hearing you talk about sugar as an addiction. Without that piece I never would have gotten to the right headspace to make this stick.
I think I will start a podcast called NO SHEEPLE ALLOWED where all the truth seekers have one place to go for truly life changing solidly resourced content on health, wellness and lifestyle. Dr. Rob would be a regular guest
Thank you so much for this! Our medical system is so behind the times they think they are leading. We need more intelligent and honest doctors like you. God bless you.
I am participating in a hypertension study and they still recommend a low salt diet in addition to my cardiologist consult who wants to get me back on a statin.
I swear you’re one of the few doctors out there that actually thinks. What you just did is not rocket science. It just makes me mad. This is absolutely why I swell up like Michelin Man when I eat carbs. I can’t wait for my appointment this summer.
Now I am very low carb. Feeling much better. I use more salt. Bloodpressure went down very fast. Healthcare try say no salt. Lot of viruses here hit hard, other people are sick, not me.
My Blood Pressure is up around 200/120 and my doctor keeps saying salt is bad, but I don't think I ate salt much at all. The BP is just uncontrollable. I'm glad to hear he's lying or just an idiot, but I don't think he'll appreciate me calling him either.
Ive been eating carnivore for a number of months to try it out. I've been able to get a handle on a number of health issues as a result. It has fixed my IBS and joint pain (inflammatory ailments). I eat A LOT of salt. My blood pressure is typically around 105/70 HR60. On a very carb restricted diet, salt doesn't seem to effect my blood pressure in any noticeable way.
Make Sure that you are getting enough Magnesium and Potassium too , it's very important when eating CARNIVORE I'm 11 months in and down 125 pounds 335/210 66yo and 6'2"
Thank you so much for this. I'm going to go and rerun it to fully understand it. This is so important, and the numbers came at us pretty fast. I wonder if a couple of graphics would help our comprehension a bit. Thank you again for the insight.
Hi Doc, great video! I started on Trulicity last Friday after our phone appt. It's a miracle. My blood sugars are getting back to normal! I'm feeling so much better. No side affects either. Thank you so much for all you do! Have a blessed day 🙏
I just took Trulicity this morning for the first time based on your recommendation, Dr Cywes. So far glucose still about 135 all day with eating little to no carbs. We are hopeful. Sure are encouraged by all these success stories.
Then why is it that whenever I have salt, even just a little to taste on food (I’m zero carb/carnivore) I get: unrelenting thirst, fluid retention especially in my lower legs, swollen eyes and puffy face, abdominal bloat, tendency to over-eat and/or crave sweet (which I think is to take away the “saltiness” feeling in my mouth - but I will not actually eat the sweet) and even disrupted sleep??? I do understand the science, but it may not be for everyone. I have done “salt experiments” off and on over the years and I always do better without it, or very little. And yes, it’s good quality salt. My BP has ALWAYS been low/low-normal, even when I was pregnant with my children. Oh, and coffee/tea (caffeine) works the same odd way for me - it’s a diuretic but actually makes me retain fluid in my lower legs too! Maybe I’m the oddball. Also, humans evolved well without adding any extra salt on their woolly mammoths 😜
I personally never believed salt is bad and told any doc that recommends that path, it was not going to happen, change docs. It is simple to "fire" a doc and find a better one.
You can live without sugar, you cannot live without salt.
100% TRUE👍
Truth
We need certain amount of sugar, let's not go overboard.
life started in salty water not sugary water.
We need 0 grams of sugar inside our digestive system any amount of sugar u put in ur body through the mouth only damages you and doesn't benefit you it only creates problems that ur body will have to deal with later when u eat salts and proteins it starts repairing the damage done by the sugar u put in it sugar is glue it's created by the body in the liver and is used to seal wounds and other blood leaks inside the body eating glue will eventually slow and slow ur digestive system down more and more until it stops entirely and dies it's not rocket science to understand@@esvedra2419
I recently had a mini-stroke and was hospitalized for four days. The hospital would not allow me to eat meat, coffee, or sodium from their menu, but would allow me to eat carbs, sugary treats, juices, and sodas.
Terrible
That is so sad
Daft buggers!
They are amazing, aren’t they? Just wonder if they do these things on purpose or just lack real knowledge.
No one recommends anything to me because I see no doctors...ever. Maybe that's why I'm healthy, energetic, and med-free at 66.
Fabulous, wish everyone could do the same except for emergency services!
Exactly! Would you go to a mechanic who you know is cheating you and who is actively making your vehicle run worse? Of course not! So why go to a doctor who does the same?
People live in this kind of induced fear that the only thing keeping them alive is their frequent doctor visits, when in fact most of them would be much better off if they had never seen a doctor.
The only exception is for injuries and emergencies - and even there there's some scary incompetence going on. Do you know how common it is for surgeons to give "wrong side" surgery? They do the right surgery, but on the wrong side of the body! It is not rare!
👏 I've found that Seeing no doctors is the healthiest thing I can do for myself. They are drug pushers. They're goal is not to help us get & stay healthy but to do everything they can to get & keep individuals sick. 👿👺🔥👎
I took care of my mother until her death. She was a type 2 diabetic and had bad swelling in her lower legs. Her doctors told me not to let her have any salt, even though she was craving salt all the time. They never said anything about sugar. There was no change in the swelling in her lower legs but she started having headaches and had weakness to the point she could hardly get out of bed. I took her to her doctor, he ordered blood work and told me again not give her any salt in her food even if she begged for it. Her appointment was on Thursday and my mother died that Sunday morning. On Monday morning I received a call from her doctor telling me I needed to bring her in immediately and have her blood work redone because her sodium level was really low and, if it wasn't due to lab error, it could be life threatening. I told him I couldn't do that and he told me again how serious this could be, I told him I couldn't bring her in because she died yesterday morning. There was dead silence on the phone and then he finally said he was sorry for my loss. If I knew then what I know now maybe my mother would still be with us.
I'm so sorry for your loss. That was clearly malpractice.
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. 🌷
Did you sue? Because I think you could. And that might be the only way doctors learn.
My condolences for your loss.
I was in liver failure needing a transplant. Wasn't aloud salt. They never said a word about sugar.
Even after liver rejection 6 years later not a word about sugar.i was hospitalized for low sodium multiple times 🙄
Have learned so much from the great Dr. Here!
Lost my mom in 2010.
My deepest sympathy ❤
In nursing school, we were taught water always follows salt. Never, EVER, were we taught every sugar molecule has 5 water molecules attached to it! After 30 years, I'm learning SO much from you Dr. Cywes! I am trying to enlighten my fellow nurses to your amazing videos and what you're teaching. 90% of them think I'm crazy! Those are the overweight ones drinking diet coke and complaining of being "hangry" at work all the time🤦🏼♀️
Thank you for all you do!!
Thank you Brenda Henry
My BP dropped from an average of 125/80 (and occasionally 140/90) to 110/68 on this year's physical (I'm 56) after going LCHF on 3/1/22. The "establishment" will tell a person to drop salt to control BP then prescribe a diuretic when that doesn't work. It's almost like it's a conspiracy or something. It gives me hope that you're trying to get real information! Not always easy.
I don't know which school you went to. I learned this during my basic PT cert and again in 1st year of uni of health science degree.
I'm surprised that Dr. Cywes doesn't have more than a million subscribers! He's the best.
I don’t bother trying to convince a doctor of anything. I just do my own thing and employ my doctor as a gateway to the medical industrial complex. Insurance companies make that a requirement.
I've decided to do the same thing. The insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid require we see a doctor once a year for wellness check ✅ aka physical in order to keep coverage.
I fear for the vast human population that eats corporate "food". The deck is truly stacked against them. The marketing power they are up against is staggering. When I go to places like costco and watch the carts roll out with enormous quantities of poison, it hurts my heart and head.
As a frequent Costco shopper, I must agree with you. There however, if one really looks carefully, can find excellent quality low/no carb/sugar, low "corporate" junk ingredients. There are so many times that I wish I could point to other shoppers and tell them to put "that back on the shelf". It is sad to see overweight and obviously unhealthy people putting filth into their bodies. Your fear is not unfounded and is a national security issue as the military is having a difficult time recruiting for many reasons but one of the main issues is obesity and other metabolic health issues that deem a lot of people unfit for military service.
About the only thing I buy at Costco is big hunks of aged Gouda. I'd buy meat, but it is way over-priced. Used to buy the rotisserie chicken, but that is off the menu now that I've learned that grain fed chicken's flesh is full of linoleic acid.
Yes, for sure!
Absolutely- if they would only listen
wow "corporate food" is precisely what it is .
This morning my ketones are at 5.4
Glucose was 73mg/dl
Blood pressure was 90/63
I'm 76 years old & med-free.
I've been fasting since last Saturday afternoon. Almost five days. One more day to go then two days of beef broth and steak.
Then I plan on repeating this next week.
Poopage will happen when u breakfast🙂 but great results
What are you hoping to achieve with the fasting
Planning my first 3-day fast for this coming weekend. So nice to see the anecdotal comments piling up!
@@jw-vx8im Autophagy and stem cell regeneration for starters.
Fasting damages thyroid good luck
I've been low carb almost 4 years. I salt the heck out of my daily meal and even put salt in my coffee, to replace all of the salt that had been in the processed foods I'd been eating before I went low carb.
1) don't fear salt 2) eat REAL food, never any FAKE man-made food
I figured out how to get salt into the body: squeeze a lemon put it into water nd add salt. Tastes good, actually.
I salt my black coffee too!! delicious!
Started doing this myself. Can’t wait to hear what my doctor says to this as well as telling him I’m going off statins. I appreciate that they need to adhere to a “standard of care”, but not waiting another 20 years for medical associations to catch up.
In the hospital they serve diet coke,,,,cookies,,,,milk,,,,brownies,,,,,margarine,,,bread,,,,,muffins.....that is a crime
That depends on the patient's diet that the dieticians have been given.
Not everyone can be given those.
Are talking about visitors??
Just yesterday a friend of mine passionately insisted that because he has congestive heart failure, salt is dangerous for him. His cardiologist has fed him this line. He is T2 diabetic, with multiple insulin shots per day. My sister in law was apoplectic last year insisting an increase in salt put her in the hospital (she also has CHF) and this information came from her cardiologist. I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to view what the medical industry (particularly cardiologists and nutritionists) disseminates about salt to be malpractice. Unfortunately, if a layman like myself attempts to counter this with facts, the response is incredulity and anger. So sad. But I keep trying. Thanks for the video Doc.
let your blood tests and bp talk for you.
You bring up a great point, Julie. It really is a shame that so many medical and nutritional "experts" get so defensive and downright angry when challenged about biochemistry or human physiology. It is as if they cannot admit they could actually be WRONG! This makes for a very DYSFUNCTIONAL medical system.
@@JMK-vo8pv So true. My cardiologist literally walked out of the room when I asked detailed questions about HDL/TG ratio and other stuff. Told me to find a Chinese doctor or maybe VooDoo. Said not to call him if I die. He was a good plumber, installing 6 stents in me, based only on a stress test. I was totally asymptomatic.
Dr. Westman reports that his prescription strength keto diet reversed CHF in at least 3 of his patients. See The Salt Fix by James DiNicolantonio
This is frustrating and leaves us very much out in the cold.
My blood pressure agrees 100%.
When I was diagnosed with high BP, there was no talk about what I was putting in my face. Just gave me a prescription and handed me the DASH Diet paperwork and sent me on my way.
Let’s fast forward to the good part … I cut the sugar, added the salt, BP thanked me. My mother-in-law experienced the same thing and is now off her BP meds and no longer T2.
I can tell if I consumed too many carbs the day before simply by how easily my wedding ring set slips on and off my finger the next day.
Cannot even begin to tell you how much I appreciate you and others who produce content for us!
PS - My new doc is impressed with the transformation.
people are also heavily lacking potassium to make the sodium/potassium pumps work properly. Mountain goats will risk their lives to lick a salty rock and people think its bad.
That's why I consume lots of veggies containing potassium. I also like to season some of my foods with both potassium salt (KCl) and regular salt (NaCl).
Finally, another physician like myself stating salt is great and sugar is bad. you and Ken Berry keep speaking.
We had a farm and gave our cattle salt blocks to keep them healthy so why would humans be told to cut back
In northern Michigan we gave iodized salt to our cattle. Lack iodine in midwestern soil.
I salt all my food to taste, even my coffee gets a couple sprinkles from the jar of pink salt on my counter. At 64 and carnivore, my blood pressure has never been better. About 5 years ago I watched a 3-part series on salt from UA-camr "what I've learned". I've been increasing my salt intake and seeing improvements in my health ever since.
I add salt to my coffee too!
What I've Learned is a great channel!
Me too! Coffee tastes so good with just a little bit of salt and a teaspoon of heavy whipping cream.
@@bikeman7982 ☕️ Time for a cup 😘
When the uninformed come at me with their protective little anger bubble of what they were 'told' I refer them to this video!
I know my doctor, for her own insurance reasons, can only follow the common medical practices as defined by the CDC, the FDA and whatever medical association that she has to belong to for her credentials. To deviate from those institutionally PRESCRIBED medical parameters is to increase the risk of a malpractice lawsuit. So, from patient's condition to diagnosis to prescribed medical advice (diet, drugs, surgery, rehabilitation, or other medical action) that flow chart for medical help is not for my benefit, but to protect the doctor from a lawsuit, based on the use of "best practices."
Therefore, even if my doctor happens to know that a Keto diet would resolve most of my issues, her medical advice (to avoid a lawsuit) is to put me on an array of drugs or other "prescribed" therapies. The whole medical community is being held hostage by big Pharma, the medical community, and the big money that influences medicine, law, and politics.
In my opinion its not doctors lying as much as it is the financial pressure on the doctors to protect themselves from legal action. Deviating from "best practices" is a financial risk.
Excellent point.
Hear, hear, hear!!!
I have struggled with late night snacking before bed (usually need a spoon of peanut butter) and hunger just from 40 years of habit.
Have started putting a little salt pebble or 2 under my tongue .....sometimes over an hour I might do 10. But it works!!! I have not post dinner snacked since starting this...Which has increased my true fasting times 2 to 3 hours a day by changing nothing. 🙂...hitting my 18 hours of fasting. 14 clean ( water black coffee + salt rocks) 4 dirty (milk coffee + electrolytes)....and 6 hour eating window. (keto only)...feeling incredible xx
I am so happy to have found you. I cannot wait until my appointment because for the first time in 25 years, I feel like I am going to see a doctor who can educate me rather than the other way around!
We have an institutional problem consisting of professors who give the wrong information and students who do not question anything. I am absolutely sure that all this RDA, sugar and food chemicals have rooted in our system on a purpose. It makes no sense whatsoever that knowing all this basic information for over a century resulted only in an increase of disease, instead of a reduction. Thank you for sharing honest thoughts. Great insights as always.
I can remember many years ago, more than 20, my GP said to me regarding blood pressure, as I was leaving his office, that they used to think it was salt but they are now realising that it is sugar. I wish he had said this whilst I was still in the office so I could have asked more questions. But I am glad that I did find out about low carb when I was diagnosed with diabetes in October 2021 because I have managed to put it into remission with only diet. I did return to see this doctor recently and gave him permission to say "I told you so".
You have to consume the right salt with any minerals in it. Keltic salt, Redmond salt, Pink salt.
I have learned more from you than all my years in the nursing profession. I have had a wt problem my whole life. Many nurses r overweight and we are supposed to be setting a healthy example for our patients. Thank you so much for your teaching
My mom had a heart condition (heart attack, then bypass, then stents).
So she was a patient of different cardiologists for years.
And not even once doctors (including her family doctor) asked her about her diet.
Her last cardiologist only told her to "eat less". She had an apple shaped body (overweight, but not obese), but ironically that cardiologist had the same body shape. :- \
So, many doctors don't know or maybe don't even want to know how food affects the human body. It does sound very strange, but that's the reality.
OMG!!! Thats why my blood pressure is high even on carnivore diet! My ketogenic doctor Crevier prescribed me BP meds! And sugested me to lower beef and salt intake😮.
"No cardiologist knows this," is a bit too strong of a statement. Some cardiologists know it. All three of them have UA-cam channels. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Keep the great content coming Dr. Cywes!
Yes, it's wrong to make a blanket statement. Isn't it fantastic that the information is now freely available on the internet?
Yep, they're all the ones that I subscribe to! There are more than 3 though, and they're all excellent.
Well said
@@blackbandit1290, you're correct...there are at least half a dozen now...lol. All joking aside, it is definitely good to see the information getting out there, at least for folks who can sift through the MISinformation that's still running rampant as well!
Please tell us Exactly Who THEY are
My cardiologist told me to eat more salt. I live at 6600 feet above sea level in a dry climate. I was having episodes of heart palpitations. He said he sees it a lot due to dehydration. Drinking water isn’t enough. We need the electrolytes to hang onto the water. His advice worked.
Most medical practitioners in my rural area of the US just repeat the same old mistaken notions I've heard all of my life. It is both disheartening and infuriating. The betrayal I feel when a doctor asks things such as "Do you eat a healthy low fat diet"? And then tries to educate me about why I should be on a statin. I honestly only go so I can get a prescription for my thyroid medication.
I've been there & done that with statins. They all are DISABLING, DESTRUCTIVE & DEADLY. THE RISKS OUT WEIGH THE BENEFITS.
I will never again take any STATINS. THE RISKS OUT WEIGH THE BENEFITS 👿👺🔥👎
Two of my friends died after successful heart surgery, following two different heart doctors insisting on low salt.
I did not know that every glucose molecule absorbed 6 molecules of water. Thank you for this video. One cannot take all the public service announcements at face value anymore!
Wow...fascinating. Have been on a keto protocol for years but didn't take my too low salt uptake into focus and it all ended up with me feeling like crap almost collapsing with too low blood pressure. This video highly motivated me to start all over again with keto for a second try, but this time i really want to do it the right way. You all wish me luck!
I drink boullion in the morning when my bp is too low
I carry a bottle of what i call ketorade, around with me and sip on it through out the day. It has 20 oz of water, 1/2 tsp of table salt, 1/2 tsp of potassium salt, and 2 tbl spoons of lemon juice.
Oooh boy love the new production! Looks great!
Doc you continue to factually prove that the general medical community doesn’t know the most basic information to keep people healthy
This channel is my sanity.
Just from self experimentation, I can honestly say that salt cravings are very commonly mistaken for sugar cravings, even after about 6 months carnivore. Has anyone else experienced this?
Yeah. When i crave fruit, i lick my salt rock andddddd it’s goneeeee.
yes... once i started getting enough salt the craving that i thought were for sugar went away
Yes, me too. I like a pinch of salt on a teaspoon diped on bacon fat. Craving gone.
Dr Ken Berry has a salt rock that he licks whenever he gets a craving. I've actually started really enjoying the salty taste of things. I even add a bit of salt to my coffee now.
@@jobrown8146 i copied him.
Hi Doc. Totally agree with your message but I wanted to point out a discrepancy between sodium and salt in your calculations. Of course you made a disclaimer about the math 🙂. Salt is approximately 40% Sodium and 60% Chloride by weight. The USA RDA of sodium (not salt) is 2300mg which corresponds to nearly 6 grams of salt, so you are very close to the RDA.
Mainstream healthcare recommends (pre) hypertensive patients to drop it to 1500mg. But if you look at the studies, it only drops the systolic and diastolic by a few points. I achieved a much larger drop (normal BP now) by going low carb (not even keto)! In fact I had to slightly increase my salt intake to avoid momentary dizziness when standing up. I'm now enjoying salt guilt-free (of course not going overboard with the amount).
The irony is that salt shakers have almost completely disappeared from food establishments in the US, but you'll find several packets of sugar at the table.
Loved this video! I checked my spice cabinet and lo and behold I had a container of Morton's Lite Salt tucked way in the back! It claims to have 50% less sodium than regular salt...but if you read the ingredients, it also contains a bunch of other crap INCLUDING DEXTROSE!! I have experienced many occasions where I have tried to comment on my doctor's advice to be met with annoyance on their part. Dr. Ken Berry suggests that you should challenge your doctor with real knowledge and if they argue you should find yourself another doctor. The problem here is that there are not that many around anymore!! The good ones are so overbooked that you cannot get an appointment for 6 months or longer. The not so good ones, dare you to argue or find yourself another. If you live in a large city, you may be lucky to find another. But if you live in a smaller community, the choices are extremely limited. What is society supposed to do? I need to get off my soapbox now before I get thrown off!
Finding good health without all the hand holding is the answer. I know, easier said than done!
Another aspect is that the salt a lot of the food industry uses isn't the "good salt" and acts differently in the body. Also, if you check the labels, brands like Morton's, Great Value, etc. are adding dextrose and a couple other things to the "salt".
I have an uncle who had a heart attack last year and the doctor told him to avoid salt and get on a Statin so he did but he smokes two packs a day and drinks a bottle of rum🤷♀️
We've come to find out about conventional medicine that a patient cured is a client lost.
I still don't understand how any of this explains my high blood pressure, when I eat no carbs and do eat salt to taste - even in my decaf coffee...
My blood pressure stays the same no matter what. 143/93. My blood pressure medicine has no effect.
Insulin acts upon the kidney to retain water, sodium, and other electrolytes (and uric scid). Most people have hyperinsulemia. I suspect people have issues with sodium because of chronic high insulin.
Salt is important as it carries all the minerals needed in the human body, sugar is just a poison.
Agreed!
More scorched earth from carb addiction doc. Love it.
I am a witness to complete and ubiquitous malpractice in hospital recovery wards. The amount of sugar they prescribe these patients is an outrage. All while restricting salt. So much sugar they treat them as diabetics while they "recover." Those that recover do so in spite of these protocols. What can we do about the shit they shovel on to the plates and through the feeding tubes?
My mom recently had surgery (Toronto). She is Type 2. Most of the meals were high carb or high sugar … white bread, margarine, apple sauce, jello, pudding.
@@mtlreiner We've got to have some sort of patients' rights for food choices. I just hear a kidney doctor say to me, "salt is not good for anyone." OMG! (Optimizing Malpractice Guidelines)??
@@taddoerrvandervoortjr.2943 I don’t even think they had salt as a condiment. We need salt to live. We have about 45g coursing around in our system. Yet we only have about 5g of sugar in our system. But yes, let’s make sugar ok but salt not ok.
Most people that you tell that to will either ignore you and/or just don't care how much sugar and carbs to eat, and that's just the wrong attitude to have towards having better and good health overall. Food addiction is a serious problem with so many of us, which is truly sad.
Dr Robert Lustig was on about salt saying it' self regulating, you can only consume so much salt in a session. There's no limitation of sugar, you can consume way more sugar above salt.
Hi Dr. Cywes, thank you so much for your wisdom. I have been researching about my diabetes for over ten years and what you present is bang on! Just realizing the fact that I’m a carb addict has helped me tremendously. I have been on this roller coaster for over ten years. I am booked in with you for August, unfortunately I have to wait but in the mean time I will stick to the diet. I love what your doing and truly believe this needs to be educated to the allopathic world so they can start helping the diabetics of the world instead of making them worse. God bless!
Never ever heard this before, been on 3 bp meds for years, mind blown!
I remember back in the early 90s my boss bragging that, "I haven't had salt since 1977!" I didn't know what to say...
As a lover of salt I did appreciate all your information. We are so bombarded with 'how salt is so bad for you' it is hard to not feel guilty about my use. Then, today, I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal that someone of your stature needs to respond to: "IT'S TOO BAD SALT TASTES SO GOOD" WSJ 22 Jun 2023
So basically, when we eat a lot of sugar drinking water is a bad idea? Is that really so? Watching This video just changed my life!
"The human body is designed to regulate salt not sugar". This sums up this video . I would love to see a video where a cardiologist explains why you should restrict salt. I doubt that most would agree that sugar is okay . I so enjoy your videos .
Yeah. The blood likes to hold 4g of glucose, but many people consume 100-200g of carbs each meal. On the other hand, the blood holds 45g of salt, so I have a hard time understanding why consuming 9g instead the recommended max or 6g of salt can make such a big difference in BP.
Salt is so important, it helps regulate our electrolyte levels and so many people are leaving out the good mineral salt that our bodies need, instead most Americans on a standard Western diet are consuming sodium from all the processed and packaged foods.
❗️The blood pressure info was scary ... 😨
Wow, I was held hypnotized! What a great presentation! Thank you Dr Cywes!
Fantastic video, Rob. Thanks!!
Glad to hear you talk about this, people just don't get it.
I'm not at all surprised that folks are willing to change anything but the real problem, addiction to sugar. We are not addicted to salt!. Feb 21st is my four year anniversary of IF and no sugar. The turning point for me was hearing you talk about sugar as an addiction. Without that piece I never would have gotten to the right headspace to make this stick.
what is IF ?
@@scottwwsi Intermittent Fasting, or basically not eating very often, one or twice a day, sometimes less.
@@Lance54689 oh ok
I think I will start a podcast called NO SHEEPLE ALLOWED where all the truth seekers have one place to go for truly life changing solidly resourced content on health, wellness and lifestyle. Dr. Rob would be a regular guest
Tx
I love it!
Thank you so much for this! Our medical system is so behind the times they think they are leading. We need more intelligent and honest doctors like you. God bless you.
Thank you Dr Cywes for doing the math and sharing this information 😊
Great content as always. Besides: Cudos to lighting and white balance! Nice colored video.
I totally believe and support your information!!
You are a true blessing for us Doctor 🌷
Wonderful explaination. Thank you very very much! Stay hungry my friend!s
Thank you for your posts, I learn more from you that is actually helpful than the 4 yrs of college biology.
I am participating in a hypertension study and they still recommend a low salt diet in addition to my cardiologist consult who wants to get me back on a statin.
Thank you so much for explaining and clarifying the subject of good salt! Finally truth we all understand and can share with others! 🙌🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
I swear you’re one of the few doctors out there that actually thinks. What you just did is not rocket science. It just makes me mad. This is absolutely why I swell up like Michelin Man when I eat carbs. I can’t wait for my appointment this summer.
I swell up as well from sugar and carbs
Dr. Please talk about Chronic kidney disease and keto diet
Will do
Thank you so much for explaining this so well! I was talking to someone about this the other day, I will share this video with them. Thank you, again.
Now I am very low carb. Feeling much better. I use more salt. Bloodpressure went down very fast. Healthcare try say no salt. Lot of viruses here hit hard, other people are sick, not me.
Thank you for another excellent video. THANK you for being a warrior!
thanks Doc. I keep going back to this one!
My Blood Pressure is up around 200/120 and my doctor keeps saying salt is bad, but I don't think I ate salt much at all. The BP is just uncontrollable. I'm glad to hear he's lying or just an idiot, but I don't think he'll appreciate me calling him either.
I would really enjoy listening to you Dr Robert Cywes and Dr Robert Lustig talk PHD stuff.
Same here at 65. When I went in for my Medicare physical I was not believed I had no medication list
This is such a great video Dr. Cywes! Very informative and eye opening.
Well explained... well done! Alan.
i eat close to 15-20 grams of salt per day. very low carb diet high fat moderate protein. blood pressure has never been lower.
Ive been eating carnivore for a number of months to try it out. I've been able to get a handle on a number of health issues as a result. It has fixed my IBS and joint pain (inflammatory ailments). I eat A LOT of salt. My blood pressure is typically around 105/70 HR60. On a very carb restricted diet, salt doesn't seem to effect my blood pressure in any noticeable way.
Make Sure that you are getting enough Magnesium and Potassium too , it's very important when eating CARNIVORE
I'm 11 months in and down 125 pounds 335/210 66yo and 6'2"
Thank you so much for this. I'm going to go and rerun it to fully understand it. This is so important, and the numbers came at us pretty fast. I wonder if a couple of graphics would help our comprehension a bit. Thank you again for the insight.
Numbers confused me too🙂
YOUR My new Hero! Awesome info that even I could understand...
Wow great video I understand now.
Eye opener!!!!👏
Great video!👏🏾👏🏾
I appreciate your passion and transparency!
Hi Doc, great video! I started on Trulicity last Friday after our phone appt. It's a miracle. My blood sugars are getting back to normal! I'm feeling so much better. No side affects either. Thank you so much for all you do! Have a blessed day 🙏
I just took Trulicity this morning for the first time based on your recommendation, Dr Cywes. So far glucose still about 135 all day with eating little to no carbs. We are hopeful. Sure are encouraged by all these success stories.
That's insane. How have been told this lie for so long?
Very good presentation of what is overlooked by Folks
In healthcare system, we are customers!!! 💰💰💰💰
My mom's doctor said that. I'm doing and sharing in honor of her
Then why is it that whenever I have salt, even just a little to taste on food (I’m zero carb/carnivore) I get: unrelenting thirst, fluid retention especially in my lower legs, swollen eyes and puffy face, abdominal bloat, tendency to over-eat and/or crave sweet (which I think is to take away the “saltiness” feeling in my mouth - but I will not actually eat the sweet) and even disrupted sleep??? I do understand the science, but it may not be for everyone. I have done “salt experiments” off and on over the years and I always do better without it, or very little. And yes, it’s good quality salt. My BP has ALWAYS been low/low-normal, even when I was pregnant with my children. Oh, and coffee/tea (caffeine) works the same odd way for me - it’s a diuretic but actually makes me retain fluid in my lower legs too! Maybe I’m the oddball. Also, humans evolved well without adding any extra salt on their woolly mammoths 😜
I'm seeing the RDA for sugar per day is 36 g for men and 24 g for women. Where are you getting 200 plus grams for the RDA?
Now what about someone with kidney disease? They're telling me to cut the salt completely. How dangerous is it really?
That needs bloodwork to evaluate
Thank you very much Dr. The most important message I’ve ever received. Cheers Mike
Doc could you please send me the web site for 2:22 the University of Toronto to purchase the black platinum earrings
Thank you We need more of you
Very informative video. Thank you for sharing. God blessed 🙏.
I personally never believed salt is bad and told any doc that recommends that path, it was not going to happen, change docs. It is simple to "fire" a doc and find a better one.