Saturday, November 29, 2014

Keto diet micronutrient supplementation

You should take mineral supplements to ward off symptoms of keto flu.

My keto flu entails sluggishness, muscle weakness, headaches, heart palpitations or heart beating rapidly.

To get rid of the headaches and the rapid heart beat, I drink soy sauce straight from the bottle. I also eat salty foods that are zero carbohydrate high fat of course. I hope that's obvious.  Bacon and certain deli meats are good for sodium supplementation. But you want to avoid the meats that have sugar added to them because those will take you out of ketosis.

To get rid of muscle fatigue and sluggishness, I supplement daily with 500 mg pills of magnesium that I picked up from Walgreen.  The effects of this pill are immediate and you should feel energized right away.

I have a problem with digesting dairy products. I know I have lactose (dairy sugar) intolerance and I'm pretty sure that I have a casein (dairy protein) allergy as well.  I know that because whenever I eat dairy products I get an upset stomach and I wind up on the toilet an hour later. So I have to avoid cheeses even the processed kind, milk, and butter only if I don't take a lactose enzyme that helps me to digest the butter.
So I also have a 1200 mg calcium pill daily for bone maintenance.

To supplement potassium intake I eat avocados, guacamole that's made out of avocados, and I sprinkle my food with Lite Salt , a namebrand low sodium salt substitute that has potassium chloride.  A quarter teaspoon has 350 mg of potassium which is ten percent of USA RDA government guidelines.  The potassium intake is not something I obsess over because meat and chicken have a lot of potassium.

I also take a multivitamin. The kind I take have a lot of iron and water soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins.

I don't know how long I'll be able to sustain myself on this diet but I need to shed fat and I feel very low carb intake is the best way to do it.




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