erikahollister's Journal, 12 July 2023

I bumped mine up today, comparing my sodium and potassium intake on eating days I was averaging 1800 and some change on potassium and 1375 on sodium. When I would add electrolytes to my water, I only added like 400 mg sodium and 1179 mg potassium, so today I bumped it up to a full teaspoon of the no salt and a full teaspoon of seasalt, which is the original recipe that I was using. I just have never used that much before, but I also had not lost fluids like I did night before last. so for today my sodium is at 2567 mg and my potassium is at 2894 mg and 400 mg of magnesium. I started having shin cramps after my walk, so I had to be low on something. I now feel much better. 

Interesting, I've just been drinking it on an as-needed basis. I have sodium sensitivity; too much of it makes my blood pressure go up, so I need to watch the sodium. 

And that is the reason I mix my own, If I don't feel like I need the sodium, but I am lacking something, then I can decrease the sodium and up the potassium. My BP goes down when I add potassium it's one of the reasons that they put me on Losartan, but it also made me tired, so when I feel tired, I lower the potassium and increase the sodium, of course I would do it in 1/4 tsp increments. This is the first time I did the full teaspoon of both, but if you have every had muscle cramps in the area of your shins, OUCH!! and no stretching or massaging helped, so I took it to the max on the recipe and it definitely helped one or the other LOL. My daily average I was talking about also include my 84 hours a week fasting, so I get around 4,000 mg of potassium per day when I eat and around 2200 mg of sodium. But when you average it out to one week then the daily average is spread out over the 7 days. So, I'm thinking that if you normally eat x amount of sodium and potassium when you eat, then you should possibly need to replace at least half of that amount when you are fasting to feel normal. My reasoning may be skewed, but when you are feeding, you are hanging onto your fluids in your glucose, when you are fasting, the gluecose gets used up and you release all of that stored fluid, more fluid leaving your body flushes your sodium and potassium out. 

What's the product name you buy for potassium. Thank you for explaining your thinking on this. I take magnesium for leg cramps. 

It's No Salt, the salt substitute, it's potassium chloride 

I took a dose of magnesium too, like I said, I gave it both barrels because it HURT and would not go away! 

Oye, I should have put that as 120 hours per week fasting, I always forget to add the every night fast, I guess that's because it's normal not to eat while you sleep, I just extend it a few hours beyond the 8 hour sleeping period. 

So the actual recipe is 1 tsp of sea salt, or pink salt, whichever you prefer and 1 tsp of NO Salt, and the juice of 1/2 a lemon in 1 liter of water. No more than 2 of these per day.  

Thanks Deb! I'll try it. 

Ketones of 3.7 and BG of 80. Dr. Boz ratio of 21.6. That's some good autophagy, and I think the highest ketone reading I recall. Also I put on some pants that I haven't been able to wear. :-)