 Salt is one of those things where we can look at groups of people that had low salt consumption, as well as high salt consumption. If we look at our indigenous ancestors, tribes of people that subsisted mostly off of wild animal and plant foods, they only consumed 0.05 to 2 grams of salt per day, much less than we consume now. It's safe to say they would have had to obtain salt from either blood or shellfish, possibly even seaweed, but there's no real examples of salt-seeking behavior in diets that contain large amounts of animal flesh, whereas if we look at herbivores, ruminant animals, we see a lot of salt-seeking behavior in regards to salt licks and certain clays that contain higher amounts of salt that animals tried to eat. Inuit eskimos, for example, which consume most of their calories from animal foods over 90%, actually detests salt. Same thing with carnivores in nature, they don't really seek salt and almost any indigenous group that consumed mostly animal foods didn't seem to need salt because they were obtaining decent amounts of sodium from the meat they were consuming. When the Neolithic Revolution came, when agriculture started, when humans started incorporating more plants into their diet, we started exhibiting this salt-seeking behavior that we saw in ruminant animals. The first cases of this were around 8,000 years ago, various methods from the most popular being they would take these clay pots and fires seemed to be involved with creating these salt cakes. There were also some structures, particularly in France, made from wood around salt pools used to extract salt. So with agriculture, with higher plants in the diet, we did start seeking salt and using salt in our food. About a thousand years ago, we used to consume 5 grams of salt per day. In 19th century England, they used to consume 18 grams of salt. And in 16th century Sweden, 100 grams of salt from cured fish, which seems completely crazy. So very, very drastic differences in salt consumption and it's safe to say humans can tolerate various degrees of that to what extent this applies to the carnivore diet. I would say, well, it's not necessary. I mean there might be certain modern constituents such as culture, maybe people are used to high salt intakes, but if we look at the sodium potassium pump, which is how the body regulates sodium and potassium, there don't seem to be too many issues with the amount of salt that most people consume, but high levels of sodium can definitely deplete potassium, which in turn can deplete magnesium. And magnesium is very important for things like vitamin D3 absorption. So there's definitely some tie-ins there, but overall health is not something people generally seek out on a carnivore diet. They just want to eat meat and get an easy way out, so I won't go further into that. But the main point I wanted to touch on in this video was the reason people are putting clumps of salt on their food is because their salt is not salty. And here I have a couple of different salts. Here I have a Mediterranean sea salt, just your classic sea salt, fairly fine grained. Here I have a Celtic salt. It's a slightly finer salt. Celtic salt is made in a different way than the refined salt. It's usually not like the top layer of salt that they harvest, and this Celtic salt is much saltier. In regards, you could put a smaller amount on your food, and it tastes way saltier. This is because of the mineral content of the salt, and also because of how it was produced, how fresh it is. It was produced at a raw temperature. This salt, fleur de sel de grande, is the most famous salt in the world. It's finishing salt, it's large flakes. This salt explodes in your mouth. So if we're talking about reducing salt consumption, I see people put practically handfuls of salt on their steak, and if you just take a few flakes of this salt, it's way saltier than any table salt you've ever used in your life. So for those of you guys who are saying, oh, I need to eat five to ten grams of salt coming from keto, there's a lot of fasting mindset people that they need to supplement lots of salt, I consume a relatively low amount of salt. Just a few grains on my food, and I also water fast for pretty long periods of time without any sort of electrolyte supplementation, and I found that my water intake, I was raw primal for a little while, and I didn't salt my food at all. And then I went back to cooked food with a little bit of salt, I didn't really notice the difference in hydration patterns. I did notice a difference in hydration patterns when I consumed very high amounts of salt. It's like prosciutto cured meats, so and that would be to the point where I literally have to drink cups and cups and cups of water to feel hydrated. And this is something that I can kind of relate to low stomach acidity as well. So I don't really want to go too much into that or too further into that. And I also took Accutane, which is an acne drug that impairs your liver function, and I've always been thirsty since I took that offer. For the most part, I just want to give you guys like a brief history on salt, give you guys just a little bit of information out there so you can kind of gauge what you should be doing. I think this ties into the idea that natural foods are the solution to almost everything. If you're consuming things in a natural way, in a high quality way, then you're going to consume amounts of them that you should be consuming. If you guys want to go on my Amazon shop, this is one of my favorite salts. There's also the light gray Celtic salt. I think there's like a fisherman on the label. That's pretty good. There's many versions of these on my Amazon shop as well if you guys want to get this. It's pretty good. You can just get your regular Mediterranean sea salt in bulk, but I do find that the amount of salt I've seen some people put on their foods is completely insane. You ever watch like a New York City steakhouse restaurant cooking their steak? They literally throw a handful of salt on the steak, but that's because their salt is not high quality and it doesn't actually taste that salty. Himalayan pink salt, just very clever marketing. If we're going to talk about mineral ratios of salts, all those salts that are very high quality are good. Himalayan salt has a pretty good mineral profile. I think Celtic salt is a little better. Redmond's real salt I think is similar, but if you're consuming any of those high quality salts, you're fine. It's not like one salt is better than the other, but if we're going to compare that to table salt or refined Mediterranean salt, that's where you can say certain salts are better than other salts. I did touch briefly on the cured and preserved and how it causes me to be very thirsty, but salt is necessary to make certain foods. There's a lot of dairy products that require salt. Salt is used as a preservative in many ways, so I don't necessarily think salt is bad to consume, especially in the amounts that it is used for the most part. But there are some foods that are very, very salty. And if a food is salty to the point where you don't like it, then it's probably a pretty good indicator that you shouldn't be eating it, at least in large amounts. I think most people, especially on keto, zero-carb carnivore, would benefit from reducing the salt that they are consuming. I think it's really unintentional, as I said, with the type of salt that I'm assuming most people are using. If we're going to touch on ratios in meat, meat has 1,400 milligrams of potassium per pound, 250 milligrams of sodium, which is the equivalent 500 milligrams of salt. And the manganese, even the other minerals, aren't too important in this video, but consuming 2 to 3 pounds of meat a day, it gets you a decent amount of salt and sodium in the diet. So definitely not a concern with not salting your food. And I find that it's also a good way to reduce palatability and lose weight. But there's many other ways to do that, too, from cooking your food lighter to an order of satiation, which I'll go over in about maybe a week or two from now. But I think I've covered everything I've wanted to in this video. As I said, if you guys would like to purchase some high-quality salts, if you want to help me out, I mean, you don't have to. I don't really make a lot of money from Amazon, but if you guys are going to go and buy salts, you might as well buy them from my Amazon shop, right? 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