How to Rid a Butt Cramp on Keto

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about what’s behind a glute cramp on keto.

Let’s say you have:

• A cramp or muscle spasm in your butt

• You’ve been diagnosed with deep gluteal spasm

• You’ve been diagnosed with piriformis syndrome

It all goes back to an electrolyte deficiency. Primarily, it is a sodium deficiency. What this really means is that you aren’t consuming enough sea salt.

When you start keto or intermittent fasting, you lose a lot of water. With the water loss, you also lose sodium.

You need to increase the amount of sodium you’re getting. If you’ve tried potassium, magnesium, and calcium for cramps and it hasn’t worked—you need to try adding more sea salt.

I would recommend 1-2 teaspoons of sea salt per day. If you’re exercising you may need 2 teaspoons.

To get more sodium, you can:

• Add more sea salt to your food

• Add sea salt to your water with lemon

• Take sea salt capsules

**Himalayan sea salt is the best to have.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I'm going to talk about what's really behind a glute or glute-yel spasm when you're on
0:50.4	keto. Let's say for example you have a cramp or muscle spasm in your butt,
0:55.1	or you've been diagnosed with deep gluteal spasm,
0:58.8	or you've been diagnosed with this thing called Piriformis syndrome,
1:01.4	which is a muscle underneath the glutes.
1:03.5	Realize this is an electrolyte deficiency. Primarily, it's going to be sodium, sodium deficiency.
1:10.0	It just means that you're not consuming enough sea salt.
1:13.3	This happens all the time when you start a keto plan
1:16.8	or you're doing it a minute fasting,
1:19.0	you lose a lot of water.
1:20.3	And with the water loss loss you lose sodium.
1:23.0	So you need to increase the amount of sodium.
1:25.0	In fact, if you've tried potassium, magnesium, or calcium for cramps and it still hasn't worked, try more sea salt.
1:35.0	And I would recommend, depending on if you exercise or not,
1:39.0	one to two teaspoons a day.
1:41.0	If you're exercising, you may need two teaspoons. Now the problem with
1:44.8	salt cravings is that you're not necessarily going to crave salt itself.
1:48.0	You're going to crave what your body remembers as salt in the form of popcorn, chips, pretzels, that type of thing.
1:57.4	So there's a couple things you can do.
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