I have taken up the habit of intermittent fasting motivated by Dr. Jason Fung’s lectures and seeing the effects on my body for when I did a trial run for 30 days. I think I am doing it for more than 6 months now.
However, now I have started adding one TEASPOON of normal table salt (which I use in my food) to a 1L bottle of water which I sip during the day.
Does anyone know if there is any harm associated with adding salt to drinking water. It is in very low quantity (1-2 TEASPOON in 1L water. Generally the amount I use in three meals - in a single one litre bottle of water.)
Thanks.
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EDITED: Replacing tablespoon with TEASPOON.
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A tablespoon seems extremely excessive since we shouldn’t get more than around a teaspoon of salt per day. Unless you’re not getting any salt whatsoever in the food you eat you probably don’t need more than a half a teaspoon of salt. As far as I understood adding salt isn’t even necessary unless you’re doing extended fasts.
It’s fine, if you are fasting your body doesn’t hang onto electrolytes as much. In the r/fasting subreddit there’s a recipe for snake juice which includes other electrolytes that are recommended as well.