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Re:What happens to your brain when you give up sugar by padobson on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:02PM (#28224086)
otherwise I would get a headache

In my experience, headaches from cutting out carbs are almost always because your body is retaining less water and you're running low on water/electrolytes. Add some salt, zinc, magnesium and potassium to your diet.

When I do extended fasts (1-5 days), I'll literally grind up cal-mag-zinc pills, add salt, and dilute them in warm water and drink them. It tastes awful, and there's products out there that work better, but it feels great once your body absorbs it.

Re:What happens to your brain when you give up sugar by iheartblocks on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:03PM (#28227114)
fyi, zinc and magnesium are competitively absorbed [1] so you might see a bit better absorption if you took those separately

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7836627/