Hey CARNIVORES 🥩 I wanted to share a small update here in the Facebook carnivore group, since a while ago I asked for advice regarding salt intake. I’ve managed to improve that situation a lot, and I’m much more stable now with minerals and hydration. However, I’m still experiencing another issue and I wanted to ask for your opinions, because I’m trying to understand what’s really going on. For the past year I’ve been strictly carnivore, and only recently I’ve started to understand a pattern that has been affecting me for months. About a month and a hall months ago, I noticed that every time I ate, something strange happened: within about ten minutes after finishing a meal, I would suddenly develop an extreme, uncontrollable thirst. I’m talking about drinking two to two and a half liters of water almost in one shot, as if my body couldn’t stop. This would always leave me exhausted, drained, and never energized after meals. On top of that, if I pushed the water too far, I often ended up with diarrhea or very liquid stools shortly after. This happened throughout all the demands that I have done carnivore but a bit less than what is been in the last month. At the time, I didn’t understand why. I didn’t link it to the fat I was eating or the minerals I was adding. But looking back, I realize that I was consuming a lot of liquid fat — melted butter, rendered animal fat, or fat that naturally liquefied in my meals. I didn’t just cook with it; I actually ate all of the melted fat. Only later I understood that liquid fat can create a bit of problems to the stomach or intestines much more than solid fat. Another thing that made everything worse was salt. I was taking 5–6 grams of salt per day because after drinking so much water I felt extremely dehydrated, so I assumed I needed more minerals. But when I reached Chapter 13 of the CCI course, he explained how excessive salt or mineral intake can create this cycle of abnormal thirst, unstable hydration, pressure fluctuations, and even diarrhea. So I removed all salt and magnesium supplements completely, and surprisingly the constant dehydration feeling disappeared, my thirst became normal again outside of meals, and my mineral balance felt much more stable.