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today I want to talk about the relationship between potassium and

insulin it’s very interesting especially if you are a diabetic or have insulin

resistance so insulin is a hormone that causes you to store fat in the presence

of insulin it’s almost impossible to burn fat in this way because insulin

prevents the fat burning so it’s all about storing sugar as fat and it’s

preventing the oxidation or breakdown of fat insulin also stores glucose so let’s

say for example you ate some sugar or some refined carbs now the body is going

to store that as storage sugar insulin turns glucose into glycogen so this is

what glycogen looks like it’s a string of glucose molecules held together and

stored sugar and you also have potassium involved as well so a potassium is

necessary in the storage of glycogen so the main purpose of insulin is to lower

your blood sugar and it does that through taking the sugar and putting

into storage as glycogen or as fat and if you’re diabetic and you take

medication to lower your blood sugar the question is so where’s it going it’s

being hidden as fat it’s not evaporating so basically these medications are

taking out of the blood and putting it somewhere else

now insulin also helps put the potassium in your cells so that’s one of the

purposes when you consume a high glucose diet or a high carb diet you deplete

potassium from the inside of the cell so you lose potassium so if you consume a

lot of carbohydrates at one time you’re gonna show potassium deficiency symptoms

like your pulse rate will start going up you’ll have a hard time sleeping your

blood pressure might go up you may feel palpitations in your heart or heart

arrhythmia type symptoms taking potassium makes insulin less resistive

as well so it’s really good to improve insulin resistance and if you’re

diabetic you have insulin resistance and this is

why all diabetics should be making sure they get enough potassium and more to

help their blood Sugar’s and improve the normalization of insulin if you’re

deficient in potassium that’s going to impair glucose and even increase the

risk for instant resistance just by having a deficiency of potassium and

then you’re being put on the medication like a diuretic which then can deplete

potassium and cause more high blood pressure and also if you have instant

resistance and you’re diabetic you take metformin and one of the problems in the

form and it depletes potassium so my point about this video is if you’re a

diabetic make sure you have enough potassium and I created a very important

video on diabetes a long time ago and I put it on this page right here check it out