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so today I want to talk about five

uncommon signs of a potassium deficiency

a lot of people understand the potassium

Xin volved with the heart the rhythm of

the heart maybe blood sugars nerve and

muscle physiology but what they might

not realize it’s involved in a lot of

other things as well

energy metabolism protein synthesis and

actually making muscle glucose

metabolism the conversion of glucose to

glycogen which is the storage form of

glucose so one of the biggest symptoms

of a potassium deficiency is fatigue

okay you just you just lose your energy

alright number two low endurance or low

stamina you just run it a gas fast

especially when you’re working out or

climbing stairs so you basically just

run out of energy a lot quicker than you

should

number three increase urination at night

so many times we’re thinking diabetes or

prediabetes but it could be a potassium

deficiency but that potassium deficiency

could be coming because you’re diabetic

because insulin resistance is involved

and when you have in some resistance you

can’t really absorb potassium and

magnesium that well and just as a side

note it’s very very important to take

extra potassium and magnesium if you

have diabetes or you have insulin

resistance that will actually help the

urination at night next one is

constipation because of the necessity of

potassium involved in the smooth muscle

that forms the colon and number five

paralysis after a high carb meal when

you consume a lot of carbohydrates your

need for potassium goes way up because

potassium is involved in not just energy

metabolism but glucose metabolism as

well and you have this shift of this

electrolyte out of the muscle cell

getting a temporary paralysis and this

relates even myself because when I was

getting married 29 years ago Karen and I

went to shop for wedding cakes so I

don’t know we were sampling all these

cakes this is before I knew anything

about nutrition and then we ended up at

an Italian restaurant and we had all

carbs pizza

I was doing wine that was really sweet

and then right at the end I noticed that

they were actually taking these carts of

all these desert samples they would come

around to the table and they mentioned

would you like to sample any of these

before we toss these and of course my

mind I don’t want to waste that good

food right so we started sampling all

this sugar all these desserts for

probably another half hour it was really

bad so that was a high carb meal as

we’re driving home I noticed my heart is

pounding like crazy I get into the house

and I feel like faint I feel tired my

muscles are weak like my legs are I feel

like like cement

I didn’t sleep one minute that night my

heart was racing I was totally awake so

that might have not have been a

paralysis but it was definitely a side

effect from doing too many carbs okay

guys so and also realized that you need

4700 milligrams of potassium and some

people need a little bit more especially

after doing the hardcore workouts and

you would get this mainly from these

things called vegetables even though

those are carbohydrates or lower with

potassium they’re actually low in sugar

and so that’s what you would consume to

build up your potassium Reserve thanks

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