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hey guys I’m back and I’ve been doing a

lot of research on potassium so I wanted

to create this video it’s actually quite

interesting this topic relates to how

potassium affects your muscle strength

and your exercise endurance okay I want

to give you a little background but I’m

gonna make it as simple as possible you

have these little tiny pumps on your

cells on the membrane of the cells you

have billions of them they’re called the

sodium potassium pump they’re a little

tiny protein molecule that have enzyme

activity and you have billions of them

and they work 24/7 and the name of the

entire structure is sodium potassium

ATPase the ACE is an enzyme and the ACE

basically splits up this energy currency

the ATP so it can have energy to do its

job 30% of all of your energy and your

body is allocated to these tiny pumps

now what do they do

all they do is they push out sodium and

pushing in potassium so they push out

24,000 sodium ions and they push in

16,000 potassium ions now if you do the

math there’s a difference of 8,000 so

that difference is very very important

because that difference makes the inside

of the cell more negative than the

outside and it creates a little voltage

so basically this pump turns a cell into

a battery to allow muscles to do their

work through the nervous system so if

you’ve ever taken a biochemistry class

and not sure how it worked I hope I

explained this in a real simple way now

if this pump is not working you’re gonna

feel it in your strength you’re gonna

feel weaker and you’re definitely not

going to have the endurance and there’s

several things that can influence that

number one low potassium in your diet

you don’t get enough potassium you don’t

need enough vegetables you just you

don’t have enough potassium in general

now it could be you have you know

vomiting diarrhea excessive laxatives

something like that where it’s

depleting potassium but also training

the more you exercise the more of these

you develop the more inactive you are

the less of these you’re gonna have in

your muscles and by the way the biggest

concentration of these pumps are in the

skeletal muscle now if you have insulin

resistance because you’re pre-diabetic

or a diabetic that can limit these as

well also if your thyroid is low you

won’t have enough of those pumps if you

have low magnesium you need magnesium

from potassium to work you’re gonna it’s

going to affect these pumps if you have

kidney damage that can affect the pumps

if you’re on diuretics it’ll deplete you

of potassium if you drink too much

coffee two to three cups per day that

will definitely deplete your potassium

and lastly if you actually experiencing

too much stress and you have too much

cortisol that will also create a

potassium deficiency in effect these

pumps so as an experiment if you’re

exercising now go ahead and increase the

amount of potassium in your diet and

just observe the difference in your

strength and your exercise endurance

thanks for watching

you