Are You Salt Sensitive or Potassium Deficient? - Dr. Berg on Hyponatremia and Hypokalemia | DrEricBergDC

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hi guys I have a question are you salt

sensitive or potassium deficient so many

people are told that there’s salt

sensitive and they need to avoid sodium

right well guess what you realize that

your body needs a thousand milligrams of

sodium and if you’re deficient in sodium

here the symptoms headaches fatigue

lethargy nausea weak muscles yeah

because sodium is an electrolyte okay

now in your body sodium and potassium

work together okay they’re kind of a

pair of minerals that work together we

need four times as much potassium as we

do sodium so instead of accepting the

diagnosis that you need to cut down your

salt try this experiment and see if it

doesn’t really fix the problem

especially for blood pressure raise your

potassium you can keep your so your your

sodium at thousand milligrams that raise

your potassium to the normal level and

see what happens you’re going to find

out that your blood pressure will

probably come down and you’ll feel a lot

better but we need a lot of potassium

now the question is where do you get

potassium you get it from large amounts

of salad you need to consume between

seven and ten cups of vegetable or salad

every single day to get your potassium

not from bananas bananas only have 300

milligrams per banana so you have to

have like ten or twelve bananas but I

would do it from salad okay you can do

it you can enhance it with a supplement

as well but I would recommend you do it

from actual food as much as possible now

the average American consumes 3,700

milligrams of sodium per day so that’s a

lot of sodium and they only consume a

thousand milligrams of potassium so they

have it just reversed and this is where

the problem is these people are not salt

sensitive they’re just potassium

deficient now in the 80s we had this

spike of blood pressure in so many

people where all of a sudden diagnosis

of salt sensitive and I want to talk

about that for a second because there’s

something else that happened in the 80s

that probably could have caused

so-called problem had this problem with

high blood pressure it’s the

introduction of high fructose corn syrup

in a major way - is corn syrup is in

pretty much replaced our sugar

not to mention sugar itself - just corn

syrup and sugar actually deplete you of

potassium in retain sodium yeah that’s

what I just let me just say it again

when you consume high fructose corn

syrup which is in all the juices it’s in

so many foods you basically in the sodas

as well you basically cause the

retention of potassium I’m sorry

retention of sodium and the depletion of

potassium so you lose your potassium

when you consume sugar or high fructose

corn syrup so that’s another cause of of

why people are potassium deficient so we

have they don’t get it from the diet

they consume a lot of sugar and then

there becomes potassium deficient that

they’re retaining the sodium and they

get fluid retention I mean the amount of

people that I used to have come in my

office and look at their ankles and just

swollen or puffed out all I do is I add

in the vegetables I cut out diverters

corn syrup I put them on the correct

eating plan and they dump tons of fluid

and it’s so easy plus the hidden in the

hidden msg and the junk foods monosodium

glutamate modified food starts the same

thing that is a hidden source of sodium

mono sodium so that you can get a lot of

food attention to if you’re going to

Chinese restaurant for example or a fast

food place they had built in there a lot

of sodium that’s hidden so again what we

want to do is you want to increase your

potassium don’t worry about cutting out

your sodium too low or you’re going to

feel weak and get a headache but just

get the junk out of the trunk so to

speak and let’s see how you can do with

your numbers with your blood pressure

and with your health thanks for watching

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