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so today we’re going to talk about why

blocks had a higher risk of diabetes and

high blood pressure

there’s a great article I’m gonna put it

down below by John Hopkins that talks

about having low potassium and then

increasing your risk for diabetes and

then having higher amounts of potassium

and decreasing your risk for diabetes

but there’s this huge focus on reducing

sodium right like cut your salt down if

you have high blood pressure for example

but what about increasing your potassium

that’s completely ignored our bodies

actually require a thousand milligrams

of sodium every single day that’s almost

one teaspoon level teaspoon of salt will

give you a thousand milligrams of sodium

but when we talk about potassium it’s

more than four times we need 4700

milligrams of potassium but we only need

a thousand milligrams of sodium okay so

the ratios are basically four to one and

very few people have this correct ratio

and those people with diabetes and high

blood pressure they’re lucky if they

have half the amount of potassium but

they do have a lot of sodium too hidden

sodium from junk foods

monosodium glutamate things like that

not to mention if you have high blood

pressure

you’re usually taking a diuretic right

thiazide well guess what that alone will

deplete your potassium high carbohydrate

diets deplete your potassium so serum

potassium or blood potassium is an

independent risk factor for diabetes so

now let’s just talk about what potassium

does in the body does a lot of things it

helps you store glycogen so here all the

glucose molecules they’re combined and

stored as stored sugar it’s called

glycogen with potassium so if we’re

potassium deficient we cannot store

glycogen like we should and then we’re

gonna crave sugar right we’re going to

crave sugar we’re gonna have blood sugar

swings up and down and also it’s going

to worsen insulin

which is always involved in diabetes and

when you have insulin resistance your

body makes more insulin and but it

doesn’t work so the blood sugars start

going higher and higher and higher so

when you lower your potassium your blood

sugars go up your arteries actually

stiffen up when you don’t have enough

potassium and that’s why the blood

pressure goes up so taking more

potassium can make your blood vessels

very elastic potassium actually protects

the kidney now when you have end-stage

kidney disease they don’t want you to

take potassium because it can be toxic

but if you don’t have end-stage kidney

disease you need potassium to protect it

and potassium can also decrease the risk

for gout which is usually pain in the

big toe and it’s a form of arthritis but

I think most people don’t realize what

this means like forty seven hundred

milligrams do I have to eat ten bananas

no because that’s too sweet because we

want to go on a low-carb diet for those

of you that are new I put a link down

below exactly what diet you need to do

to actually fulfill your potassium and

lower your carbs okay it’s a link right

down below but the most important thing

is to make sure that you consume foods

with enough potassium what will help is

to increase your salads okay very simple

have two salads and at the end of the

day if you can achieve between seven and

ten cups that will get you a lot closer

to this of course you’re gonna get

potassium out of other foods as well but

this is the easiest way to do it a

couple big salads and you will be

shocked to find out what happens to your

blood pressure and your blood glucose

levels one point about this that’s

interesting when you buy a supplement

you can’t find one higher than 99

milligrams that’s weird isn’t it but we

need 4700 milligrams so I highly

recommend start with your diet okay cut

the carbs down increasing the foods with

potassium and just see for yourself the

benefits not just blood Sugar’s and

cravings but blood pressure as well

alright thanks for watching

hey guys real quick I have a new healthy

keto eating plan for you just go to dr.

Berg comm it’s right on the front page I

put a link down below download it it’s

free check it out