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hey good to see you again in this video

we’re talking about hypokalemia that’s

little potassium in your blood now you

might already know that you need a lot

of potassium you need close to about 5

grams it’s 4700 milligrams every single

day and that’s like 7 to 10 cups of

vegetables some people never reach that

point but you need a lot of potassium

90% of the potassium is inside the cell

so by the time that shows up deficient

outside the cell in your blood you’re

pretty low simply because the cellular

reserves actually are there to backup if

there’s a problem in the blood so some

of the symptoms of a low potassium

situation would be fatigue leg cramps

because potassium is a main electrolyte

for the muscle and the nervous system

okay weakness constipation because you

have muscles in your colon and you have

nerves arrhythmias like atrial

fibrillation heart palpitations because

the electrical system in the heart needs

potassium and then we have high blood

pressure so in other words you need

potassium to keep blood pressure low but

look at this one of the causes of low

potassium the blood is diuretics what do

people use diuretics for lower blood

pressure you see the problem they’re

high cortisol so when you have high

cortisol from stress or taking a steroid

you’re going to deplete your potassium

to diarrhea can do it vomiting Dietary

you just don’t have enough in your diet

so if you’re not consuming enough

potassium in the diet you need to start

increasing the amount then we also have

a ketogenic diet so this is why we

talked about the key to adaptation you

have a lot of like keto flu or keto

rashes or any symptoms like headaches

that can occur in the transition phase

usually means that you need more

potassium or electrolytes or B vitamins

but with the ketogenic diet you use more

potassium in the transition of

fat-burning diabetes so here this would

be like diabetes is like the opposite of

the ketogenic diet so when you have

diabetes or pre-diabetes like an insulin

resistance you have high insulin what’s

going to happen that’s going to

deplete potassium too and block

potassium from from going inside

yourself then we have something called

alkalosis this is not the whole body

being alkaline it means that your blood

is excessively alkaline now normally

your blood is alkaline but this is

excessively too alkaline

make sense well guess what low potassium

will cause this and by the way high

cortisol will cause us to in fact almost

every single person who has hypokalemia

also has alkalosis so they go hand in

hand in fact the symptoms of alkalosis

and hypokalemia are almost identical

then we have sugar sugar will deplete

potassium and especially high fructose

corn syrup okay so the theme of this

video would be consume more potassium or

if you’re if there’s any of these that

you’re like if you’re on diuretics for

example well you might want to increase

more potassium get your blood pressure

improved so you can come off that stuff

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