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okay we’re going to talk about a very

important mineral potassium okay why is

it so important well number one because

we need so much of it

out of all the nutrients vitamin A

vitamin B calcium magnesium potassium

being a mineral is needed in large

amounts I’m talking forty seven hundred

milligrams okay because it’s used in all

the cellular reactions it’s also used to

store your sugar in your liver and your

muscle now let’s explain what I mean by

that

stored sugar is a good thing we need to

store some sugar to be able to handle a

quick release of energy and glucose

being the molecule of sugar if you stick

them together in a group they’re called

glycogen so glycogen is the storage of

glucose mainly in the liver mainly in

the muscles and it’s used like you know

very instant so you can regulate that so

we need that it just so happens

potassium is the mineral that allows

glucose to be stored as glycogen so for

every glucose molecule you need one

potassium molecule or element so that’s

one thing okay so let’s say you’re

deficient potassium that means you’re

not going to store the glucose as well

so if you don’t store glucose your body

then stores more fat yeah that’s

interesting so a couple of points where

do you get your potassium mainly from

vegetables but you can can get it from

animal proteins as well but you know

like the Greens of leafy greens beet

tops are really high avocados are very

very large amounts in avocados so how do

we know we’re getting enough potassium

well one cup of greens vegetable or

salads on average equal one ounce okay

one cup equals one ounce

and you need 4,700 so you’re going to

you’re going to need about between eight

and ten ounces or eight seven it will

actually seven to ten cups okay or seven

to ten ounces that would be like one of

those salad containers or bags of salad

that you see at the grocery store just

need one of those per day it’s not too

much right when you take a cup of salad

I’m not talking about like pack it down

extremely tight just kind of like put it

in like a good handful that’s like one

cup or one out you need to leave seven

up to ten i consume more than that i

consumed probably twenty it doesn’t hurt

if you have more because the kidneys

will also get rid of anything that’s too

much especially when it comes down

potassium a lot of people supplement

potassium because it’s hard to get the

potassium and they get it straight into

the body and also in certain conditions

you need more potassium to improve these

conditions one is rheumatoid arthritis

big time you go up into the six thousand

seven thousand milligrams you can really

put those symptoms in remission

another one is diabetes or insulin

resistance why because insulin does

control it’s like the door that allows

insulin uh potassium to go into cell so

insulin controls level of potassium and

when you have instant resistance you

can’t pull that potassium in the cell so

if you don’t hold the task in the cell

you have a lot of problems to make a

long story short and make it really

simple if you increase more potassium in

the diet you decrease the stress on the

insulin dysfunction you decrease the

need for insulin so having a little more

will actually help insulin resistance

and diabetes

so they both work kind of like a teeter

totter if you have enough potassium you

won’t have um sugar cravings why because

you

to store the sugar and you’re good at

your body you’re going to have better

blood sugar levels because potassium

stabilizes blood sugars so you don’t

have this dip down so potassium helps

blood sugars insulin dysfunction and

cravings for sweet if you crave for

sweet we know your potassium deficient

so we need more potassium when I consume

a meal I always have the vegetable first

now at the end of the meal why because

I’ve experimented if I do the protein

first I tend to will keep eating more

and more protein is like no turn off

switch verses the vegetable first which

gives me the potassium and it kind of

turns off that hunger and I don’t need

as much protein my son for example

you’ll sit down and eat chicken wings

he can eat talking like massive

quantities so I get in to have the

vegetable first and they doesn’t need as

much protein because we just need like

three to six ounces so I was to have the

vegetable first for that reason when you

consume potassium you help you balance

the sodium okay so we need this

potassium sodium ratio so we need four

times as much potassium sodium and

that’s why we need this most people have

way too much sodium and not enough

potassium so they’re going to retain

fluid when you have a little potassium

retain fluid in your salt sensitive high

blood pressure if you take potassium

your blood pressure comes right down

probably is in in many cases the cause

of high blood pressure low potassium now

as you do a ketogenic diet that’s real

low carbs low carbs and you’re going to

dip a lot of fluid it’s one of the

things one one thing is that with carbs

especially refined carbohydrates sugars

cause retention of fluid okay because

when you consume carbohydrate you also

deplete your potassium so when you have

like cakes and cookies and sugar and

donuts and breads and pasta you’re

automatically depleting the potassium

now why is that well because in nature

sugar cane is probably one of the one of

the highest things with potassium that

you can consume not one the highest but

it’s very very high okay so there’s a

lot of potassium in sugar cane but what

they do is they refine it and they get

rid of the potassium and other minerals

like iron into molasses and they put as

white refined sugar and brown sugar as a

really depleted potassium deficient

sweetener when you consume this refined

sweetener over here without the mineral

you tend to your body almost like starts

deplete it’s a potassium depleted it’s

almost like your body will start trying

to recombine that glucose with sugar and

starts pulling from reserves so in other

words to make a long story short when

you consume sugar I’m trying to make

this really simple when you can turn

refined sugar junk food you’re depleting

your potassium and you’re you’re

increasing your sodium and you’re

increasing your fluid retention so we

cut that out you dump a lot of fluid

okay so you can you can drop a lot of

weight in one week that’s good

but you better put your potassium back

in there because if you’re dumping a lot

of fluid you need to put the hydration

back in there so you have the volume of

fluid not just water you need the

electrolytes that help the conductivity

so when people do the ketogenic diet and

they feel really tired or you just need

to add a little potassium and boom the

energy comes up sometimes little sodium

even with low blood pressure

you know you need potassium and sodium

to help get more fluid in there not just

water so our bodies need fluid okay so I

wanted to just give you an overview of

potassium and what it can do and how

important it is so make sure you your

vegetables on this program thanks for

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