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i want to share with you some  information on potassium if you’re an  

athlete i highly recommend you start adding  more potassium to your diet and here’s why  

you have something in your body called the sodium  potassium pump okay in all the cells and this pump  

maintains the electrical gradient of the cell  keeping potassium in the cell and sodium outside  

the cell when basically that means it helps  form the voltage of the cell because your  

cells are many batteries and the purpose of  the cell being a battery is to activate nerves  

in muscles and when we’re talking about athletics  we’re talking about activating the nervous system  

and the muscular system so if you’re deficient in  potassium you’re going to get a little bit weaker  

your muscles are not going to relax and contract  like they should you’re not going to necessarily  

have the endurance that you should and a lot of  focus in sports has been on sodium and hydration  

which is very very important but what about  potassium we need more than double the potassium  

as we do sodium so i want you to try this  experiment add more greens and or potassium  

foods to your diet for a couple days and just  observe how much better your workouts are  

in strength endurance and your muscular tone then  for a couple days restrict yourself of potassium  

work out and notice what happens to your strength  your endurance and your muscular challenge and  

then you really know for sure and so there’s two  factors here we have the factory of getting enough  

potassium in the diet and then we also have  avoiding certain things that deplete you of  

potassium like refined carbs and sugar and also  when someone goes on a ketogenic diet they start  

doing low carbs they get rid of a lot of glycogen  that’s stored glucose and potassium is also needed  

in the storage of glucose and so when you get  rid of this extra stored glucose as glycogen  

you also get rid of potassium so you’re going  to end up being potassium deficient and so this  

is another reason why potassium is very very  important especially if you do keto so with  

the factor of sugars and refined carbs depleting  potassium we have the factor of potassium help you  

store glucose and then we get rid of the excess  glycogen we do keto and you’re now running on fat  

you need more potassium so whether you’re doing  more carbs or less carbs potassium is a very very  

important factor especially if you are exercising  hey before you go if you’re benefiting from any of  

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