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so today we’re going to talk about why your muscles

need most of your potassium now what’s very unique about potassium is that

it’s one mineral that we need a tremendous amount of we need

4700 milligrams and out of all the tissues in the body

eighty percent is needed by your muscles mainly question is why do we need so

much and why is it going to the muscles but before i explain that i need to

explain something called the sodium potassium

pump okay you have billions of these little pumps

and what they do is they keep potassium on the inside of the cell and they keep

sodium outside the cell so that’s their main

purpose and the reason for that is anytime you have two different

minerals that are held apart like that by a pump and by a membrane the cell

wall you create a battery which is this you

have positive negative held apart that flow of electrons that current

generates a certain amount of energy that is stored in the battery

well your cells are mini batteries in fact

your brain has about 80 billion mini battery cells potassium is needed as a

raw material to make sure this pump works in fact 30 of all the energy

that you have in your body is allocated to this one little pump and because this

pump allows two potassium in and three sodium

out and that difference creates a voltage if we’re talking about

the muscle we’re talking about 90 millivolts

in a nerve it’s about 70 millivolts in the skin it’s about 50 millivolts the

voltage is just the power of this battery created by the

difference between these two minerals held apart

and another term for that is called membrane potential because

when it’s at rest it’s like a battery but then it gets activated and it starts

releasing this electrical charge that then causes

the muscle to contract and it creates nerve impulses and it

causes glands to secrete like hormones or even like sweat glands

the same principle happens in the thunderstorm where you have these clouds

that have a positive charge and the earth is negative and when those

clouds start building up moisture at a certain humidity you start

generating a tremendous amount of electrostatic

energy and when that electrical field gets to a certain point

it will discharge the energy as a thunderbolt

giving off 3 million volts per meter so that’s a tremendous amount of energy

that is discharged the same thing in the cell you have the cell wall

on the outside you have positive the inside you have negative

and you have a very very thin membrane okay it’s like five

nanometers of course this is a very large distance right here this is very

very tiny but the cell wall or membrane is two

layers of lipids or fats that keep these two minerals apart and

once the muscle is activated to contract or the nerve

is activated to send an impulse you lose potassium the more exercise you’re doing

the more you’re sweating the more you’re losing these

electrolytes if you’re injured or go through a surgery or trauma you

will lose potassium when the thyroid works it’s a gland

you’ll lose more potassium and also when you consume more refined

sugar you will also lose potassium as well

the other question is are we losing as much sodium

no not necessarily because sodium has a tendency to be retained in the body

but we do lose way more potassium and this is

why this is a requirement right here as far as the sodium requirement it’s about

half what we need as far as potassium when you do

fasting your body will have a tendency to retain

more potassium just as a survival mechanism so that’s one of the biggest

reasons why we have most of our potassium 80

in the muscles and then when our potassium becomes low the muscles become

weak you get tired you don’t have the endurance anymore

when especially when you exercise and your muscles start to cramp

if you haven’t seen my other videos on potassium i put them up

right here check it out