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had a comment recently that i wanted to create a video on

uh someone had their blood pressure go up after starting keto so i decided to

create a video to explain what that is now there’s

something called glycogen glycogen is basically stored glucose so we have a

glucose molecule and when you store glucose molecules in

a chain in a group it’s called glycogen

and glycogen needs potassium to be stored

for every molecule of glucose that’s attached it needs one molecule of

potassium also one molecule of glucose

holds or retains three to three and a half

molecules of water so with each one of these little glucose

molecules that are attached you have three plus

molecules of water so when we think of glycogen we can really think of a sponge

you’re holding a lot of fluid all right so that’s concept number one

glycogen is stored sugar it holds a lot of water

it also stores potassium concept number two

this glycogen is stored in the liver and your muscles primarily it’s it’s

stored in other places but those are the two places it’s stored

when you do keto and you lower your carbs

and you do fasting okay intermittent fasting or

fasting you are going to deplete your liver glycogen now if you fast for

a little bit longer time you’re going to really deplete your

liver glycogen down to almost zero so now you’re just left with the

glycogen in your muscle so think about this you’re going to get

rid of all the stored glucose which comes with this water which comes

with this potassium you’re going to drop a lot of extra

fluid and electrolytes with an s because there’s other

minerals that go along with this so when you lose water you lose

electrolytes in general but we’re also losing

more potassium one of the main causes of hypertension

especially essential hypertension which is about 90 percent

of all cases of hypertension and by the way essential means

unknown cause there’s some great data that shows that this essential

hypertension is really a potassium deficiency

okay remember we just talked about that so when you do

keto not only do you lose potassium sometimes the requirement for potassium

goes up because we’re converting over to fat

burning as well and if you’re already deficient in

potassium and now you’re really deficient in potassium

your blood pressure could go up so how do we solve this

well we just do the healthy version of keto

start consuming more vegetables like seven to ten cups

things that are loaded with potassium avocados are a good thing to eat as well

so we do this we get more potassium hopefully the blood pressure can come

down you may also want to enhance your diet with some extra potassium

like a thousand milligrams potassium per day just to kind of speed things up

all right thanks for watching before you go

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