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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about potassium in relationship to your  

cardiovascular system this little video  is based on a really cool article that  

I put down there to download if you have any  cardiovascular problems you need to read this  

article this is called the new guideline for  potassium replacement in clinical practice  

so it’s a group of cardiologists who formed the  National Council on potassium and they show the  

importance of potassium for the cardiovascular  system so I want to just kind of cover some of  

the summaries in what potassium can do first  of all if you have a potassium deficiency the  

name of that disorder is called hypokalemia and  you can remember by kale kale right hypokalemia  

that’s low potassium now if you have a potassium  deficiency you might feel tired leg cramps muscle  

weakness constipated tremor because potassium  is intimately involved with muscle physiology  

neurophysiology and cardiovascular physiology so  you can also have atrial fibrillation which is a  

rhythm problem of the heart high blood pressure in  fact in most cases of high blood pressure there is  

a potassium deficiency and what do they give you a  diuretic what is diuretics do most of them deplete  

potassium so it’s like a never-ending cycle and  then also if you’re low on potassium you will  

have a higher pulse rate potassium lowers your  pulse rate okay so now the question is how could  

you possibly get a potassium deficiency right  well here are some of the causes one is maybe  

too much sodium because when you increase sodium  you naturally decrease potassium because they work  

together but maybe it’s not potassium maybe it’s  low manganese or magnesium sir magnesium so when  

you magnesium is necessary to keep potassium  in the right balance and that comes from the  

vegetables all right insulin high insulin so let’s  say you have insulin resistance or you’re diabetic  

you know that you’re not going to be able to  absorb potassium that well and that’s why you  

there’s always a diamond fluid choose in fact it  takes potassium to heal the insulin dysfunction  

you can almost correct insulin resistance and  improve your blood Sugar’s by taking potassium  

fascinating and then of course too much sugar from  the spike insulin will actually deplete potassium  

too many refined carbs will do it that’s why if  you consume a lot of sugar all of a sudden your  

pulse rate starts going higher also high cortisol  that’s the stress also in a camera a medication  

called prednisone that can also deplete your  potassium of course you have the diarrhea and  

vomiting to some degree and then also a condition  called alkalosis alkalosis is when your body is  

just too alkaline and I know you’ve been taught  that people need to just alkalize the body and  

all this stuff well actually when you go through a  lot of stress and you have high levels of cortisol  

your adrenal body type your pH becomes more on the  alkaline side your blood pH becomes excessively  

alkaline and that’s called PAL Colossus and one of  the symptoms is a potassium deficiency interesting  

right surgery in trauma when they do a major  abdominal surgery you you’re always watching  

for potassium because that potassium goes down  when you’re under the SIRT under surgery and  

you’re already deficient potassium you can create  some serious problems with the heart so that’s why  

they used to give you a potassium IV when you  go through surgery and then trauma I remember  

I had a bike accident went over the handlebars  and I let in the cement and my potassium just  

went down to zero and I think because when you  when you go through stress it spikes adrenaline  

adrenaline will decrease potassium too and then  we have low hydrochloric acid when you don’t  

have enough acid your stomach you can’t absorb  potassium and then you have potassium problems  

so it takes potassium to keep the stomach acids  correct and also taking potassium will help you  

digest and create stomach acids so so in other  words low potassium can create low hydrochloric  

acid but then adding acid back in can help  you absorb potassium drinking too much water  

or can deplete your potassium because water is  not necessarily filled with electrolytes so you  

take too much water you drink a gallon and you  deplete the last bit of potassium you have and  

then you end up why with all sorts of dehydration  problems right diuretic that’s another cause of  

potassium deficiencies and that comes from when  you’re on high blood pressure they give you the  

relic and then you become the task and deficient  and then you state you continue to have high blood  

pressure crazy so in this article that I want  you to download these doctors are recommending  

potassium to prevent and even correct a lot of  the cardiovascular problems and potassium has the  

potential to creep your arteries elastic decrease  the risk of the stroke and potassium can protect  

the kidney and even the heart so this whole idea  that if you have a kidney problem you absolutely  

must stay away from potassium is not necessarily  true unless it’s a severe case now how do you get  

potassium beet tops okay but if you don’t like the  DB tops you just need to start to increase your  

salad to seven to ten cups of salad why because it  takes that much potassium and we need a lot like  

close to forty seven hundred milligrams potassium  is also good for rheumatoid arthritis inflammatory  

conditions so you can see this mineral is  vital so for more information about nutrition  

and health and how to create a healthy body check  out my website at dr. Berg com I’ll see you there