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at this doctor Berg I want to talk about

this question that keeps coming up I

always ask people what is the best

source of potassium and everyone says

bananas bananas are the worst source of

potassium I mean you have to consume 12

bananas to get your daily amount of

potassium because typically banana has

maybe three to four hundred milligrams

and the normal amounts that you need are

close to forty seven hundred forty seven

hundred so let’s kind of go through

first of all what what potassium

deficiencies will create and then I’ll

show you some other things on that let

me just give you access to this right

here okay potassium potassium is a

physiological relaxer it helps a lot of

things but but let me just kind of give

you the the key areas that potassium

will help number one blood pressure

why because potassium gets rid of excess

sodium to help balance the potassium

sodium ratio because sodium tends to

retain fluid increasing flow to tension

and blood pressure so potassium will

lower the blood pressure the metabolism

of protein so if you’re consumed if

you’re a meat-eater and you don’t eat a

lot of vegetables you won’t be able to

metabolize that protein so I’m talking

about the hairs nail skin the tissues

the structures the tendons the ligaments

you need potassium to be able to create

proteins on your body it controls blood

sugar so you know that in order to store

blood sugar in your liver and your

muscles you need potassium so without

potassium you’re going to crave sweets

and sugar like crazy and your blood

Sugar’s will will be more erratic so by

taking more potassium you can help

stabilize blood sugars potassium is a

main electrolyte which helps heart

function so you need it for the heart to

function to avoid getting Pappa tations

arrhythmias things like that potassium

is a relaxer so it helps you sleep at

night

recovery it helps prevent kidney stones

but see most people don’t even consume

the close to the normal amount that you

need per day you need 47 out of

milligrams that would be about seven to

ten cups of salad per day so if you buy

one of those big plastic containers of

salad they usually come in like ounces

so you have like I don’t know I think

it’s like 18 ounces for a real big one

that’s 18 cups so you would need to

consume half of that every single day to

get your potassium that’s how I get mine

through a lot of salads but there are

other vegetables that you can consume

potassium I’m going to show you those

right now okay so number one beet greens

has 1300 milligrams that’s crazy high

now when you go to the grocery store you

see you could you could buy beats right

you know those are but they have these

big stems with the leaves that would be

big greens very few people consume those

but if you put those in your salad you

will get a lot of potassium and it’s

also good for the gallbladder - Swiss

chard but very very bitter vegetable

I suggest saute it may put in your salad

you can juice it you can blend it so

that has 960 milligrams per cup avocados

almost 900 milligrams per avvocato a

medium amount I consume an avocado a day

in the morning when I have my eggs 4x I

throw avocados on there because I like

that I love avocados I don’t like them

ripe though I don’t like them too raw or

unripe that Roe okay so because they’re

always wrong you’re not going to cook

them

winter squash has a ton is like almost

900 spinach has 838 milligrams

sweet potato potato has a lot but I

wouldn’t recommend consuming those

unless you’re not trying to worry about

weight and because those can be kind of

starchy and look at bananas 3x 400

that’s for a big banana kind of a medium

size

small one would be 300 so you can see

right there that bananas are not the

best source of potassium and I think

that’s one of the myths out there now

here’s the thing um I like to get my

potassium from vegetables not fruit

because fruit has a little bit too much

sugar

so the other thing is that when you eat

protein like meats and things it doesn’t

really have a lot of potassium so you

must eat more salad and vegetables we

need a balance of potassium and sodium

sodium we need about a thousand

milligrams potassium we need about four

point seven more the ratio is of about

one to four one point actually one to

four point seven so I want to give it to

technical but the point is that from

every thousand milligrams of sodium you

need that much potassium so what a lot

of people will do is to lower their

sodium intake that’s not very smart

because you need sodium for energy for

your adrenals for a lot of things but

you want it in sea salt but the thing to

do is not to lower sodium but to

increase potassium so you have the

ratios because if you ever notice that

when you go home at night you might

crave the toss up like sweets right and

then you crave salt and then sweet and

then salt you’re trying to get

electrolytes from this food because your

body your adrenal glands are drained and

you’re tired so a much better way would

be to consume a large huge green salad

and then have something salty that would

really solve the problem so I just want

to create a little video on this myth

and I hope you got a couple tips so

start increasing your intake of

potassium and I will see you in the next

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