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i always like to look at the

link between things cause and effect the

association between things

the relationship between

common problems and medications

and their side effects and i think the

best topic to demonstrate this is with

the cardiovascular system so you have

various problems with your heart okay

you have arrhythmias

you have

high cholesterol even though from my

viewpoint that’s not a problem unless

you’re doing high carbs but when you’re

dealing with things like atherosclerotic

plaquing you have a combination of

fibrin which is the protein you have

cholesterol and you have calcium and

then you have clots okay a thrombus

and there’s various medications to thin

the blood to reduce your chance of

clotting and then you have like

tachycardia which is high pulse rate

and another condition called

hypertension which is high blood

pressure and each separate problem comes

with its own medication its own

treatment and of course each medication

has its own side effects but with

cardiovascular conditions they don’t

really go very deep as far as causation

they might say that heart disease is

caused by high blood pressure or they

might say that heart disease is caused

by a clot

or a buildup of cholesterol or heart

disease is caused by arrhythmias they’re

not going deeper they might mention

lifestyle

diet

too much salt eating fatty foods but

that’s about it what i want to talk

about is

electrolytes in relationship to the

cardiovascular system so we have

electrolytes which are

like potassium magnesium

calcium and sodium and these

electrolytes really control the nerves

and the muscles and the relationships

and the heart is a muscle and it has

nerves that control it

and it has even a pacemaker that

controls the rhythm and what you’re

going to find very shortly there’s this

huge connection between

electrolyte

imbalances

and cardiovascular

function and what i mean by electrolyte

imbalances you should never just rely on

one electrolyte or take it for a long

period of time you can take it for a

short period of time

to correct an imbalance but you have to

realize these electrolytes

work in a balance

in other words if you have too much

potassium for example you’re going to

have a deficiency of magnesium and a

deficiency potassium could also be

related to a deficiency in magnesium and

so some of these electrolytes have a

direct and indirect effect on each other

you also have the relationship between

calcium and magnesium if one goes up the

other one might go down

you have another relationship between

potassium and sodium if you’re consuming

a lot of salt for example

you’re going to need more potassium and

if you have enough potassium you’ll be

protected by a lot of sodium and then

there’s even a relationship between

calcium and sodium calcium can even

block sodium as in a calcium channel

blocker which is a medication

for arrhythmias and blood pressure and

so some of these uh medications for

heart conditions

actually either block or increase an

electrolyte so before i get into the

relationships i want to just first talk

about arrhythmias okay this is a

abnormal heart rhythm the heart should

normally be in rhythm and when it’s not

in rhythm you can have a lot of issues

with pulling blood and clotting and

all sorts of issues but what you need to

know

is that

you really need all of the electrolytes

in the right balances for everything to

work because you can have an arrhythmia

problem with a deficiency of potassium

as well as an excess of potassium you

can have arrhythmias if there’s not

enough magnesium or if there’s too much

magnesium

you can have arrhythmias if you have not

enough calcium or too much calcium and

so the key is the sweet spot so if i

were to tell you

too much calcium causes heart attacks

for example and i just did a video on

that of course you’re going to be

avoiding calcium but what you have to

realize is that you also have the

problem with deficiencies so you need

the balance of all the electrolytes and

of course the cool thing about getting

your electrolytes from food primarily is

that you get these electrolytes in the

correct balance and if you’re going to

take electrolyte powder of course make

sure it’s in the right balance so the

next thing i want to tell you is the

relationship between potassium and

magnesium i already mentioned that too

much potassium can create a magnesium

deficiency now you might be saying well

how am i going to get too much potassium

is it just from consuming too much

potassium

actually probably not it’s going to be

more from the soil

most farming

methods now are focused on just three

minerals okay

npk

n

nitrogen

p phosphorus and k is potassium

so if you’re going to just use mpk in

the soils and you’re going to put a lot

in there

you’re going to create a magnesium

deficiency

and magnesium has an anti-thrombotic

effect in other words it helps to reduce

thrombosis or clotting magnesium is

incredible for the heart it’s good for

arrhythmias it is a natural calcium

channel blocker which is another

medication they use

for

high blood pressure and arrhythmias and

so unfortunately a lot of our food that

we consume

is very very deficient in magnesium

because the soils are deficient in

magnesium

and the plants even though they have

chlorophyll that green stuff which is

made out of magnesium is usually low in

magnesium and i do want to say also if

you’re low in potassium that can create

a magnesium deficiency so again we just

need the right amounts of each but since

i’m going to be starting a channel on

growing food in

plants i’m going to be talking a lot

about this npk and how it just throws

off the balance of all these other

minerals that are needed so there’s some

fascinating data in

having enough magnesium in preventing

clots there’s other great data on having

enough magnesium and preventing

arrhythmias or palpitations i mean it

just blows me away that some

cardiologists

they put you on a medication to regulate

the heart beat but they’re not looking

at the electrolytes and please don’t

come off your medication from this video

check with your doctor before making any

changes the reason i’m doing this video

is to educate you so you can then

educate your doctor or at least bring up

questions that need to be brought up and

then we have this uh this other symptom

of high blood pressure which has been

hugely significantly associated with a

potassium deficiency with a magnesium

deficiency i mean even the fda recently

came out and

are allowing

people to use the magnesium claim for

helping decrease the risk of high blood

pressure of course it has to be phrased

in a certain way so high blood pressure

can come from low potassium low

magnesium and

high

calcium okay

we’ll come back to that and this is why

a common medication that’s used for high

blood pressure is calcium

channel

blockers what does a calcium channel

blocker do it blocks

calcium to help you lower

blood pressure it also helps with atrial

fibrillation because too much of one

electrolyte can throw off other

electrolytes

now what’s interesting as a side effect

from calcium channel blockers

i think if i’m not mistaken it’s 70

percent of people that take this are at

risk for a side effect of edema because

your lymphatic system is dependent on

your vascular system and if you’re going

to inhibit calcium you can many times

inhibit the muscular contraction that is

supposed to help push this fluid and you

can end up with edema in your lower legs

as a side effect from the calcium

channel blockers and of course another

side effect from the calcium channel

blockers is low

calcium now remember when i said low

calcium can be a cause of

heart arrhythmias and then we get

another group of medications that

are diuretics

that are used to help lower blood

pressure

i mean this just blows me away like

there’s a

diuretic called hctz

that has direct side effects of a

potassium deficiency a magnesium

deficiency a sodium deficiency and not a

deficiency but an excess of calcium in

other words it causes you to retain

calcium now remember when i just

mentioned high blood pressure and that

can be caused by

not enough potassium not of magnesium

and too much calcium so diuretics could

actually create high blood pressure

indirectly and two other side effects

are very very surprising from these

diuretics one is it can increase your

risk for diabetes because it can

increase your blood sugars and two it

can increase your lipids as in cause

high cholesterol but don’t worry we have

statins for that but of course the

statins have a side effect of increasing

blood pressure as well as increasing

blood sugars

as well

so anytime you have the treatment for

something causing part of the same

problem to me you don’t have the optimum

solution a solution shouldn’t give you

additional problems

and then we have um

things that thin the blood like

uh warfarin so warfarin blocks vitamin

k1 but it has a very

severe and significant side effect of

causing vascular calcification

so that can definitely increase blood

pressure now there’s also something

called a beta blocker and that has to do

with reducing adrenaline okay part of

the sympathetic nervous system to help

reduce blood pressure but there’s two

interesting side effects one is that it

can cause a potassium deficiency okay

and two it can cause a magnesium

deficiency now both magnesium and

potassium deficiencies

can increase cortisol and adrenaline

i mean potassium and magnesium are the

physiological tranquilizers they relax

you they decrease stress they help you

sleep and so the medication to help you

lower blood pressure can actually end up

causing more adrenaline or cortisol this

just doesn’t make sense to me and then

we get to another medication called an

ace inhibitor and this has to do with um

affecting certain hormones that

can affect blood

fluids in your body retention of fluids

as well as blood pressure so an ace

inhibitor targets more blood pressure

issues but the problem is

the side effect from that is the

retention of potassium and the depletion

of magnesium so again these

solutions for cardiovascular problems

really throw off your electrolytes in in

direct and indirect ways so in summary a

very very important thing to know about

a healthy cardiovascular system is the

balance

of the electrolytes in their right

ratios and you need to look at the big

picture you need to ask questions that

dig deep into the underlying root causes

in certain parts of heart disease and

the big takeaway is that

any solution that gives you a bigger

problem is not the optimum solution so

if you want to know the best foods to

support a healthy cardiovascular system

i put that video up right here check it

out

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