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we’re going to talk about high levels of potassium  in your blood okay first thing you need to know  

is the name of that is hyperkalemia when you  have a deficiency of potassium in the blood  

that’s called hypokalemia the other thing  to know which is very important is that 98  

of all your potassium in your body is inside your  cell not outside the cell and not in your blood  

so when we’re evaluating hyperkalemia we’re really  looking at this two percent so we don’t really  

see the whole picture of what’s going on it’s  very rare there are very little symptoms that  

are associated with this if it’s severe you can  get palpitations you can be very tired and have  

muscle pain and weakness there’s a condition  called pseudo hyperkalemia in this situation  

when they’re drawing your blood to  do get the sample to do the testing  

if they damage your blood cells as they’re drawing  it out there’s some type of trauma involved  

what happens is it cracks open these cells and  leaks out more potassium giving this pseudo or  

false impression that you have high levels of  potassium so i just want to bring this point up  

right here now there’s a couple reasons why you  might have high levels of potassium in the blood  

advanced kidney disease is probably the  number one because when the kidney is damaged  

you don’t release certain minerals especially  potassium addison’s disease is another reason  

this is an autoimmune condition of your adrenal  glands in which you’re losing a ton of sodium  

and when you’re losing all the sodium you’re also  retaining potassium so you would not necessarily  

ever want to give someone potassium if they had  advanced kidney disease or addison’s disease  

there’s a couple medications that can also raise  your potassium in the blood nsaids for pain and  

certain high blood pressure medications now  the other thing to know is excessive intake of  

potassium is not a primary cause of hyperkalemia  why because your body has certain mechanisms to  

get rid of excessive potassium and this is very  different from sodium we tend to retain sodium  

so if we take too much potassium our bodies  can get rid of it very easily through the  

urine now what’s interesting is the treatment for  hyperkalemia is taking certain types of calcium or  

injecting the person with insulin and i’m talking  medical treatment or dextrose which is a sugar  

or sodium bicarbonate which is baking soda now  what i find interesting is these two things  

right here insulin and dextrose so if you’re  in a high carb diet and you’re raising insulin  

or you’re going to elevate sugar you’re going to  create more of a problem with this right here not  

this right here now it’s also important to talk  about the opposite of hyperkalemia hypokalemia  

which is way more common it’s the most common  form of electrolyte imbalance when someone’s  

hospitalized and here are a few symptoms leg  cramps weakness constipation abnormal heart rhythm  

issues arrhythmias etc and the main point i want  to bring up which is the last point is you have  

to realize that the majority the vast majority of  potassium is inside the cell and so measuring it  

based on the blood is not a good way to determine  if you have too much or too little potassium  

there is another test it’s an intracellular  potassium test which is much more valuable and i’m  

going to put a link down below if you want to know  more information about that i would highly suggest  

to get this test if you’re interested in knowing  your intracellular potassium and intracellular  

magnesium it gives you a lot of great data and it  can also tell you if you’re at risk for getting  

arrhythmias because that would be one of the  big symptoms of that or even high blood pressure  

all right thanks for watching and i’ll see you  in the next video before you go if you have a  

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