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hi guys today we’re gonna talk about

potassium and when you should not take

extra potassium the typical situation is

that people are deficient potassium and

they need more potassium and it’s

actually a rare condition where you

would need to cut back okay now when I’m

talking about excess potassium you have

this condition called hyperkalemia this

is too much potassium in your blood

ninety-eight percent of all the

potassium is inside the cell versus the

outside the cell in order to really know

what’s happening with potassium I would

recommend taking an intracellular

potassium test and you can look it up

online to try to find out where you can

take it I think it would be a very

valuable thing but that would measure

how much potassium is inside the cell

that being said some of the symptoms

with hyperkalemia would be palpitations

muscle weakness numbness abnormal heart

rate and shortness of breath and these

are the identical symptoms by the way

when you have high blow Kelli Mia which

is interesting so you can’t really know

what’s happening based on the symptom

you could take a blood test however

these are the top three conditions where

you would not want to take potassium and

I’m going to tell you why first one is

stage 5 kidney disease that would be

end-stage renal failure renal meaning

kidney so if the kidneys are really

diseased you would not want to take

potassium however this is rare and

potassium normally protects the kidney

okay it helps the kidney

especially with blood pressure in fact

it can probably help you lower your

blood pressure so just because you have

kidney disease doesn’t mean you don’t

need normal amounts of potassium so you

just need to check with your doctor

they’re gonna tell you when you should

avoid potassium or take potassium if you

have a kidney problem and the real issue

with this is that if the kidney is

diseased and it stops filtering and

you’re taking more potassium you won’t

be able to release it and get rid of the

excess amount and too much potassium

could be a problem but if you have

healthy kidneys it’s almost impossible

to develop high berkelium you know too

much potassium

blood through taking too much potassium

because simply your body can easily get

rid of excessive amounts of potassium

mainly from the function of aldosterone

this is a hormone from the adrenal

glands and the purpose of aldosterone is

to retain sodium and get rid of excess

potassium so let me just kind of cover

this next reason and that’s if you had

an aldosterone deficiency and that can

come from adrenal failure several other

diseases of the adrenal gland in which

you just don’t have any more aldosterone

in that case you won’t be able to

regulate properly the potassium and it

can go too high again very rare okay

Addison’s disease this is a condition

also rare where you basically lose the

function of your adrenal glands and in

that state you you lose a lot of weight

your skin gets bronzed the inside of

your lips and even your lips can get

blue your immune system is very very

fragile and you lose a ton of salt or

basically sodium so if you were to take

excessive amounts of potassium guess

what you’re gonna do you’re gonna drive

down sodium even more well

Addison’s disease is a state where you

really need more salt in a patient with

this condition should be taking a ton of

salt through the day to actually

maintain the adrenal function and they

should definitely avoid potassium

because this is the mineral that they’re

having a problem they have enough

potassium but they don’t have enough

sodium and as a side note insulin helps

you absorb potassium in your cells and

if you have insulin resistance like a

lot of people have guess what you’re

generally going to be deficient in

potassium you’re not going to have

enough potassium in cells which is a

more common condition so taking more

potassium will help regulate insulin and

definitely help insulin resistance

alright guys thanks for watching

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