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so I want to talk about the

sodium-potassium ratios that we need

typically a person thinks of sodium

being dangerous to the heart blood

pressure and can even increase the risk

of getting a stroke but the question is

is it the higher amount of sodium or is

it the deficiency of potassium now I’m

going to put some links down below that

talk about potassium being protective

against strokes the kidney the heart in

potassium actually lowering blood

pressure so what’s even more important

than these two minerals is the ratio

they come in normally you would need

4700 milligrams for potassium and 2300

for sodium and an average person has

them flipped and that’s what’s going to

put them in trouble so ideally you would

need two to one but if there’s already

an imbalance or you have a problem with

the heart or blood pressure I would

raise potassium three to one or even a

four to one ratio but it does take a

period of time to correct this it could

take months or even a couple years but

the more sodium that you have in the

diet the lower the potassium so they

kind of work in opposites now what’s

interesting is one ounce of bread

contains 210 milligrams of sodium two

tablespoons of salad dressing at the

grocery store can give you over 500

milligrams of sodium six ounces of pizza

that’s actually one slice is almost a

thousand milligrams of sodium right

there eight ounces of v8 will give you

over a thousand milligrams and one

little can of tomato soup is one

thousand two hundred and sixty

milligrams of sodium that’s a tremendous

amount of sodium with the carbohydrates

okay so not only do we have more sodium

we have more carbs and the carb depletes

potassium plus the sodium we use in

carbohydrates are not in the form of sea

salt it’s in the form of sodium chloride

so you don’t have all the other minerals

involved sea salt has 84 minerals table

salt has

these foods usually have MSG monosodium

glutamate which is additional sodium

that they don’t factor into the label

there so in America we’re really heavy

on the sodium the carbs and very low on

potassium so this is the perfect

chemistry to set someone up for high

blood pressure and eventual

cardiovascular problems so the point of

this video is to understand that these

ratios of potassium sodium are more

important than these minerals

individually as long as you’re doing a

two to one ratio you’re going to be good

and if you want to correct it go up to a

3 to 4 to 1 ratio and that’ll work even

faster if you’re the person that doesn’t

have a lot of potassium in the diet you

don’t like vegetables well you just

better make sure that your sodium is

very very low as well so you can keep

these ratios in check so if you want

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