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now in my show last week someone had a question  about having a high pulse rate every time she  

started keto her pulse rate would go up and  then she would get off keto it would come back  

down and she want to know what is behind that  so let’s talk about that now when you do keto  

you’re lowering your carbohydrates but going on  a keto diet doesn’t necessarily require you to  

increase other nutrients it’s really just about  lowering your carbs so as long as you lower your  

carbs you produce ketones and you’re on the  ketogenic diet but there’s a version of the  

ketogenic diet which i always recommend called  healthy keto and what that means is this you’re  

doing low carb but you’re also making sure you’re  eating foods to include all the nutrients that  

your body requires one of the interesting  things that happens when you go low carb  

is that you are no longer holding on to a  lot of your glucose the glucose that’s stored  

glycogen and this especially occurs when you do  fasting so if you’re combining keto with fasting  

because just within a day you can lose a lot of  your glycogen which is store glucose in your liver  

and what you need to know is that glycogen is a  sponge that holds a lot of fluid you see when you  

store fat as out of position you’re not storing  any fluid at all it’s only when you store glucose  

so you get on the ketogenic diet so you’re dumping  all this fluid guess what you’re also going to  

lose potassium magnesium your electrolytes so  unless you’re putting these electrolytes back  

into the diet you could end up with a higher pulse  rate because magnesium and especially potassium  

have a function of keeping your pulse rate  regulated and at a lower amount and this is also  

why when someone starts to increase more refined  carbohydrates their pulse rate goes up because  

it takes potassium to store these carbohydrates  as glycogen so the more glycogen you have you  

can lock up some of this potassium so both a high  carbohydrate diet can cause a potassium deficiency  

and a low carbohydrate diet could also cause  a potassium deficiency if you’re not consuming  

enough so very simply start consuming a lot more  vegetables or take potassium as a supplement  

now there’s one other nutrient deficiency that  can create a high pulse rate and that is low  

vitamin b1 thiamine so if by taking potassium  you still have a high pulse rate then add some b1  

or nutritional yeast and that should handle it  before you go if you have a question about a  

product or you’re new to keto and you want  to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto  

and you need a debug because it’s not going  as smooth i have a keto consultant standing  

by to help you this is just for the people in  the u.s hopefully in the future we’ll be able  

to answer everyone’s call but i put the number  down below so you can call and get some help