Can High Dosages of Potassium Be Toxic?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
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Is there such a thing as a toxic dosage of potassium? Watch and find out.
The first thing you should know is that you will rarely if ever, have a problem with potassium if you get it from fresh food—even at 10 cups of vegetables per day.
However, there are a few exceptions, including if you:
• Have stage 5 kidney disease
• Take an ace inhibitor
• Take a beta-blocker
• Use potassium-sparing diabetics
• Have Addison's disease
• Have hyperkalemia
Now let's talk about extreme doses of potassium. When you have between 8,000 and 10,000 mg of potassium, you may begin to feel nauseous. If you are already low on potassium and you take something like 14,000 mg of potassium, this could be very dangerous.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So is there such a thing as a toxic dosage of potassium. Let's talk about that. |
| 0:49.8 | Now the first thing to know is that you will rarely, if ever, have a problem with potassium if you get it from food. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm talking about 7 to 10 cups of vegetables per day. |
| 0:58.0 | Unless you have stage 5 kidney disease. |
| 1:03.0 | If the kidney is damaged, |
| 1:05.0 | if you're having a chronic kidney problem, |
| 1:08.0 | you're not going to be able to filter out potassium like you should |
| 1:11.0 | and it can build up and create a lot of problems with your body. |
| 1:14.7 | Also if you're taking large amounts of potassium and you're on an ACE inhibitor which is a |
| 1:19.7 | blood pressure medication or a beta blocker or a potassium sparing diuretics trying to lower |
| 1:25.8 | your blood pressure or you have Addison's disease which is rare but it's a complete |
| 1:31.6 | adrenal burnout and you're taking a lot of potassium, it could |
| 1:35.8 | exaggerate the symptoms. |
| 1:38.6 | There is a condition called hypercalemia which is a problem in the blood |
| 1:44.1 | where you have too much potassium. |
| 1:46.0 | And the symptoms would be malaise, palpitations, |
| 1:49.1 | shortness of breath, muscle weakness. |
| 1:52.3 | Now, let's talk about the extreme dosage and when the |
| 1:56.2 | beast starts becoming toxic. When you go between 8,000 to 10,000 milligrams |
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