Do Diuretics (Water Pills) Now Cause Heart Attacks?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about heart attacks and diuretics. One of the most common diuretics is called thiazide is taken to lower blood pressure could cause potassium deficiency and 40% of people taking diuretics to develop a condition called hypokalemia or low potassium in the blood, increases the risk for arrhythmias, problems with the pacemaker of the heart and increases the risk for heart failure by 10x. Potassium deficiency in general increases blood pressure.

Before someone could get arrhythmia issue due to loss of potassium, they are going to first have symptoms in skeletal muscles:

• Muscle Spasm

• Cramps

• Tetany

• Muscle Weakness

• Tight Muscle

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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 diuretics, specifically those diuretics
0:49.6	like thiocyte, which deplete potassium when you take them.
0:55.0	What you need to know if you're taking a diuretic is that 40% people who take diuretics end up with hypocalemia, that's low potassium in your blood.
1:07.0	Okay? And then from those people you have an increased risk of eating heart attack by 10 times. So low potassium in the blood
1:16.2	increases your risk for getting a heart attack. Now what's the reason why you're taking a
1:21.0	diabetic in the first place to prevent a heart attack because you have high blood pressure, right?
1:25.9	Well, the side effect is hello, increasing your risk, right? So and also if you're
1:32.3	diabetic, for example, you're for sure going to have even low potassium even more.
1:37.6	And potassium deficiencies in general increase the blood pressure. I think really what happens is you start off having a potassium deficiency and then you end up with high blood pressure and then you're on this which then deplete more potassium and it just goes around and around.
1:55.4	So you may want to consider taking some more potassium if you're on this diuretic.
2:00.4	Now what's really weird is that potassium pills come in 99 milligrams or less.
2:06.6	You can't find them over 99 milligrams unless they're in a powder.
2:12.4	And the requirement for potassium is 4,700 milligrams. And that's pretty strange because
2:20.1	most other minerals and vitamins are not that high.
2:23.5	Like magnesium for example is like 420 or 450 for men and might be 375 for women.
2:31.5	But for potassium, we need 10 times the amount. Why? Because our skeletal
2:38.2	muscle and all of our cells use potassium for energy for all sorts of functions. If you're
2:46.3	deficient in potassium probably the first symptoms that you're going to get
2:49.6	before you get heart arrhythmia problems and heart attack are muscle cramps, tight muscles,
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