Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

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Doctor Eric Burg.

Someone had a question about what you do if you have an arrhythmia after you break a fast with a meal.

So let's talk about that.

So an arrhythmia is an abnormal heartbeat.

It could be a palpitation, it could be a skip beat.

Of course, what I'm going to tell you is my opinion and check with your doctor before taking any of my advice.

But this symptom could occur, especially if you're not doing keto, but you're just doing fasting.

So let's say you're doing a long fast over 48 hours and you do this big carbohydrate meal.

You may notice some body problems simply because you're going to spike insulin.

And insulin moves the electrolytes from the blood inside the cell.

So we get a shift of all these electrolytes, potassium, magnesium, sodium, chloride, and phosphorus.

And when we have the shift, we end up with a deficiency in the blood of these electrolytes.

And you can have heart issues, you can feel dizzy, especially if when you're doing the fast,

taking any electrolytes. These electrolytes aren't usually stored in the body very well.

Except for sodium tends to be stored, but not potassium, magnesium, and these other electrolytes.

So here you are doing this long fast and you're kind of deficient in the electrolytes.

And as soon as you take a high carb meal, it can create this shift of even a greater deficiency in electrolytes.

And that's when you start noticing problems.

There's a medical term for a longer version of this where you're basically starving or you're not eating for a long period of time.

And then you eat too fast. And it's called the refeeding syndrome.

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