Hey guys, I want to talk about the relationship between your glycogen stores and your electrolytes

when you're doing the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting.

Let's start off with what is glycogen?

Glycogen is a series of glucose molecules hooked together linked together as a group.

It's stored carbohydrate.

It's similar to a starch where there's a bunch of sugar molecules stuck together.

Same thing with your body.

You have this stored in your liver and your muscles, just a stored form of sugar.

In order to store this, you need potassium too.

We'll come back to that in a second.

When you're actually doing higher carbohydrates, you have a higher amount of the glycogen

reserve.

Some people that have more muscle mass, that work out, that do higher carbohydrates, hold

even more.

Anyway, when you have more glycogen, you're going to hold more water.

You can kind of look at it like a sponge.

Then when you do the keto, low carb, and intermittent fasting, you drop insulin.

This goes away.

This shrinks down considerably, not 100%, but it goes way down.

Guess what?

There goes the water and also there goes some of the electrolytes.

This is where you may have symptoms in transitioning from sugar burning to fat burning.

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