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Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

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

and your electrolytes when you're doing the ketogenic diet and in a minute fasting. Let's start off

with what is glycogen? Glycogen is a series of glucose molecules hooked together, linked together

as a group, okay? It's stored carbohydrate. It's kind of like a

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.

Okay. In order to store this, you need potassium too. So that's stored in your liver and your muscles, just a stored form of sugar, okay?

In order to store this, you need potassium too.

So that's, we'll come back to that in a second.

Now, when you're actually doing higher carbohydrates,

you have a higher amount of the glycogen reserve.

Now, 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, okay? And then when you do the keto, okay, low carb, and then in the fasting,

you drop insulin, this goes away. goes away i mean this this shrinks down

considerably not 100 but it goes way down so guess what there goes the water and also there goes

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