Low Potassium: Symptoms, Signs, Diet, Causes, and Treatment by Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Listen to this podcast to learn about the top low potassium symptoms and how to treat low potassium.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey guys, in this video we're going to talk about low potassium. |
| 0:27.9 | Why? Because potassium is probably the number one deficiency with most people, |
| 0:33.0 | but it's the hardest to detect because when you take a blood test, most of the potassium, |
| 0:37.9 | 98% of your potassium is inside the cell, not outside the cell. So when they do a blood test, |
| 0:44.9 | it's not going to show up unless it's really, really, really extreme. So the type of |
| 0:49.2 | potassium you would have to do would be an intracellular test. It's very sophisticated. People |
| 0:53.8 | don't really ask for it. Doctors probably don't even know about it, but there is a test that you |
| 0:57.8 | can do, but I like to go by symptoms. Here are some of the symptoms of low potassium. By the way, |
| 1:03.2 | this is not vitamin K, but this is a chemical symbol of potassium. It's a K-plus. So when you're |
| 1:09.6 | low potassium, the blood pressure will increase. Why? Because potassium is a physiological |
| 1:15.7 | relaxer. It's a tranquilizer. It calms things down. Muscle cramps because potassium is an electrolyte, |
| 1:23.3 | sugar cravings. Why? Because potassium helps you store sugar. And it will actually help you get |
| 1:30.0 | rid of sugar cravings because the storage of glucose needs potassium. Okay, constipation. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, so that's another symptom of low potassium. And then high insulin. So there's a relationship |
| 1:46.7 | between sugar, blood sugars, diabetes, and potassium. In fact, when you have enough potassium, |
| 1:53.4 | the need for insulin goes down. So I always recommend potassium for diabetic clients. |
| 2:00.6 | Number, this is another one. Muscle weakness. You could have this unexplainable muscle weakness. |
| 2:05.2 | And I know why? Why? Because the electrolytes are needed to help the muscles contract. And that's |
| 2:11.9 | why you have abnormal heartbeat because the heart is a muscle. Same thing with this muscle. Same |
| 2:18.0 | thing with that muscle. So these abnormal heartbeats, for example, like at atrial fibrillation, arrhythmias, |
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