Need More Carbs to Boost Energy?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
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Today, we’re going to talk about carbs and energy. Many people think they need carbs for energy, but they don’t.
When you eat carbs, you lose potassium. Low potassium can cause symptoms such as:
• Fatigue
• Weakness
• Paralysis
• Leg cramps
• Abnormal heart rhythm
• High blood pressure
• Tremors
There is something called insulin-induced hypokalemia. Hypokalemia is low potassium. When you stimulate insulin because your carbs are high, you block an enzyme, which is a pump. You have millions of these in all of your cells.
This pump basically keeps the potassium inside of the cell and the sodium outside of the cell to form an electrical gradient so it can act as a battery. 30% of all of the energy in the body is allocated to this pump. If you inhibit this pump, more potassium stays outside of the cell, and you start losing potassium.
There are more causes of a potassium deficiency such as:
• A spike in insulin
• Not consuming enough potassium foods
• Loss of fluid
• Steroids
• Alkalosis
• Diuretics
• A decrease in magnesium
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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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 losing healthy weight. Man, I just need more carbs to boost my energy. Really? Have you ever heard that before? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, it's actually just the opposite and I'm going to explain why. So I'm going to explain this in two different |
| 0:54.4 | ways, the simple version and the technical version for those people that want to know about it. |
| 0:58.9 | When you eat carbs, you lose potassium. And when you lose potassium and when you lose potassium you get tired, weak. |
| 1:07.0 | Potentially you can have paralysis if there's a huge potassium loss, leg cramps, abnormal heart rhythm, even the |
| 1:16.0 | palpitation could be a one symptom, high blood pressure and tremor. |
| 1:21.0 | So that's a simple version, let me explain a little bit more technical. |
| 1:24.0 | There's something called insulin-induced hypocalemia. |
| 1:28.0 | Hypocalemia is low potassium. |
| 1:30.0 | When you stimulate insulin because the carbs are high you block this enzyme |
| 1:37.1 | okay this enzyme is a pump and you have millions of them in all of your cells. |
| 1:43.0 | And this pump basically keeps the potassium inside the cell |
| 1:48.0 | and the sodium outside the cell to form an electrical gradient so it can act as a battery. |
| 1:55.0 | And you need the battery to keep the muscles relaxing and contracting, |
| 1:59.0 | as well as to keep the messages flowing, |
| 2:01.0 | as well as to keep the electrical signals through the |
| 2:03.9 | nervous system activated. What's interesting is 30% of all the energy that you have |
| 2:09.8 | in your body is allocated to this specific pump. So if you inhibit this pump, more |
| 2:16.2 | potassium stays outside the cell and you start losing potassium. Okay? |
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