Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. I found some very interesting research related to how potassium can influence how much calcium builds up in your arteries.

It's actually quite fascinating.

Now, one of the best tests to determine if you have calcium in your arteries is a CAC test, a coronary artery

calcification test. And that test is probably one of the best predictors of overall mortality,

not just from heart attacks, but from overall mortality. So this study that I just reviewed

showed for the first time that low dietary potassium

promotes vascular calcification and aortic stiffness as well as thickness within the coronary arteries.

Now, I will say this study was on mice, so if your mice start developing high blood pressure,

you definitely need to apply this information.

Now this is huge because so many people do not get the amount of potassium they need.

In fact, they don't even know how much they need.

They need a lot.

An average person needs about 4,700 milligrams every single day.

So to get that, they're going to have to

consume a good amount of dietary potassium. If you don't know what that is, I put a link down below

for more information on how to get your potassium from your diet. But the question is why,

why does calcium deposit on your arteries if you are low in potassium? And this is the reason. These two electrolytes, potassium and

calcium, work together. When you're low in potassium, calcium tends to build up on the inside of the

cell. Now, this is quite important information simply because the number one cause of death is heart

attack. And so if a person is getting high blood

pressure, they need to start looking at potassium. If you take a look at like calcium channel

blockers, which is one of the medications that they use for high blood pressure, the mechanics of that

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