Potassium, Muscle Strength and Exercise Endurance

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this podcast, we are going to talk about potassium and how it affects your muscle strength and exercise endurance.

The first thing you need to know is that you have tiny pumps on the membranes of your cells, which are called sodium-potassium pumps. They are small protein molecules that have enzyme activity. You have billions of these, and they work 24/7.

30% of your body’s energy is allocated to these tiny pumps. So what do they do exactly? All they do is push out sodium and push in potassium. Essentially, what this does is it turns your cells into little batteries to allow the muscles to do their work.

Now, if your sodium-potassium pumps aren’t working, you’re going to feel it—you may experience weakness and a lack of endurance.

There are several things that can cause a problem with these pumps:

• Low potassium diets

• Inactivity

• Insulin resistance/diabetes

• Slow thyroid

• Low magnesium

• Diuretics

• Too much caffeine

• Cortisol (too much stress)

Start by boosting your potassium and see if your energy levels increase.

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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. Hey guys, I'm back and I've been doing a lot of research on potassium so I wanted to create this video.
0:49.1	It's actually quite interesting.
0:50.6	This topic relates to how potassium affects your muscle strength and your exercise endurance.
0:56.5	Okay? I want to give you a little background, but I'm going to make it as simple as possible.
1:01.6	You have these little tiny pumps on your cells on the membrane of the
1:05.8	cells you have billions of them they're called the sodium potassium pump
1:10.0	they're a little tiny protein molecule that have enzyme activity and you have billions of them and they work 24-7.
1:19.0	And the name of the entire structure is sodium potassium ATP ACE.
1:23.7	The ACE is an enzyme and the ACE basically splits up this energy currency of the ATP,
1:30.4	so it can have energy to do its job.
1:33.0	30% of all of your energy in your body
1:36.2	is allocated to these tiny pumps.
1:40.2	Now what do they do?
1:41.9	All they do is they push out sodium and pushing in potassium.
1:48.6	So they push out 24,000 sodium ions, and they push in 16,000 potassium ions.
2:00.0	Now, if you do the math, there's a difference of 8,000.
2:04.8	So that difference is very, very important because that difference makes the inside of
2:09.3	the cell more negative than the outside and it creates a little voltage.
2:14.0	So basically this pump turns a cell into a battery
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