Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg here.

Now, I want to do a video on the most important electrolyte.

Now, let me explain what electrolyte is.

If you ever take salt and put it in water and dissolve it, it disassociates.

The sodium and chloride disconnect, they become two separate minerals,

okay? And that fluid is very electrically conductive. So basically, electrolytes have to do with

minerals that help conduct electricity in the body. So they help with a lot of different things.

And so as far as electrolytes, it would be like potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium,

chlorides, all those minerals.

Now, potassium out of all of the electrolytes is the one that we need in very large quantities.

And I was curious, why is that?

Why do we need potassium in such large amounts?

I'm talking 4,700 milligrams to 6,000 milligrams every single day.

That's equivalent to 7 to 10 plus cups of salad or vegetable every single day.

That's a lot. That's odd to me. And no one consumes that much. But let's go dig further on

exactly why we need potassium. There's something in the body called the sodium potassium pump, okay?

And it's built in a little protein connected to an enzyme, it forms a whole enzyme, on the

surface of your cells. And you have between 800,000 to 30 million of these little tiny pumps and they're little

generators that generate electricity to allow things to go through the cell so they take a lot of

energy to to work in fact one third of all the food that you eat, the energy of one-third of your diet goes

to running those pumps. You also have another pump in the stomach called the hydrogen, potassium,

ATP, don't worry about the name, but it's basically another pump that's billed with

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