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Hey guys, Dr. Burg 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 just associates the sodium

and chloride disconnect and they become two separate minerals.

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, okay.

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

And I always curious, why is that?

Why do we need potassium in such a large amounts?

I'm talking 47 hundred 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 and exactly why we need potassium.

There's something in the body called the sodium potassium pump, okay.

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