you know i actually had pitting edema in my lower legs in my late 20s so i'm a lot older now and i don't

have it so i'm going to share with you some of the things that i did as well as some other causes

common causes rare causes and what to do with each one so specifically i want to talk about

edema in the lower legs and the feet.

So a lot of people have it.

A lot of people take medication, but they don't actually at the same time correct the underlying cause.

So cause number one is sugar and a high carb diet, and as that relates also to a spike in insulin.

Okay, so it's kind of a double-edged sword. When you consume excess amounts of sugar,

what happens your body has to store the sugar as glycogen. Okay, what is glycogen? Glycogen is a series of glucose molecules

stuck together with potassium. Okay, so they're going to basically, when you consume sugar,

you're going to, it's going to use up potassium to store this glycogen and water. So with every

glucose that you're going to store, okay, you're going to store okay you're going to store three

water molecules okay so you're going to store a lot more water compared to glucose

when you consume glucose you know slash sugar so this is all retained fluid this is

why when someone goes on a low-carb diet, they just dump a lot of water.

Like real quick, within the first week, it could be anywhere between 7 to 13 pounds of water weight.

So eating sugar and refined carbs causes water retention from glycrogen.

It also causes a potassium deficiency when you consume sugar too.

And when you lower your potassium, okay, ratio to

sodium, we have this retention of fluid. So in other words, we all know that sodium retains

fluid. Well, potassium is the antidote to that. So the less potassium we have available because it's all

locked up within this glycogen, then you're going to actually cause retention of fluid just because of

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