The Ketogenic Diet and Electrolytes
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the importance of keto electrolytes. It’s the lack of keto electrolytes that’s responsible for:
• Keto flu • Constipation • Keto fatigue • Cramping • Heart flutters
Why you need electrolytes on keto:
1. Lowering your carbs lowers fluids (including electrolytes)
2. To improve insulin resistance
3. For the mitochondria—requires more electrolytes on keto
The electrolytes you need: • Potassium • Magnesium • Calcium • Sodium • Phosphorus • Chloride
* Potassium is needed in the body in large quantities, but your body doesn’t retain it very well.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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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. So I want to talk about the importance of electrolytes on a ketogenic diet. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm not sure if you know this or not, but it's really the lack of electrolytes that are responsible for the |
| 0:54.3 | keto flu, constipation when you do keto, keto fatigue, cramping, and heart flutter or a palpitation or even symptoms of heart |
| 1:05.4 | arrhythmia. Let's go through a few reasons why this might be. Well the |
| 1:09.6 | first reason is this. When you run your body on glucose, 2.7 grams of water is needed for 1 gram of glucose. |
| 1:18.6 | So when you're storing glucose as glycogen, you're holding like three times amount of water. |
| 1:24.5 | So glycogen or store glucose is really a fluid filled sponge. |
| 1:30.0 | So when you lower your carbs and you get rid of the fluid, you're going to then get rid of the total volume of fluid and the electrolytes at the same time, because that's where the electrolytes are stored in the fluid. |
| 1:43.6 | And guess what? |
| 1:44.8 | You may experience dizziness, weakness, tiredness, lightheadedness, |
| 1:50.5 | and even cramps when you don't have enough electrolytes. |
| 1:53.5 | So electrolytes would be like potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, phosphorus, chloride. |
| 2:01.5 | These minerals, like magnesium, calcium, sodium, phosphorus are fairly stable for the most part. |
| 2:08.0 | In other words, your body can pull them from the bone, from the muscles very easily. |
| 2:13.7 | But potassium does not have a storage. |
| 2:16.7 | So potassium is a mineral that is needed in large quantities, |
| 2:19.8 | yet your body does not retain it that well but it definitely retains sodium |
| 2:24.1 | an average person is holding or retaining 8,000 milligrams of extra sodium so when |
| 2:30.6 | you're doing a fast your body does become more conservative with minerals and vitamins, |
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