The Potassium-Insulin Connection
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
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Today we're going to talk about the relationship between potassium and insulin. If you're a diabetic or you have insulin resistance, this podcast is for you.
Insulin is a hormone that causes you to store fat. In the presence of insulin, it's almost impossible to burn fat and lose weight because insulin prevents fat burning. With insulin, you store sugar as fat, and it prevents the break down of fat. Insulin also stores glucose and turns glucose into glycogen.
Glycogen is a string of glucose molecules held together as stored sugar. Potassium is also involved. Potassium is necessary in the storage of glycogen.
The main purpose of insulin is to lower your blood sugar. It does that by taking the sugar and putting it in storage as glycogen or as fat.
Insulin also helps put potassium in your cells. When you consume a high-carb diet, you deplete potassium from the inside of the cell—you lose potassium.
Taking potassium makes insulin less resistive. Potassium may be very beneficial if you have insulin resistance. If you're a diabetic, you have insulin resistance.
If you're deficient in potassium, that situation will impair glucose and even increase the risk of insulin resistance.
It is very important to get enough potassium—especially if you have a blood sugar issue.
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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 potassium and insulin. It's very interesting, especially if you are a diabetic or have insulin resistance. |
| 0:54.0 | So insulin is a hormone that causes you to store fat. |
| 0:57.7 | In the presence of insulin, |
| 0:59.5 | it's almost impossible to burn fat and lose weight because insulin prevents the fat burning. |
| 1:05.8 | So it's all about storing sugar as fat and it's preventing the oxidation or breakdown of fat. |
| 1:14.0 | Incin also stores glucose. |
| 1:16.9 | So let's say for example, he ate some sugar |
| 1:18.6 | or some refined carbs. |
| 1:20.2 | Now the body is going to store that as stored sugar. |
| 1:25.0 | Insulin turns glucose into glycogen. |
| 1:28.0 | So this is what glycogen looks like. |
| 1:30.0 | It's a string of glucose molecules held together as stored sugar and you also have potassium involved as well. |
| 1:39.0 | So potassium is necessary in the storage of glycogen. |
| 1:44.0 | So the main purpose of insulin is to lower your blood sugar. |
| 1:48.0 | And it does that through taking the sugar |
| 1:51.0 | and putting into storage as glycogen. the to lower your blood sugar. The question is, so where is it going? It's being hidden as fat. |
| 2:05.2 | It's not evaporating. So basically these medications are taking out of the blood and putting it somewhere else. |
| 2:12.0 | Now, insulin also helps put the potassium in your cells. |
| 2:16.0 | So that's one of the purposes. |
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