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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. Hey guys in this video we're going to talk about low potassium. Why? Because

potassium is probably the number one deficiency with most people, but it's the hardest to detect because when you take a blood test, most of the potassium, 98% of your potassium is inside the cell, not outside the cell.

So when they do a blood test, it's not going to show up

unless it's really, really extreme.

So the type of test that you would have to do

would be an intracellular test.

It's very sophisticated. People don't really ask for it.

Doctors probably don't even know about it, but there is a test that you can do.

But I like to go by symptoms.

Here are some of the symptoms of low potassium.

And by the way, this is not Vitamin K, but this is a chemical symbol of potassium. It's a K-plus.

So when you're low potassium the blood pressure will increase why because

potassium is a physiological relaxer it's a tranquilizer it calms things down

muscle cramps because potassium is an electrolyte, sugar cravings. Why?

Because potassium helps you store sugar and it will actually help you get rid of sugar cravings because the storage of glucose needs

potassium.

Okay, constipation.

Yeah, so that's another symptom of low potassium. And then high insulin. So there's a relationship between sugar, blood sugars, diabetes, and potassium.

In fact, when you have enough potassium,

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