Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know recently I was sitting down on a table and I was looking over and I noticed

someone's right ankle was completely swollen. The foot was swollen, the lower leg was swollen,

but the left foot wasn't swollen and I was very, very tempted to go up to her and start

asking questions. Because typically what happens when you're right ankle or foot is swollen,

you have a dima. That's usually a liver problem, cirrhosis of the liver. And I looked

down and to see if there was a protruded belly, I call the cites, and there wasn't that.

It was definitely a belly, but it wasn't protruded. Now that's not the only way to diagnose

a liver, but it was just one indication if there was advanced liver problems. But sometimes

they get into trouble because I tend to want to evaluate the person and figure things

out when they might not want to be evaluated. But based on where someone is holding fluid,

a dima wise, you can tell a lot about what's going on in the body. So if the right ankle

and foot is more swollen, think liver. If the left foot and ankle is swollen, think

more heart. If both of the ankles and feet are swollen, think more of a blood sugar situation

like diabetes. Now, there's many other reasons why you might have a dima. It could be you

have something called chronic venous insufficiency, or you have lymphedema, or you have a kidney

problem, or even you have an advanced lung problem. But the most common reasons for a dima

in your ankles is going to be usually in the area of blood sugar issues like diabetes

or prediabetes, or you're just low in potassium, and you're very high in sodium. I remember

in practice, I would just simply have people either juice some greens or take some potassium,

and all this fluid would just come right out the next day. So potassium is very, very important.

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