Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

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

healthy weight.

Now we're going to talk about five electrolytes.

There are others like phosphorus and by carbonates.

These tend to buffer the pH if things are too acid or too alkaline, but I'm going to

focus on these five right here.

The serosodium.

Sodium is a mineral that helps hydrate things because it's water is attracted to it.

And of course if you have tumor sodium you're going to retain fluid.

But if you don't have enough sodium, you're not going to hydrate the cells as well.

Also sodium is involved in oxygen transport.

So if you're getting swelling in the red blood cells for example, you're not going

to be able to carry oxygen to the body and you're going to actually kind of run out

of air.

So you could have all sorts of problems with endurance for example if you're low in sodium.

Let's say you do this huge workout and you're sweating and you lose your sodium, you're

going to be very very tired and you're not going to be able to like walk up the stairs

because you're going to run out of oxygen.

Sodium also works with chloride as in salt for various things.

But sodium also works with other minerals like potassium.

There's a pump called the sodium potassium pump and the purpose of that pump is to generate

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