What Exactly Do Electrolytes Do?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about electrolytes and the different electrolyte functions.
What are electrolytes?
Electrolytes are electrically charged minerals that have various functions in the body. They allow the muscles to contract and relax; they allow the nervous system to communicate, and much more.
So, what do electrolytes do? Let’s go over a few different electrolytes and their functions.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | 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. All right, guys, I'm back, and today we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:47.1 | what do electrolytes do? Now, electrolytes are electrically charged minerals that allow things |
| 0:54.1 | to move in the body. They allow the |
| 0:56.3 | muscles to contract and relax. They allow the nervous system to communicate. And they have many, many |
| 1:01.8 | functions. If you can recall back to chemistry where you saw that little plus or minus sign on |
| 1:07.5 | the right upper corner of an element like calcium is a plus two, chloride is a negative |
| 1:12.9 | one, potassium is a plus one, sodium is a negative one. Electrolites are basically charged |
| 1:18.8 | minerals that have various functions. All right, let's start with sodium. Sodium is considered |
| 1:23.7 | this bad mineral, but it's actually not. It has a purpose. It helps you maintain fluid |
| 1:29.5 | volume outside the cell within your blood. Most of the sodium is not inside the cell, it's outside |
| 1:35.7 | the cell. So the sodium helps hold fluid in the body. And this is one reason why if you drink |
| 1:42.8 | way too much water without sodium, you're going to dilute sodium, |
| 1:46.9 | and you're going to create a condition called hyponetremia. It's very, very dangerous. So sodium has a very, |
| 1:52.1 | very important role in many different functions. And sodium excites nerves and muscles. So if you're |
| 1:58.5 | deficient in sodium, you're going to find you're going to have |
| 2:01.3 | weakness within your muscles. You might have issues with the nervous system as well. Insulin sensitivity. |
| 2:07.8 | So sodium helps insulin work better and it can improve insulin resistance, which is probably one of |
| 2:13.7 | the biggest root causes to the majority of health problems. Okay, next one. This is interesting. |
| 2:18.9 | It protects your heart. Now, you would think that sodium worsens the heart, but if you're |
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