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.

Alright guys, I'm back and today we're going to answer the question, what do electrolytes

do?

Now electrolytes are electrically charged minerals that allow things to move in the body,

they allow the muscles to contract and relax, they allow the nervous system to communicate

and they have many, many functions.

If you can recall back to chemistry where you saw that little plus or minus sign on the

right upper corner of an element like calcium is a plus two, chloride is a negative one,

potassium is a plus one, sodium is a negative one.

Those are basically charged minerals that have various functions.

Alright, let's start with sodium.

Sodium is considered this bad mineral but it's actually not, it has a purpose, it helps

you maintain fluid volume outside the cell within your blood.

Most of the sodium is not inside the cell, it's outside the cell so the sodium helps

hold fluid in the body.

This is one reason why if you drink way too much water without sodium you're going to

dilute sodium and you're going to create a condition called hyponatremia, it's very,

very dangerous.

So sodium has a very, very important role in many different functions and sodium excites

nerves in muscles.

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