When Should You Not Take Extra Potassium?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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There are certain situations where you should actually avoid potassium. Check this out. For more info on health-related topics, go here: http://bit.ly/2MwqbgI

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about when NOT to consume potassium. Typically people are deficient in potassium, and they need more potassium. It’s actually rare that you would need to avoid potassium. What we’re talking about is hyperkalemia, which is too much potassium in the blood. How to know what’s going on with your potassium: Take an intracellular potassium test.

Symptoms of hyperkalemia:

• Palpitations

• Muscle weakness

• Numbness

• Abnormal heart rate

• Shortness of breath

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	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. Hi guys, today we're going to talk about potassium and when you should not take
0:48.6	extra potassium. The typical situation is that people are deficient potassium and they need more potassium.
0:56.0	And it's actually a rare condition where you would need to cut back.
1:00.0	Okay, now when I'm talking about excess potassium, you have this condition called hypercalemia.
1:06.0	This is too much potassium in your blood.
1:08.8	98% of all the potassium is inside the cell versus the outside the cell. In order to really
1:14.9	know what's happening with potassium I would recommend taking an
1:18.7	intracellular potassium test and you can look it up online to try to find out where you could take it. I think it'd be a very valuable thing, but that would measure how much potassium is inside the cell.
1:30.0	That being said, some of the symptoms with hypercalemia would be palpitations, muscle weakness, numbness,
1:37.0	abnormal heart rate, and shortness of breath.
1:40.6	And these are the identical symptoms by the way when you have hypo-calemia which is
1:48.8	interesting so you can't really know what's happening based on the symptom you could take a blood
1:54.3	test however these are the top three conditions where you would not want to
1:59.3	take potassium and I'm going to tell you why. First one is stage five kidney disease.
2:04.5	That would be end stage renal failure.
2:06.7	renal meaning kidney.
2:08.4	So if the kidneys are really diseased,
2:10.4	you would not want to take potassium. However, this is rare and potassium normally protects the
2:18.0	kidney, okay? It helps the kidney, especially with blood pressure.
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