Welcome to the Doctor Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Berg.

Now, we talked a lot about the importance of magnesium.

But today we're going to talk about when not to take magnesium.

The danger of taking too much magnesium is when the body cannot get rid of it.

Normally, we have a mechanism in our kidneys that can easily get rid of excess amounts of magnesium.

But there's certain conditions where we can't.

There's also certain laxatives that you can get that are magnesium-based,

which will give you like 5,000 milligrams of magnesium per day.

And our bodies really only need less than one tenth of that.

So if we're taking that much and there's certain organ problems that prevent the elimination

of magnesium, then you could be in trouble.

Here are just a few symptoms of what could occur if you have too much magnesium,

diarrhea, nausea, abdominal cramping, low blood pressure, depression, lethargy,

difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, and cardiac arrest.

Now, let's talk about four situations in which you would not want to take a lot of potassium.

You can take up to 200 milligrams and you wouldn't necessarily have to worry about it from your food,

but you wouldn't want to be taking large amounts.

Number one, and the big one is kidney disease.

If you have chronic kidney disease, that's going to really inhibit your ability to get rid of the excess.

Now, if you're diabetic and you have something called diabetic nephropathy,

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