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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Feet & Keto Leg Cramps at Night on Ketogenic Diet?: Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

While on the ketogenic diet, you may get leg and foot cramps at night. I explain why, and how you can remedy the cramps.


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0:00.0

So today we're going to talk about what's behind leg and feet cramps at night when

0:28.1

you're doing keto.

0:29.1

It's called nocturnal leg cramps.

0:31.5

So if you try to look this up, you're not going to really find very much.

0:34.0

In fact, I don't really know what causes it.

0:36.0

I'm just going to give you my two cents on this because we've gotten some really good

0:38.9

results dealing with leg cramps when you're doing keto.

0:43.3

This is really an electrolyte problem.

0:45.6

Electrolites are electrically charged minerals that help the conductivity of certain things

0:50.4

in the body, specifically muscles and nerves.

0:53.7

And they help push fluid in and out of the cells.

0:57.1

So we're talking about potassium, magnesium, calcium, things like that.

1:01.4

So the two most common minerals involved with cramps are potassium and magnesium.

1:08.8

The symptoms of a potassium deficiency are very similar to a deficiency in magnesium.

1:15.5

Magnesium, by the way, is a co-factor.

1:17.9

It's a helper mineral in over 300 enzymes.

1:22.4

So it's involved in anything nerve and muscular, including heart.

1:27.6

It generates ATP, which is the energy of the cell.

1:30.8

And so if you're deficient, you're going to get tired.

1:33.0

You're going to have muscle weakness, tremors.

1:36.3

It could be like little resting tremors, arrhythmias, which is an abnormal rhythm of the

1:41.2

heart and hypocholemia, which is basically low potassium.

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