Is Potassium Good or Bad For Your Kidneys?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this podcast, Dr. Berg answers the question, is potassium good or bad for your kidneys. It really depends on how well your kidney works, like if you have stage 5 kidney failure or renal failure where you only have 10% of your kidney working, you need to avoid potassium because the kidney doesn’t have the ability to get rid of potassium and other nutrients anymore that could lead to hyperkalemia.

Symptoms of Hyperkalemia

• Nausea

• Weak

• Slow Pulse

• Tingling

• Numbness

One of the complications of being a diabetic is you lose the kidney function but if you are healthy and you have enough potassium is protective for the kidney especially if you’re a diabetic.

Benefits of Potassium

• Protects the kidney

• Help establish normal blood sugars

• Makes insulin work well in the body

• It can lower blood pressure

Functions of Potassium: Nerves / Muscles / Fluid / Energy

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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. So I had another question that came up regarding potassium.
0:47.0	Someone said, I'm concerned about taking potassium because I heard it's dangerous for my kidney so is it
0:55.3	okay to take potassium? Okay. Well it really depends if you have stage 5 kidney failure and stage renal failure, okay, where you have 10% of the kidney working, you want to avoid potassium.
1:11.0	Why? Because you already lost your ability to rid potassium. Why? Because you already lost your ability to rid potassium and other
1:16.4	nutrients as well. So it's going to build up and that can be dangerous to the heart
1:21.5	because your pulse rate goes down you might have neurological
1:24.4	problems like a tingling sensation or even numbness you feel weak nauseated.
1:29.2	But if you're healthy like the great majority of the population,
1:34.0	potassium is protective to the kidney.
1:37.0	It actually can prevent a bad kidney,
1:41.0	especially if you're a diabetic.
1:44.0	One of the complications of being a diabetic
1:46.5	is you lose the kidney function.
1:48.9	If you have enough potassium,
1:51.0	you can hopefully prevent that effect.
1:55.0	So potassium is very, very healthy, especially for the kidney.
2:00.0	And the reason why you would have a kidney problem in the first place.
2:03.1	It usually comes from high levels of sugar and insulin,
2:06.0	which destroys the kidney, the eye, the heart, and the brain.
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