In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about why blacks have a higher risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. Our bodies require 1000mg of sodium and 4,700mg of potassium every day. Taking diuretic for high blood pressure could deplete potassium. Serum potassium is an independent risk factor for diabetes.

Functions of Potassium

• Helps store glycogen

• Lowers cravings/sugar

• Potassium Deficiency Worsens Insulin Resistance – increases insulin

• Low Potassium causes stiff arteries – increases high blood pressure

• Potassium protects kidney

• Potassium decreases the risk of gout

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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 today we're going to talk about why blocks have a higher risk of diabetes and high
0:49.0	blood pressure. There's a great article I'm going to put it down below by John Hopkins that talks about having low potassium and then increasing your risk for diabetes and then having higher amounts of potassium in decreasing your risk for diabetes.
1:04.0	But there's this huge focus on reducing sodium, right?
1:09.0	Like cut your salt down if you have high blood pressure, for example. But what about increasing your
1:14.3	potassium? That's completely ignored. Our bodies actually require a thousand
1:20.9	milligrams of sodium every single day. That's almost one teaspoon,
1:27.1	level teaspoon of salt will give you a thousand milligrams of sodium. But when we talk
1:32.4	about potassium it's more than four times. We need
1:36.4	4,700 milligrams of potassium, but we only need a thousand milligrams of sodium. Okay, so the ratios are basically
1:46.6	four to one and very few people have this correct ratio and those people with
1:51.9	diabetes and high blood pressure they're
1:54.7	lucky if they have half the amount of potassium but they do have a lot of
1:58.8	sodium too hidden sodium from junk foods,
2:03.0	monosodium, glutamate, things like that.
2:06.4	Not to mention, if you have high blood pressure,
2:08.9	you're usually taking a diuretic, right?
2:11.4	Thioside.
2:12.4	Well, guess what? That alone will deplete your potassium.
2:16.8	High-carbon diets deplete your potassium.
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