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

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

Dr. Eric Berg.

So, today we're going to talk about why your muscles need most of your potassium.

Now, what's very unique about potassium is that it's one mineral that we need a tremendous amount of.

We need 4700 milligrams.

And out of all the tissues in the body, 80% is needed by your muscles, mainly.

The question is, why do we need so much and why is it going to the muscles?

But before I explain that, I need to explain something called the sodium potassium pump.

Okay? You have billions of these little pumps.

And what they do is they keep potassium on the ends of the cell and they keep sodium outside the cell.

So, that's their main purpose.

And the reason for that is any time you have two different minerals that are held apart like that.

By a pump and by a membrane, the cell wall, you create a battery, which is this.

You have positive, negative, held apart.

That flow of electrons, that current, generates a certain amount of energy that is stored in the battery.

Well, your cells are mini batteries.

In fact, your brain has about 80 billion mini battery cells.

Potassium is needed as a raw material to make sure this pump works.

In fact, 30% of all the energy that you have in your body is allocated to this one little pump.

And because this pump allows two potassium in and three sodium out,

and that difference creates a voltage.

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