hi guys dr. Berg here in this video I want to talk about the importance of potassium with preserving muscle mass and reducing body fat okay here is the facts every gram of protein needs 2.6 million tons of potassium that means without enough potassium you can't hold protein or amino acids in your body and that's one of the reasons why people get atrophy especially being a diabetic diabetics have insulin resistance and when you have insulin resistance you cannot absorb the calcium very much anymore so there bar there goes your muscle protein it goes in amino acids so potassium is a very important mineral in preserving the muscle mass and the density and preventing atrophy but also each glucose molecule needs one potassium ion now we've been talking about in other videos about reducing glucose but we do need some storage of glucose in a form called glycogen to help you click energy between meals and things like that but you're not going to get it from eating sugar you're going to get it just from eating any foods your body will convert enough glycogen to storage if you need it and a certain portion of the brain runs on glucose despite how many ketones you use and but your body's making it the liver is making it but you need potassium to store this sugar as glycogen glycogen is stored sugar if you don't have enough potassium guess what you're not going to store the sugar and guess what you're going to store more body fat so potassium actually helps people lose weight and it preserves your muscle alright I just wanted to bring up this point and the other point is that you need a lot of potassium you probably already know this but you need about 4700 and that's not even the stressed out body if you have your stress and you have rheumatoid arthritis you have a lot of other body problems and you're diabetic you probably need 5 to 6,000 milligrams so try to get it from vegetables you can enhance it from potassium citrate and other minerals but you need about 7 to 10 cups of vegetables to get at least 4,000 milligrams of potassium every single day alright go ahead and do that and put your calm below you I just wanted to take a moment out to thank you for your amazing feedback that you guys are giving me it's just mind-blowing the successes the winds I created a link down below so you can actually type out your full success story and if you have it before and after with weight loss that would be awesome and if you don't have a success with weight but other things just put an image of yourself and your personal success story and I would love to read it and also share it with others so I want to just thank you in advance for doing that but there's a link down below fill it out I can't wait to read it
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