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Today I wanna talk about the relationship between potassium and insulin .
It's very interesting especially if you are a diabetic or have insulin resistance .
So insulin is a hormone that causes you to store fat .
In the presence of insulin , it's almost impossible to burn fat and lose weight because insulin prevents the fat burning .
So it's all about storing , sugar as fat and it's preventing the oxidation or breakdown of fat .
Insulin also stores glucose .
So let's say for example you ate some sugar or some refined carbs , now the the body is going to store that as stored sugar .
Insulin turns glucose into glycogen .
So this is what glycogen looks like .
It's a string of glucose molecules held together as stored sugar , and you also have potassium involved as well .
So potassium is necessary in the storage of glycogen .
So the main purpose of insulin is to lower your blood sugar , and it does that through taking the sugar and putting into storage as glycogen or as fat .
And if you're diabetic and you take medication to lower your blood sugar , the question is , so where is it going ?
It's being hidden as fat .
It's not evaporating .
So basically these medications are taking out of the blood , and putting it somewhere else .
Now insulin also helps put potassium in your cells .
So that's 1 of the purposes .
When you consume a high glucose diet or a high carb diet , you deplete potassium from the inside of the cell .
So you lose potassium .
So if you consume a lot of carbohydrates at 1 time , you're gonna show potassium deficiency symptoms like your pulse rate will start going up .
You'll have a hard time sleeping .
Your blood pressure might go up .
You may feel , palpitations in your heart or heart arrhythmia type symptoms .
Taking potassium makes insulin less resistive as well .
So it's really good to improve insulin resistance .
And if you're diabetic , you have insulin resistance .
And this is why all diabetics should be making sure they get enough potassium and more to help their blood sugars and improve , the normalization of insulin .
If you're deficient in potassium , that's gonna impair glucose and even increase the risk for insulin resistance just by having a deficiency of potassium .
And then you're being put on a medication like a diuretic which then can deplete potassium and cause more high blood pressure .
And also if you have insulin resistance and you're diabetic , you take metformin and 1 of the problems with metformin , it depletes potassium .
So my point about this video is if you're a diabetic , make sure you have enough potassium .
And I created a very important video on diabetes a long time ago , and I put it on this page right here .
Check it out .