The Potassium-Insulin Connection

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 one 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 one 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 one 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 .