Understanding Restless Legs Syndrome and Causes – Dr.Berg

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hi guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about restless legs syndrome I had this condition in my 20s it drove me crazy I would get  up in the middle of night and pound my legs to go run around the block to try to get this energy  out little did I know it’s actually very easy to fix there’s two prime primary causes to this  number one there’s a condition called lactic acidosis that you may have and that is just a  buildup of lactic acid that deprives the muscle of oxygen and there’s a lot of restless quivering  and shaking and a feeling of electricity in your legs and other muscles as well so if this is the  case you just simply need vitamin b1 but I like to get it from nutritional use because most to be one  that you buy is synthetic the synthetic will still work but you don’t want to take it short long term  just may be short term but this is a b1 deficiency and it works like within a day okay so this is  the more likely cause and this is an electrolyte imbalance with a potassium deficiency okay now  you need a lot of potassium every day you need like 4700 milligrams one banana is 300 milligrams  you need 4700 now how many times is 300 go into 4700 a lot was it 14 to 15 times so bananas aren’t  going to cut it so the reason why you’re deficient in potassium there’s three reasons one is you’re  not consuming enough vegetable okay if you did you get 2 potassium number 2 maybe your stomach is  not strong enough as far as the acid if you’re in the anti acid medication well then you don’t  have the correct pH to pull them that potassium because what causes acid reflux is a lack of acid  so you want to take apple cider vinegar or an acid or betaine hydrochloride to be able to absorb  and get rid of the acid reflux so you can absorb minerals in general so that’s just a side note of  a lot of people that have this problem don’t even know it’s connected to lack of absorption okay  so we have lack of dietary potassium number two we have the stomach’s not absorbing because  it’s not acid enough number three you have a blood sugar issue could be hypoglycemia could be  insulin resistance it could be diabetes all three conditions you have a state where the insulin  is not working and it’s not insulin controls potassium absorption so if you don’t have the  facility to even absorb potassium itself you can get restless leg syndrome so I put a link down  below just to if you have blood sugar issues you crave sweets or you’re tired after you eat or  you could load it after you eat or you’re not fast enough to you eat or you crave whatever carbs  then you need to watch that video okay so you can fix that but taking potassium will correct this  so you want to increase the vegetable but as an immediate thing you can do is go to the health  food store go to Amazon and order some potassium now the problem most people do is when they order  this they don’t realize that you can really only order this in 99 milligrams so you need  4700 milligrams so you don’t have like 100 like a lot of pills every single day right that’s not  going to be workable so get the powder and get potassium citrate okay and then what you can do  is dissolve it and do like maybe 700 milligrams in some solution that’s I mean and then do  another 700 like maybe a couple hours later another 700 look so spread it out slowly through  the day do this for two days watch your legs it’ll just like feel so much better okay and then post  your comments below so I hope that helped but it’s totally an unnecessary condition you don’t have to  take drugs and thank you for so much for watching