Why Your Muscles Need Most of Your Potassium

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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 eighty percent is needed by your muscles mainly 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 inside of the cell and they keep sodium outside the cell so that’s their main purpose and the reason for that is anytime 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 if we’re talking about the muscle we’re talking about 90 millivolts in a nerve it’s about 70 millivolts in the skin it’s about 50 millivolts the voltage is just the power of this battery created by the difference between these two minerals held apart and another term for that is called membrane potential because when it’s at rest it’s like a battery but then it gets activated and it starts releasing this electrical charge that then causes the muscle to contract and it creates nerve impulses and it causes glands to secrete like hormones or even like sweat glands the same principle happens in the thunderstorm where you have these clouds that have a positive charge and the earth is negative and when those clouds start building up moisture at a certain humidity you start generating a tremendous amount of electrostatic energy and when that electrical field gets to a certain point it will discharge the energy as a thunderbolt giving off 3 million volts per meter so that’s a tremendous amount of energy that is discharged the same thing in the cell you have the cell wall on the outside you have positive the inside you have negative and you have a very very thin membrane okay it’s like five nanometers of course this is a very large distance right here this is very very tiny but the cell wall or membrane is two layers of lipids or fats that keep these two minerals apart and once the muscle is activated to contract or the nerve is activated to send an impulse you lose potassium the more exercise you’re doing the more you’re sweating the more you’re losing these electrolytes if you’re injured or go through a surgery or trauma you will lose potassium when the thyroid works it’s a gland you’ll lose more potassium and also when you consume more refined sugar you will also lose potassium as well the other question is are we losing as much sodium no not necessarily because sodium has a tendency to be retained in the body but we do lose way more potassium and this is why this is a requirement right here as far as the sodium requirement it’s about half what we need as far as potassium when you do fasting your body will have a tendency to retain more potassium just as a survival mechanism so that’s one of the biggest reasons why we have most of our potassium 80 in the muscles and then when our potassium becomes low the muscles become weak you get tired you don’t have the endurance anymore when especially when you exercise and your muscles start to cramp if you haven’t seen my other videos on potassium i put them up right here check it out