Dr. Berg Electrolyte Powder For Exercise – Electrolytes Benefits Beyond Salt Loss

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hey guys i wanted to do a quick video on my electrolyte powder uh in relationship to exercise because i had someone recently that brought up an interesting point that i wanted to do just an entire video on okay and she she wanted to know um should i take this when i exercise because i’m going to sweat and lose my electrolytes so let’s just talk about that one point first of all what is an electrolyte electrolyte is a electrically charged mineral that helps several things number one it helps the pacemaker of the heart so it helps the rhythm of the heart conduct electricity and contract and relax it helps muscles in general contract and relax it helps the transmission of nerve and with with the heart you have both muscle and nerve working together electrolytes are also involved in hydration and fluid volume okay inside and outside the cell but here’s the thing when you exercise and you sweat you primarily lose salt or sodium chloride okay you don’t lose a lot of potassium magnesium or calcium so this is not a sodium replacement okay so you may even need if you exercise a lot and you sweat a lot you might need to add some more sea salt but the reason i created this is because i wanted to match what an average person is missing in their bodies most people are lacking potassium magnesium okay especially potassium because we need so much of it we need like 4 700 milligrams so i wanted something that would fulfill a deficiency or a gap in someone’s nutrition so a high carb diet would definitely deplete not only magnesium but definitely potassium as well also people don’t consume enough food high in potassium magnesium which happen to be the vegetable family but i know that’s not you it’s probably your relative or a family member right and then you have processed foods which are really really high in sodium very low in potassium magnesium and not to mention monosodium glutamate which is pretty much in every fast food restaurant and a lot of the other restaurants as well but it’s hidden as modified food starch okay it’s the same thing but here’s the big point i want to bring up not only does your body need a lot of potassium and magnesium electrolytes it also needs other forms of these minerals to help enzymes in your body specifically to make energy in them like in the mitochondria potassium and magnesium are like the spark plugs in these certain enzymes that help you generate energy so if you’re low in potassium or magnesium and you exercise you’re not going to have the endurance and this is why when people take this they get a lot of energy and they have an endurance because they’re usually missing these minerals and there’s just one more point i want to bring up about a comparison of other electrolyte powders out there they’re usually high in sugar they have high amounts of sodium which will replace the sweat but very low potassium hardly any magnesium and they’re loaded with sugar maltodextrin or even dextrin which is synthetic sugar so in summary i just want to bring up this really important point that yes you’re going to sweat with exercise and you do need salt okay but you also need these other electrolytes as well