Why Did Keto Raise My Blood Pressure? Ketogenic Diet & High Blood Pressure Connection – Dr.Berg
Why Did Keto Raise My Blood Pressure? Ketogenic Diet & High Blood Pressure Connection – Dr.Berg
Can keto cause high blood pressure problems? Here’s what you need to know.
Timestamps 0:00 Why did keto raise my blood pressure? 0:13 What is glycogen? 2:12 Dehydration, electrolytes, and high blood pressure 2:53 What to do for high blood pressure on keto? 3:22 Keto consulting
In this video, I’m going to answer the question: why did keto raise my blood pressure? This is a question I recently got from a viewer, so I wanted to make a quick video on this topic.
First, it’s important to understand that you have this stuff called glycogen. This is stored glucose or sugar. Glycogen needs potassium. For every molecule of glucose, you need one molecule of potassium. One molecule of glucose also retains 3-3.5 molecules of water.
It helps to think of glycogen as a sponge—it soaks up and holds a lot of water.
Glycogen is stored in your liver and muscles.
When you do keto and intermittent fasting, you deplete the glycogen in your liver. You’re left with only the glycogen in your muscle. In turn, the glycogen you burn also gets rid of the water and potassium it retains. This may cause dehydration and low electrolytes/potassium.
One of the primary causes of hypertension is low potassium.
Not only do you lose a lot of potassium while adapting to keto, but also your requirement goes way up. Additionally, many people are already low on potassium, which makes matters worse.
The best remedy for this issue is to do the healthy version of keto. How? There are two things:
1. Get around 1,000 mg of potassium 2. Consume 7-10 cups of vegetables per day
This will help support weight loss and also promote a healthy body and blood pressure level.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, age 58, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis \u0026 Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
#keto #ketodiet #weightloss
Thanks for watching. I hope this video helped clear up why you might experience high blood pressure on keto and what to do about it. I’ll see you next time.
Content
0.32 -> had a comment recently that i wanted to
create a video on
4 -> uh someone had their blood pressure go
up after starting keto so i decided to
9.599 -> create a video
to explain what that is now there's
13.44 -> something called glycogen glycogen
is basically stored glucose so we have a
18.4 -> glucose molecule
and when you store glucose molecules in
22.56 -> a chain
in a group it's called glycogen
27.279 -> and glycogen needs potassium to be
stored
31.519 -> for every molecule of glucose that's
attached it needs one molecule of
35.28 -> potassium
also one molecule of glucose
41.36 -> holds or retains three to three and a
half
45.68 -> molecules of water
so with each one of these little glucose
51.199 -> molecules that are attached
you have three plus
56.32 -> molecules of water so when we think of
glycogen we can really think of a sponge
61.92 -> you're holding a lot of fluid all right
so that's concept number one
66.08 -> glycogen is stored sugar it holds a lot
of water
69.52 -> it also stores potassium concept number
two
72.64 -> this glycogen is stored in the liver
and your muscles primarily it's it's
78.96 -> stored in other places but
those are the two places it's stored
83.6 -> when you do keto and you lower your
carbs
87.6 -> and you do fasting okay intermittent
fasting or
91.28 -> fasting you are going to deplete
your liver glycogen now if you fast for
97.52 -> a little bit longer time
you're going to really deplete your
100 -> liver glycogen down to almost zero
so now you're just left with the
104.96 -> glycogen in your muscle
so think about this you're going to get
108.96 -> rid of all the stored glucose
which comes with this water which comes
114.88 -> with this potassium
you're going to drop a lot of extra
118.719 -> fluid and electrolytes with an s because
there's other
123.439 -> minerals that go along with this so when
you lose water you lose
127.52 -> electrolytes in general but we're also
losing
130.56 -> more potassium one of the main causes of
hypertension
134.64 -> especially essential hypertension which
is about 90 percent
139.68 -> of all cases of hypertension and by the
way essential means
143.04 -> unknown cause there's some great data
that shows that this essential
146.64 -> hypertension is
really a potassium deficiency
153.2 -> okay remember we just talked about that
so when you do
156.4 -> keto not only do you lose potassium
sometimes the requirement for potassium
162.08 -> goes
up because we're converting over to fat
165.04 -> burning as well
and if you're already deficient in
167.68 -> potassium and now you're really
deficient in potassium
170.879 -> your blood pressure could go up so how
do we solve this
174 -> well we just do the healthy version of
keto
177.04 -> start consuming more vegetables like
seven to ten cups
181.599 -> things that are loaded with potassium
avocados are a good thing to eat as well
186 -> so we do this we get more potassium
hopefully the blood pressure can come
191.04 -> down you may also want to enhance your
diet with some extra potassium
195.44 -> like a thousand milligrams potassium per
day just to kind of speed things up
200.879 -> all right thanks for watching before you
go
204.4 -> if you have a question about a product
or you're new to keto
207.84 -> and you want to know how to begin keto
or you're on keto and you need a debug
213.04 -> because it's not going as smooth
i have a keto consultant standing by to
217.599 -> help you
this is just for the people in the us
220.48 -> hopefully in the future we'll be able to
answer everyone's call
223.36 -> but i put the number down below so you
can call
