In this video, I'm going to teach you how to know if you have an electrolyte deficiency.
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In this video, we're talking about electrolyte deficiency symptoms.
When we look at electrolytes, there's a lot of different symptoms that arise.
Now, clinically, there's a lot of questions that we ask to determine if somebody could
potentially have an electrolyte deficiency.
So we're going to go through these and I'm going to talk about each and every one of
them because as I've mentioned in another video, I've probably had about every symptom
there is when it comes to electrolyte deficiencies because I drove myself into a huge deficit
after doing a low carb diet for many years, way before keto was even cool, and also going
strenuous exercise using intermittent fasting and other forms of fasting as well.
Now, a lot of people unknowingly have this same problem because along with intermittent
fasting, and ketogenic diet, and exercise, also many people have rapid weight loss which
will cause an electrolyte deficit.
So, when we look at these electrolytes they can cause a lot have havoc in our body.
So, let's go ahead and jump into these different questions that you can ask yourself and determine
if this is something you're facing.
The first here is poor muscle endurance.
So, are you someone who goes to the gym and you feel like no matter hard you work and
how much effort your put in, you just don't have that endurance to do a lot of reps with
your weight or even do any type of long-distance cardio because your endurance is so bad.
Well, there's a good chance you could have an electrolyte deficiency.
This certainly was the case for me.
So, definitely keep that in mind.
The next thing is, muscle cramping.
So, whether it's muscle spasms, or muscle twitching, or muscle cramping, they're all
related.
So, a lot of time you'll get muscle cramping, you're familiar with that.
Muscle twitching will typically happen in some smaller muscle groups like around the
eye, around the mouth, maybe in the feet, that sort of thing.
But, if you're getting any of that then once again, electrolyte deficiency is probably
an issue for you, and this is something that I'd wake up in the middle of the night with
cramps so bad I couldn't even walk them off, and so, once again I can tell you that I've
experienced most of these here.
Next is, frequent thirst.
This one's pretty interesting because how I would explain this is, that you feel that
you're just very thirty, you need to drink a lot of water but then you start drinking
your water and you're like I don't want any water, I've already drank enough, but then
you put the water down and then your mind is going, wow I'm really thirty.
And so, it's a kind of a frustrating thing but if you have an electrolyte deficiency
you can feel that way and you no matter what you do, you can't really seem to satiate that
thirst.
Next here is, frequent urination.
This one's a pretty interesting one because I had a really young gentleman in his twenties
come to me and one of his major complaints is just like, man I'm running to the bathroom
all day long and then all night I'm actually running to the bathroom as well, you know,
multiple times.
You know, he's young enough that we're not thinking prostate here, but we are thinking,
okay this is someone who's on a ketogenic diet, someone who's doing all the right things
and exercising.
Well, it turns out he has an electrolyte deficiency.
As soon as he balanced that out he was able to cut his bathroom trips down by probably
70%.
And so, frequent urination is a problem here.
And you know, these two obviously play into each other, frequent thirst, frequent urination,
but the frequent urination is very frustrating for some people.
So, definitely look into some electrolyte deficiencies there.
Next, is craving salt.
That's pretty self-explanatory.
Bowel irregularity.
So, people who are going from constipated to IBS symptoms, to all of the place.
Definitely that's something that can be a result of electrolyte deficiency
Swelling in both the ankles and the wrist, that's an electrolyte deficiency.
And the next one is, breathing.
We're thinking shallow or rapid breathing.
This one's actually really a funny one here and it's one of those things that we just
take for granted that we breathe normally on a regular basis, but people who have an
electrolyte deficiency it's almost like they forget how to breathe or they lose that proper
breathing rhythm.
So, what you'll have is you'll find yourself taking very shallow breaths, and not like
on a consistent basis but you'll go through kind of like bouts of it.
So, very shallow breaths, or very rapid breaths and then you'll start thinking to yourself,
wow, what did I forget how to breath and then you'll focus on breathing in, breathing out,
but you really don't know why it's a problem for you.
Well, that actually is a problem with a electrolyte deficiency.
So, these are all things that really disrupt your life in a big way.
I mean, I even had personally a problem with high blood pressure where the longer I fasted,
my blood pressure would continue to creep up.
So once again, that was related to electrolytes.
And so, all these different symptoms right here can be a major problem if you've put
yourself in a huge electrolyte deficiency, and let me tell you, you feel awful.
Exercise feels awful, everything feels awful with an electrolyte deficiency.
So, how do you bring them back up?
So, first of all, you can take a multi-vitamin that has these different electrolytes in them,
which is powerful, right?
For me, that wasn't enough.
The other thing that you can do is you can actually increase your amount of sea salt
consumption which has good electrolytes in it.
For me, that also was not enough and I couldn't consume enough salt to actually hit the levels
that I needed.
you know, at the time I was using pickle juice, that was recommended, that's kind of an athlete
trick.
Well, if you do any type of endurance stuff, pickle juice, but actually research proves
to us now that pickle juice is totally ineffective, so what I do is I actually supplement with
it.
I take a powder.
I'll go ahead and link the one that I use in the description below.
It's an electrolyte power/energy drink and I use it as a pre-workout but I also use it
throughout the day to give me a boost and also, mostly, boost up my electrolyte levels
because I can tell you taking a multi-vitamin, and also eating a lot of sea salt, and using
some of these different methods, like even cream of tartar that's high in potassium,
that was not nearly enough for me doing endurance training and following the ketogenic does
and all these other things.
So anyway, I have to supplement with it.
Many people should be supplementing with it even thought they're not because it feels
so much better.
I did another video on electrolyte deficiency and one meal a day because that's something
that people who are fasting or doing intermittent fasting have a problem with.
If you want to check that video out, go ahead right here.
I just list a bunch more different symptoms that people face.
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you they feel awful.
You just can't feel good with it.
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on intermittent fasting and ketosis and then I'll see you in the next video.