In this video, I'll uncover the causes of electrolyte imbalances. Hi ladies and Gentlemen.
I'm Doctor Zyrowski and welcome back to the channel. Now, if you're new to the channel,
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join our notification community so I can help you excel your health and your life. In this
video, I'm going to uncover the causes of electrolyte imbalances. Now this is a hot
topic today and the reason for it is because many everyday people who are trying to live
a healthy lifestyle are having electrolyte imbalances. So, we're going to talk about
the causes. But you know the thing is is that when we look at these electrolyte imbalances
the different symptoms that come out of it are in many cases scary and really make you
feel very uncomfortable so we'll discuss the different electrolytes that are important
and also we'll discuss the causes why it's happening. Let's dive in. Now when we look
at the electrolytes, first of all, these are the major heavy hitters that are going to
play a huge role in your overall health and how you're feeling on a day-to-day basis:
sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, magnesium and phosphate. When those become imbalanced
in the body. A lot of nasty symptoms can come out of that and we'll talk about that in just
a moment. First, let's talk about the imbalance causes: why is this happening. So, when we
look at sickness in general, let's talk about the flu. For instance, if you get the fever,
you're vomiting, you're sweating. These are all reasons that you will create an electrolyte
imbalance in your body. Many people who are getting sick they go and feel terrible from
not only the sickness but then they feel terrible from the electrolyte imbalance and they don't
know why you never get sick. Make sure you're putting those electrolytes back in. Poor diet:
now this is a major reason so a lot of people are following a very poor-quality diet and
you know you're just if you're not eating nutrient-dense foods that is going to nourish
your body with the proper minerals and all the other nutrients that you need, then you're
going to drive an electrolyte imbalance so we have to make sure we're always focusing
on a nice good whole-food, high-quality diet. Hormone imbalance and endocrine disorders:
these pretty much go together because you can't have an endocrine disorder without a
hormone imbalance. So, let's think of an endocrine disorder like a thyroid problem. You know
many people are suffering from thyroid problems that this creates an imbalance. If you have
hormone imbalances - let's say you have a lot of stress. Cortisol is very high in your
body: that'll cause it. Let's look at metabolic hormones like insulin. You have high insulin
levels because of that poor-quality diet that you’re eating. Well, that will also go and
drive an imbalance and even medications that artificially drive hormone imbalances like
a birth control pill - those will also cause that electrolyte balance. So, take all that
into consideration. Malabsorption is the next thing that we have to pay attention to because
a lot of people suffer from gut issues. Now gut issues, like inflammatory bowel issues,
looking at things like Crohn's and IBS and ulcerative colitis and even imbalances in
the microbiota meaning basically a bacterial imbalance within the gut. These all lead to
malabsorption causes a lot of issues. So, take that into consideration. Medications
like antibiotics, cortical steroid hormone-based medications - these all drive the electrolyte
imbalances and a lot of people are using these today. Kidney damage: so if you have any type
of kidney issue, the kidneys play a huge role in your overall electrolyte balance, low-carb
diet or even the ketogenic diet, so we have to make sure that when we're following a ketogenic
diet or the low-carb diet, we're always adding electrolytes back in because what happens
especially when you first start the diet, you flush a lot of water from your body and
the electrolytes go with it and you feel terrible. That's what the keto flu is about. So, if
we are someone who is going into this diet, we go in and add the electrolytes in essentially
we feel so much better for it and so we want to make sure that we're following these diets,
we're always adding electrolytes in to give us a better quality of life and not feel like
garbage. Fasting is another one. Now, if you're doing a four-day fast, 70-day fast, you're
doing one meal a day, you're doing intermittent fasting, these are all reasons that you can
have electrolyte imbalances so be aware of that. You know when people go in there just
fasting and not adding any type of electrolytes, a lot of times they feel terrible and that
is a reason that a lot of people will just stop where if you actually add those electrolytes
in during the fast, you feel so much better. So, make sure that we take that into consideration
because fasting is a powerful tool and I'll put a link in the description below to my
fasting playlist because I have tons of information on that. Filtered water: now one of the things
in my home is that we hyper filter our water and the reason for that is because we have
to get the chemicals out of it. Now if you live in the city, you probably have fluoride
in your water, you probably of chlorine in your water and if you live in the country
and you're using a well, you have problems like arsenic and different herbicides and
things like that coming the farm fields. Now I live in a farming community so that's something
that we definitely take into consideration and one of the problems with filtering your
water is that you take the minerals, you take the good stuff out with the bad stuff, so
of course you want to get the bad stuff out and what I do is we just add electrolytes
back into our daily regimen because I know that we're pulling the electrolytes and the
minerals out of the water and that's just the way it is. Yes, you can go and add it
back in you know through special processes but it gets really costly and it's a very
convoluted process. Trust me. So, just use something to add it in on a daily basis. Food
quality is the next major topic of discussion. What I'm referring to here is the actual nutrient
density within your food. So, it's a big problem today when we look at organic farming or even
natural farming. I live in a farming community - essentially the conversation is always how
do we add more nutrients back on the soil? How do we actually deal with the problem of
mineral depletion? And so, what's happening and what I'm telling you is that when you're
getting your good healthy food from the store, in many cases, it has a decreased amount of
nutrients compared to what it did 40-50 years ago. The soil is very different; it's very
depleted and you're just not getting the nutrients and so that's why I know a lot of good well-intended
people who are eating healthy diets are still having electrolyte imbalances because the
food quality isn't there like it used to be and the nutrient and even the mineral levels
within the food is much less. Last on our list is an exercise. So, if you're participating
in any type of endurance exercise or any exercise that's causing you to sweat a lot, you will
be dumping those electrolytes and I always tell my story about how you know between a
low-carb diet and doing fasting and also filtered water and exercise, I drove myself into an
electrolyte deficiency and it caused so many different symptoms and caused me to really
feel absolutely terrible. I mean we're talking anything from heart palpitations to muscle
twitching. I mean, you name it and what I'll do too is I'll put a link up here to a video
that I did that talks about the symptoms of the electrolyte imbalance and I'll put it
in the description here below. So, what I do is I use an electrolyte powder and is a
delicious hydrating electrolyte powder that has all these major electrolytes that are
important for your body within it. So, what I'll do is I'll put a link to that in the
description below. That's how I keep electrolytes up in my body. Like I said, I'm doing all
these different healthy lifestyle things like filtering my water, following a low-carb diet,
endurance exercise. I need the electrolytes and so that's how I keep it in my system.
Now a lot of people ask, too, is how do you go about going in and seeing what your electrolyte
levels are. So, a lot of people will look at the symptoms and they'll go, hmmm, you
know on that checklist there I have a lot of them. Let's go ahead and try it. Electrolytes
are very inexpensive so you can go ahead and just add them into your lifestyle and if it
works, it works and if it doesn't, then you can go this step further. This step further
is getting a blood test and once again you're going to spend a little bit more money here
so a lot of people don't want to go this route first – just want to look at the symptoms.
Now as far as how you're going to measure these accurately, like I said, you get that
blood test. It'll tell you that you know what your different electrolyte levels are and
then you'll be able to know with pinpoint accuracy what you need to focus on. So, you
can look at the symptoms first and then if you want to go that step further, get the
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