POTS is a known blood circulation problem indicated by two elements: a specific group of symptoms that constantly happen when standing. A heart rate suddenly increases from horizontal to standing (or as tested on a tilt table) of at least 30 bpm in adults, or at least 40 bpm in adolescents, measured during the first 10 minutes of standing.
Management for POTS should be specific to each individual since the symptoms and underlying conditions may vary. Most patients can control the situation with food templates, exercise, and medications. In this podcast, Dr. J and Evan emphasize the importance of the quality of food that we eat and seek medical attention, and undergo tests that will find the disease's root cause for better understanding and achieve a healthier body.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
1:15 What is POTS
10:56 Adaptogenic Herbs
15:15 Addressing POTS
24:43 Detox and Sauna
27:14 Other Natural and Organic Tips
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And we are live. It's got the J in the house here with Evan Brand really excited to have a excellent podcast on the topic of POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which is has to do with blood pressure and dizziness. And there's a strong connection with POTS and the adrenals we're really excited to dive into that today, Evan, how are we doing today man?
Evan Brand: Doing really well. I feel like I started every story or every podcast by like complaining a little bit, but that's okay. Because we learn from our personal struggles. And that's what makes us better practitioner. So I was telling you before we hit record that when I had the, you know what virus, I had a lot of POTS types symptoms, I was really dizzy, I was really faint. I was having some lower blood pressure. I was having some heart palpitations, I was having some mental confusion just fell out of it. And so dealing with it personally, I definitely tried a lot of different things. So you and I are going to try to go into it. You and I were talking about the adrenal piece. So why don't you just start telling us about that? What do you think the connection is? You think it's a more of a low cortisol deal? A high cortisol? Do you think it's just adrenal weakness? The whole HPA axis is functioning as a whole, or do you think there's any specific part of adrenal problems that's causing this?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Great, great, great question. So first off, you know, what is POTS? Right? So essentially, there's like dysautonomia happening, right? The autonomic nervous system that controls heart rate, and blood pressure, sweating, all of these different things, the symptoms are over exaggerated now. So when you change body positions, you may get very dizzy lightheaded, right, your heart rate may be really up, energy fatigue, maybe up, right, conventional medicine, they're going to use a tilt table test to kind of simulate that change of body position, and they're going to test your heart, they're going to test your blood pressure, okay? Now the typical response you want in, in natural medicine, there's a test called the raglans test, which looks at blood pressure and correlates it to adrenal dysfunction. And so the raglans tests, basically test your blood pressure when you're sitting or laying down, and then you stand up or change body position, you want your blood pressure, actually to go up about five to 10 points, okay? People that tend to be more on the pot side, where they have a lot of those symptoms on changing their body position, they tend to actually have a drop in blood pressure. And that's important, because when you change body positions, now, if you're like more horizontal, well, guess what, it's easier for your blood to flow to your brain, right? Because blood flows downhill. And if it's level than that, that works too, right? soon as you get up. Now, you really have to pump blood uphill, if you will, to get to your brain. And so if you have a drop in blood pressure, you're not going to have enough pressure to perfuse that blood nutrition and oxygen to the brain. So that's a big thing. So you may have symptoms in regards to your heart, in regards to dizziness, right? body awareness, all those different things because you don't have adequate blood pressure. And so that's a common sign with adrenal issues. And it's possible to be on the POTS spectrum, where you have that change in body position, you have that change in lower blood pressure, but you know, your conventional medical doctor may not be able to diagnose you with POTS because it's not severe enough. So like anything, there's a there's a continuum on a diagnosis, right? disease, allopathic kind of criteria is here. And then we have optimal health here. And usually there's a spectrum of where you may sit where you're kind of in no man's land. And so most of our POTS patients, right who are on that pot spectrum where there's blood pressure issues, on the lower side or the change in body position causes lots of disturbances cognitively cognitive wise heart issues, whether it's faster or or beating through the chest kind of things, or abnormal rhythm. All of these things are connected to adrenals. And adrenal is are of course connected to blood sugar. They're connected to your minerals, your sodium, your chloride, your magnesium, your potassium, blood sugar, cortisol glucocorticosteroids. And then of course, your adrenals eventually have a connection with your sex hormones. So you can see chronically lower dapa back can create other lower or more sex hormone imbalances that can create more issues, whether it's PMS, low progesterone, more anxiety, more depression, poor sleep. So you can see how an adrenal issue can easily spin into a sex hormone issue, partly because the adrenals really are one of the backup generators for the sex hormones. And so especially if you're a female, you're going to rely on those adrenals to pump out dapa sulfate. And that's going to be a major building blocks. So as you transition into menopause, you're going to rely more on those adrenal. So as you hit your 40s, it's common as those ovaries aren't supporting the hormonal output like they used to that you may start to lean more on the adrenals. And more of those POTS type of symptoms may show up.
Evan Brand: Yeah, well said, well, you pointed out something really interesting. I never thought about it like this, but you and I clinically we kind of operate in the no man's land, meaning that people may have not been extreme enough, as you mentioned, to get the clinical diagnosis. I mean, the same thing happens with celiac, right? They'll say that you have to have some In crazy, like 95% tissue destruction in the intestines to be considered celiac, but if you're like 94%, they say you're not celiac, go eat some bread, it's fine. So it's very interesting point you made. And we've actually had clients report this to where they'll say that their pulse rate or their heartbeat only increased by maybe 20, or 25 beats upon standing. And they were told clinically, it had to be 30 beats. So if you're 28 beats, you're still not pods, if you're 30 beats, increase your POTS. And so that's the problem is there's this huge in between area where people have these symptoms, but then they go to their doctor, and they're basically going to get told that everything is fine. And there's really nothing we can do for you or possibly what they'll do. If it was moderate enough, but maybe not clinically diagnosed on paper, maybe they do a beta blocker, because they say, Okay, I understand you're standing up, you're having heart palpitations, you're having chest pain, let's go ahead and do this meta pro law or other beta blocker to try to calm the symptoms, but then you never actually fixed the adrenals you never support the hormones, you never fixed the minerals. And all of that still goes unaddressed. And then of course, you get the side effects of the drug, and then you create more problems. So you see how this could be a really big slippery slope. And then also one thing I want to mention too, because I experienced it personally was you mentioned like the the dizziness and that kind of stuff, but also just mental fog. I mean, if you don't have enough nutrients, enough blood flow, you just feel kind of spacey. So if you're having trouble with focus, a lot of times you and I are looking on like an organic acids test to try to look at dopamine or other neurotransmitter problems. But this whole dysautonomia POTS thing could also create brain fog. So that's just something else that we're going to be looking for and trying to address.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so typically with POTS is you're gonna have a combination of a drop in blood pressure, right? So conventional medicine diagnosis is looking at a 20 millimeter drop in mercury on the blood pressure cuff on the systolic, that's the top number, and then about a 10 or more on the bottom number. So if it's normally 120 over 80, you know, you got to be at, you know, below 100 over 70, if you will, okay, and that's in the first couple of minutes of that change in body position. And then typically, as the blood pressure drops, now you're not able to move as much blood. And so what has to happen is your heart rate has to increase to compensate for the lack of pressure. And so as the heart rate increases, that's where you start to see the increase in heart rate, that's where the, the postural orthostatic that's the change in body position, tachycardia, that means faster heart rate. And so that's where you start to feel your heart beating out of its chest. Okay, and so then you have the drop in blood pressure on one side, and the increase in heart rate on the other side. So the first thing we look at, from a functional medicine perspective, where are we in? Where are we at with hydration? Okay, are we getting enough water and hydration in? Number two? Is that full spectrum mineral water? Are we getting a really good mineral water? Are we getting? are we adding additional minerals to it? And then number three, where are we at with diuretics, coffee, tea, things that have caffeine because coffee or tea number one will increase adrenaline, right? And adrenaline is part of this whole POTS cascade, so increased adrenalin, increased, cortisol can always increase the heart rates. But it also acts more as a diuretic where you pee more water out, that drops your blood pressure. And then when you drop the water, you drop the minerals and your heart needs sodium and chloride and magnesium and your minerals to function. Remember, magnesium is a natural beta blocker. And so if we can get the minerals in that brings the blood pressure up because water follows minerals. And if we can get minerals in that relax the heart because magnesium is a natural beta blocker, right. And so that can really help start to relax the heart, but you got to fix the underlying issue. And so you got to really get and that's just a couple of lifestyle, diet strategies out of the gates, we'll talk more specifically. But anyone that has POTS or POTS symptoms, we have to really look at the adrenals. And you may not necessarily have an Addison's issue where your cortisol is pathologically low, right, or Cushing's where it's pathologically high, it may be some kind of an imbalance in between. That's why we use the word adrenal dysfunction because some people are high in the morning, low at night, and vice versa. So it may not be high throughout the day or low throughout the day, you could be somewhere in between. And so we really got to look at these things and test it and quantify and see exactly where you're at.
Evan Brand: Yeah, great points. And on the testing, you made another great point, too, which is that if you do work with conventional medicine, they may say that your problem is not bad enough to be pathological. So we've had clients that will do just a morning cortisol sample via blood, and their doctor says, Well, your cortisol levels are fine. And it's like, okay, yeah, you took an ATM blood sample. And that's it. That's just not enough tensional data, you have no, maybe you have a better analogy, but my analogy is you're you're touching the sidewalk to estimate the forecast. You have no idea what's going to happen throughout the rest of the day with that rhythm. So if you're having your POTS episode at 2, 3pm, you're crashing, well, what's going on from a cortisol perspective at that point with that 8am blood sample and that's it. You don't have a clue. Let me let me mention a couple things too. So I know that a lot of people with mold, just looking at Dr. Shoemaker and his big list of symptoms, POTS is sort of thrown in to some of these symptoms for mold exposure, and then also lyme. So when you're trying to find root causes adrenals could be a factor, but there could be another layer deeper. So if you've had any kind of take issues, coinfection issues that could be a problem. And so, I know Stephen Buner, I talk about him a lot. He's a really great herbalist who's written a lot of books, he discusses using Hawthorne. And so I've experimented with some heart formulas myself, like mixing CO, q, 10, and Hawthorne. And I've had really good success with it. And so I think those are two, two good herbs that you know, two good nutrients that could help. And then also gingko could be helpful too, because gingko is going to help with blood flow and microcirculation. We use it a lot for brain problems. But I do believe that it can be helpful for POTS. And then let's talk about the adaptogenic herbs. So I guess it really depends on what you're looking like. But in general adaptogens are going to help modify you either way. So I would say something like rhodiola, or maybe a good ginseng, like an eleuthero is going to be probably the top top choice on adaptogens. What would you say? Oh, what about licorice? Should we talk about that?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so a lot of these herbs out of the gates, you know, they're nice, because they're going to help with blood flow. A lot of these herbs like gingko, or Hawthorn, they tend to be used more on the high blood pressure side, right. And so they may help with blood flow. But remember, I think with POTS, there's definitely more of a blood, low blood pressure kind of kind of thing. So we have to kind of, you know, make sure we support all of the other underlying issues. Because, you know, a lot of times, if we're not getting to the root, then we may not get lasting results. Plus a lot of times the medications that are used, what are the big medications that are used out of the gates, is it just beta blockers out of the gates, I know they do some things like floor enough, which can be helpful, which is basically a pharmaceutical version of aldosterone, which helps to hold on to sodium, which helps increase blood pressure. You kind of alluded just a minute ago, licorice does help mimic that. And so we can use things like licorice, that non diglycerides meaning not licorice, that's diglycerides de glycerides. licorice loses that aldosterone stimulating effect, and it's more for gut healing. But if we're using licorice that has not been de glycerides, non dgl, licorice that can have very powerful effects on low aldosterone levels, and it can help hold on the minerals better. So for adding more minerals in there, that's helpful. conventional medicine typically only talks about it from a perspective of sodium and sodium chloride, they kind of forget about the magnesium and the potassium part of it. So magnesium and potassium are also very important. Also, they're using a lot of beta blockers, right? So beta blockers, guess what they reduce the heart rate, but they also can reduce the blood pressure. And they have effects of creating nutritional deficiencies. And it can it can lead you can lose some of those same minerals, magnesium, etc, that are also very helpful for the heart in general. So the problem with a lot of the medications, they can actually make some of the problems worse in the long run, because they're not fixing the underlying issue.
Evan Brand: Yeah, well said, here's here's a couple other drugs, you're asking what drugs, here's a list of them. There's one called Ivabradine. It's a drug that acts on the heart to slow the heart rate, but it slows the heart with without affecting blood pressure. And then there's another one here, underneath, it's hard to even pronounce it Pyridostigmine, the brand name Mestinon, this is a drug that prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine. So that's pretty interesting. It's like an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, I guess.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hmm, interesting.
Evan Brand: It says they use it for. Let's see here. Myasthenia Gravis.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's an autoimmune condition that affects the postsynaptic neuron where acetylcholine plugs in.
Evan Brand: So they're using that drug for POTS also, I guess it's kind of an off label deal. And then SSRIs for some reason, it says here that, you know, people I guess they're saying practitioners suspect that the fainting spells may be related to serotonin or some other neurotransmitter so they also use SSRIs. But once again, none of this is root cause and as you mentioned, the conventional like Web MD stuff is all about sodium, sodium, sodium, like you should just be frickin eating spoonfuls of like iodized salt all day, which is just ridiculous.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And there's different kinds of salt right? And there's some salts that we like that like real salt or Redmond Real Salt or Celtic salt or Himalayan that are gonna have sodium and chloride but a bunch of other minerals as well, which is great. The problem a lot of the medications for instance, beta blockers are notorious for depleting CoQ 10. And we need coq 10 for healthy heart function. So problem with a lot of these medications is you're kind of robbing. You're paying your credit card debt from last month with a new credit card you open this month. And so you can only play hot potato like that for so long before that bill becomes due.
Evan Brand: We made the point about the potassium to I think we talked about that for a minute because you're saying even if we do bring in some of the Celtic or the mineral salts You may get some trace amounts, right? But you're not going to get a significant amount. So you're thinking possibly supplementing, like we have. I know you and I work with a couple electrolyte formulas where there's some potassium added in there. So something like that would be better than just straight salt.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so how I look at it with patients is first thing first is drink enough water. Make sure that water is clean, filtered, no crap, not tap water, number one. Number two, avoid the diuretics. Right. avoid caffeine. avoid alcohol, avoid teas, right. So that way you're not peeing out extra water and minerals. add extra minerals to your water. So good. Redmond's real salts Celtic sea salt, half a teaspoon teaspoon twice a day is great salt your food very liberally hydrate you know, 20 ounces or so before each meal 1015 minutes before drink in between meals. It's great. If you're drinking a really clean reverse osmosis water which is fine. Just make sure you add extra minerals back to it. definitely avoid any distilled water. And then if you want to drink like a really good clean mineral water throughout the day, my favorite here in Texas Topachico's wonderful, right? It's the Pellegrino of the South Pellegrino is also wonderful good mineral sulfate drill Steiner, Evian, Fiji, Fiji has got a lot of silica in there really excellent out of the gates love those. I would say also, you may need to have more potassium and magnesium than what you're getting in mineral water and in the salt, because you need about 4700 milligrams per day. So I recommend everyone, head over to JustinHealth.com/cronometer, put the link below, run your macros run a typical day through there, right put your age, your height, your weight, your activity level, and you're gonna find you need about 4700 milligrams per day. And that's the [inaudible] daily recommended intake, most people are only getting two to three grams 2000 to 3000 milligrams, and you're probably have a deficit. And then you also have to factor in when you're stressed. And when your adrenals have issues, you may need a couple extra grams on top of that, because you're losing extra minerals. So you got to factor that in. So take a look, see where you're at, see how low you're at. And out of the gates, you know, you want to supplement additional potassium, whatever that recommended intake is if you're at 2700 milligrams, you want an extra 2000 milligrams to meet the needs. And then from there, you really want to work with a functional medicine practitioner because if you go too high in potassium without enough sodium to support it, you can actually you can actually lower sodium by doing too much potassium so you got to keep that sodium potassium in check. Now if you're doing Redmond's Real Salt, like I mentioned, along with the potassium, you're probably okay. But if you have any POTS issues at all, you really want to be working with a functional medicine doctor like us, you want to be looking at cortisol, like Evan said earlier, a blood test is only going to look at your serum cortisol, your protein, it's not going to look at any of your free cortisol, it's not going to look at it throughout the day. It's not going to add it up throughout the day. And then we also run organic acids that look at the catecholamines the adrenaline, the epinephrine again, adrenaline, catecholamines, and epinephrine. It's all the same thing, right? Medicine uses these words to confuse the heck out of you, adrenaline, catecholamine, nor epinephrine, all the same thing, okay. And so we have to test those and we use organic acids, we'll run tests for Vanilmandelate and Homovanillate, which gives us a window into your adrenaline precursor. So if we're burning up adrenaline, we gotta support the amino acids, we got to calm down the adrenals to really help the body. So we're not creating all this extra stress because that stress causes you to dump minerals. And so if you're dumping minerals, we have to replace what you typically need. Plus a little bit on top of that, plus, we got to fix and calm down the whole nervous system, right? That autonomic nervous system, that's the automatic nervous system that controls heart rate, beat, these are things you don't typically think about. You don't think about beating your heart, it happens automatically. So we got to help calm that down.
Evan Brand: Yeah, so even some of the lifestyle strategies can get involved too, right? I mean, you could take all the adaptogens. But if you're just a type A personality or a go getter, you're not resting, you're not taking breaks. So I would argue, some music, I would argue meditation, guided meditation, maybe a float tank, deep tissue massage, may be myofascial relief, anything that you could do to try to basically downshift your nervous system. Because yes, you mentioned something several times, which I think really kind of just ding ding ding hit the bell for many people, which is the the variable of stress. And people that are more stressed are going to have this problem more, you're likely not just going to be sitting on an island, you know, getting, you know, spoon fed pineapple and you feel POTS. Now, this is going to be people that are really under the gun. They're in the middle of a lot of transition there. Maybe Who knows, maybe they lost their job. Maybe they had a viral issue that really took them down like you had a post viral type POTS Come on. So stress, I think is the big variable and that's where the adaptogens come in and help the nervous system self regulate. However, I've done adaptogens for years and I can still be stressed so I still have to focus During the lifestyle stuff, take the kids for a bike ride, go ride the skateboard, go for a walk, go for a hike, just sit out in the sun and listen to music. So you got to come in with the lifestyle stuff too. You can't just go take the magic pill and you know, eat the salt and be cured. I think at a certain point, you need to come in and evaluate your lifestyle and figure out do I have toxic people I need to cut out am I working too many hours? Am I able to delegate some of the work I'm a you know, financial advisor and I'm too stressed I'm working 60 hours a week, can you delegate Can you reduce the workload reduce the stress, because in a vacuum, the stuff that we're talking about, it won't get you fully out of the woods with this, I do think you have to do a good life evaluation.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100% got to look at all of it right. And that's super important. Now, in general with with a lot of things we may want to get, you know, a couple extra, you know, grams of good quality sea salt. So you can start with you know, an extra gram, the 10 grams of high quality sea salt, I typically recommend starting with a half a teaspoon to a teaspoon, two times a day, put it in your water, shoot it down. You can also salt your food very liberally, you know to taste throughout the day. You can also add a little pinch in your water just enough so you can't taste it, you shouldn't be able to taste them. You can also drink a good quality quality mineral water right mentioned a couple of these brands. And then you can also work on doing all the right things to reduce stress. So I already mentioned a couple things out of the gates. Blood Sugar is a big thing, the more your blood sugar goes up and down on a roller coaster ride your surging adrenaline and cortisol when your blood sugar goes hypo when it starts to go low. And when you start surging adrenaline, it's going to create more mineral depletion, because you're going to pee it out, right? So we The more you can kind of come down that blood sugar and make it more stable part of that by being more fat burner right? healthy proteins, healthy fats and dialing in the carbs, less refined, refined grains, keeping it more to vegetables. And low sugar fruit in those kinds of things play a big, big role in keeping the blood sugar rollercoaster smoothed out. The less blood sugar roller coaster, the less adrenaline the less dumping of minerals does play a huge role across the board.Evan Brand: And this is a new problem. By the way, the blood sugar issue that you're mentioning this is in terms of modern history, right? Because if you look at like a hunter gatherer, for example, maybe they're gonna find a beehive and get some fresh honey every once in a while. But never in human history. Have we had access to the processed carbs, the fructose, the processed sugar, these major nations have processed grains, yeah, flowers, any of the stuff that is screwing up our blood sugar. These are all relatively new problems for humankind. So if someone's sitting back and they're listening, like God, why is it so complicated to be a healthy human? Well, because we've screwed it up with the diet, the lifestyle, the sedentary, the stress, the the schedules, the work hours, I mean, modern life has contributed to this problem. So, you know, I know it's a little frustrating. And thank God, why is everything complicated with health? Well, because the diet is a big part of it. And I certainly know that when I had blood sugar issues, I had a lot more unstable blood pressure, too. So there is definitely a big connection there. The good news is once you get your diet dialed in, and you are a fat burner, you're going to feel so much better, you're going to feel so much more stable.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And I remember early on when I was looking at your diet law, we were chatting, I think you were having some of these POTS issues with a lot of the heart racing, right. And I remember looking at your diet and there was like an eight hour gap. In the day where you weren't eating, I think you were trying to do a little bit more intermittent intermittent fasting, things like that. I'm like, wow, you know, you're not going to be able to do those things because the fasting is too much of a stress on your body, your your physiology is not strong enough to be able to adapt to that stress. And so if you are doing a lot of intermittent fasting, you really got to be careful of that, you know, so kind of my checklist out of the gates is definitely be more of a fat burner. Avoid the refined flours, grains, high blood sugar types of foods that add in the extra minerals, half a teaspoon, teaspoon high quality, sea salt per day, work with a functional medicine doctor, get your magnesium, your potassium dialed in half your body weight in ounces of water. Clean, filtered water is excellent good quality, reputable brand mineral water during the day. All of these things are vitally, vitally important. Good breathing, good movement, don't over exercise where you're sweating too much. You know, make sure you're doing all the right things and get your adrenals tested, get your organic acids tested to look at your adrenalin as well. I mean, we can always dive in deeper. If you have a lot of gut issues and absorption there. There always could be a bottleneck with the gut as well. It's always possible, but those are kind of your first steps out of the gates, Alaska with the low hanging fruit, start with low hanging fruit, and then work on finding a good functional medicine support practitioner to get in your corner.
Evan Brand: I wanted to bring this up before you wrapped it up. So last thing, detox and sauna. So I do notice that some clients and me included if we go too high, we do too much. We do too frequent with sauna and or detox support, especially binders, we can run into some trouble. So just like you mentioned On the exercise not doing too much. Same thing with sauna I think you got to be careful with it if you're already adrenally depleted, if you're glutathione deficient if your detox pathways are not working, you can overdo it quick. So I would say the average person could hopefully handle twice a week, maybe 135 to 140 degrees for about 20 minutes but if you start to feel woozy, you feel faint, you feel like you're gonna pass out in the sauna just get out, you're probably dehydrated, your mineral are off your adrenals are too weak, so don't push it, don't push it. And then on the binder piece, work with your practitioner, but in general, sometimes less is more on the binders. I remember when I was doing like eight charcoal per day, I started to feel pretty woozy and it could have been like a detox reaction, but I think it may have been some mineral stuff too. So I was doing some fulvic acids and some salts to try to help balance it, but I still overdid it with binders. So those are just two other notes I wanted to share.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. So if you're going to do a sauna, make sure if you already have kind of POTS symptoms, one don't do it right after exercise, probably too much stress. Okay, do a sauna session by itself. Number two, take an electrolyte support a balanced electrolyte support product before you go in and have a good mineral water while you're there sweating. So then any water that comes out, you're replacing it as it comes in with mineral so supplement before and then good mineral water during and that should be and then try to keep it under 20 minutes and make sure you're not feeling any bit woozy or any bit worse in regards to your symptoms while you're in there. I think that's a good kind of general way of of hitting.
Evan Brand: Alright, here's my shameless plug. And then we can wrap up My Hydration Essentials is an electrolyte formula that I drink, I just do a scoop of it. I mix it with water and drink one scoop a day. And it does have some ribose it does have potassium, some taurine, some of the other nutrients outside of just your sodium. And I also drink that in the sauna and I give it to my kids. And I like to actually mix it with beet powder. And we use just an organic beet powder. And I add it to the electrolytes because it really increases nitric oxide. So my hands, my feet, everything gets warmer, circulations better and I sweat, like 25% more sweat in the sauna, if I mix the electrolytes with the beet powder and drink that. So that's called hydration essentials.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And that's great. And other natural thing that you can do on top of that celery juice is wonderful. You get about one gram of potassium in a cup of celery juice. So celery juice is excellent. Very good. It's kind of your it's Mother Nature's natural Gatorade, right problem with Gatorade ton of sugar, a ton of high fructose ton of dyes. So it's basically crap. You know, Mother Nature's gatorades coconut water. But the problem with coconut water is a lot of sugar in it. So you really only want to do a post workout. So the best type of natural low sugar gatorades in the me celery juice, that's a great option for you a lot of good minerals, a lot of good potassium. And if you do any green juices really avoid any carrot and or any fruit in there because when just juice it, the sugar concentrates really high. And that can create this reactive hypoglycemic drop blood sugar was a fast comes down hard. And this is kind of what feeds into the all the pot stuff. Right, it creates more cortisol aberrations and more adrenaline, noradrenaline stimulation, so just be careful that really good we'll put links to the some of the products that Evan mentioned and some of the things that I mentioned as well. Anything else you want to highlight, Evan?
Evan Brand: Great call on the carrots. You know, when you think of eating a carrot, like in a beef stew, you don't think of it as being necessarily sugar. But I have had some clients do what you're describing, which is they'll get into the green juices with the carrots and will track their blood sugar. Man, that stuff screws up their blood sugar almost as much as a soda does.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, if you're gonna have a carrot, eat it whole. Once you juice it, it becomes a problem. Now if you're doing like, if you're just using like one carrot, and you're relatively healthy, probably not a big deal. But if you have blood sugar issues, I stay away from any carrots if you're gonna have a carrot habit and your salad eat it raw. I think that's a good way to do it. Still nutrient dense. But yeah, you gotta you don't want to throw too much blood sugar on that blood sugar rollercoaster. And beets too.
Evan Brand: Sorry. Well, last thing. So I talked about the beets. So the one that we use and carry is a non hybridized beet powder because apparently just like with strawberries, and pretty much every other fruit in the in the modern world, everything's hybridized now to be bigger, brighter, sweeter. So most beets are hybridized even if they're non GMO, they're hybridized and so they're gonna cause a big blood sugar problem. I have some clients that are just way too blood sugar unstable to handle beets but if it's a non hybridized version, it is a little bit more well tolerated. So just keep that in mind if you feel kind of woozy. If you do the beet powder thing I'm talking about you feel weird. It could be messing with your blood sugar, you could always test it.
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