Decoding Physiology: Calcium Alkali Syndrome Part 1

[@tszlachetka]

Super helpful video and easy to listen to! Reviewing for USMLE and wanted a good in depth explanation of this and this is perfect - listening to part 2 right after this!

[@rdance3]

I'm carnivore and don't eat carbs at all. ZERO carbs. Recently, I was sick with a virus. Just before, what I thought was full recovery, I became very weak. I suddenly needed sugar. I ate three packets of sugar and a Snickers Bar and soon felt better. When I got home, I ate two bowls of icecream. The next day, I was still a little weak so I had a small bowl of icecream and a protein shake. Less than an hour later, I was in the Emergency Room. There, I was given three IV bags and two big Potassium pills. I was told that my Potassium was low, which I found strange because I salt my meat with a 50/50 blend of NaCl and Potassium Citrate. I actually had an electrlyte drink that morning with added dextrose. My discharge papers say Accute Respiratory Alkalosis but I can't help but think that it was metabolic and due to my etreme insulin sensitivity and my sugar intake. I wasn't haveing diarrhea and only vomited once. Potassium being low makes me think that it wasn't Milk-Alkali Syndrome but all that icecream that I consumed makes me wonder. 3 weeks prior, my Potassium was 4.9.