Is Potassium more important than Magnesium for our health? It's the only mineral that..

I take potassium as supplement because I take water pills for heart condition.

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watch his latest but here is one on potassium chloride


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^^ He's right you know. Read it again.

Potassium chloride is REAL salt. They pawn sodium chloride off on us for the higher a profit margin.

The same goes for Iodine - they tell you they add a stupid little bit to table salt, but do they really put any in at all? Chances are you're getting way more fluoride instead which will fuck you up.

No, it’s not. Pure potassium explodes on contact with water. You want potassium compound salts. [link to www.statmx.com]

It's easy to get potassium from foods. There are a lot of foods with more potassium than bananas.

Avocados
Potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Beans
Melons
Tomatoes
Butternut squash
Beets

You're more likely to be deficient in magnesium than potassium.

Eat a banana once in a while.

Every cell and every food has potassium in them. No one gets low on potassium unless they take a diuretic or have chronic diarrhea. Too much potassium--from renal failure or muscle rot or intentional excess intake can be very dangerous

More important? No dumbass... They all work together you need a balance...

Avacados have more potassium than bananas, or so I've heard.

No salt is not pure potassium.. it is potassium chloride with taste enhancers and I have used it sometimes when its cheaper than NOW KCL. or the health foods stores are low on the NOW product.

I run a genetically low K.. you can take back that statement. I have to supplement with it.. or my heart works like absolute shit.

You can get both tested in case you are confused.. biggest symptom of low mag is restless legs.

I can't eat 3 dozen bananas a day thankyou.

but its so cheap to buy NOW KCL

but that is probably NOT KCL

when my potassium level drops.. since 50 years ago now... its genetic... my heart does what I fondly call the "two step" 2 beats and then one PVC then two beats again and one PVC.... it grows slower and slower into the dangerous realm if I do not get some. Necessary to life. Mine anyway.

An Adult needs around 4700mg of potassium a day.

They passed a law making the pills only 3% of the RDA so you don't harm yourself.

Too much salt intake will deplete potassium.

On a long fast it is good to add potassium to your water (see snake juice) links in prior posts.

You can buy bulk potassium from "Bulk Supplements" they are sold on amazon also.

I take potassium Bicarbonate when I need it.

Magnesium is important, but won't kill you if you take a bit too much, you will just get the runs.

Over time it is important to balance your vitamins and minerals.

Most have ones that balance them-- like Copper / zinc-- really bad to have too much or too little of most vitamins and minerals.

I don't know if this helps at all OP, but this is what I have found related to my own supplementation.

From what I have read, the reason a potassium pill is only 100mg is because there is a real risk of creating a ulcer in the stomach if you take a pill larger than 100mg and it sits against the side of your stomach in a concentrated form for too long without being diluted or digested. You can however, take potassium in other ways and in much higher doses safely. I've taken potassium chloride, potassium sulfate, potassium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, etc. at one time or another in up to 1,000mg+ at a time doses without issue as long as I mixed it with water, took it with food, dissolved it in water first, etc. I did it that way mainly just to be safe, and to avoid throwing off my internal electrolyte balance from flushing my body with just one electrolyte too fast. If my electrolyte balance gets thrown off too fast I get muscle cramps.

Yes, potassium is used to kill people as others have mentioned, but that is a direct injection of potassium into a vein not potassium that is taken orally and digested. Two totally different things.

All that being said, I don't personally take potassium anymore because I always felt worse while taking it, no matter what amount I took. I always ended up feeling very cold and low on energy, even at small doses. I ended up figuring out through trial and error that my body was severely deficient in magnesium and somewhat deficient in calcium, so taking potassium was actually just making the symptoms of those deficiencies worse. Now that I have been taking a lot more magnesium and some supplemental calcium for a couple years, I don't really feel like anything related to my electrolytes is out of balance anymore so I haven't tried potassium again.

The gov has capped potassium at .1 for our own good, haha, I take up to around 40 of them suckers a day to ward off high BP, and sleep like a baby, and remain totally calm, works better than anything I've tried.

Little side note a side effect of low potassium is anger and rage for no apparent reason, bad neck pains, etc. You will be very calm on potassium.

Eat bananas and get diabetes. Awful suggestion.
There’s more potassium in a pork chop than a banana, no joke.

What is the name of your genetic condition?

this is true. I told my doctor I take a full dose of magnesium daily and she immediately tested me and I've been doing this for years and just told her and my levels were normal.

you need 1:4 ratio supposedly of sodium to potassium.

i eat a shit ton of apricots when i need to flush sodium out

They have to cap potassium. If they give you a nice big dose, your heart will stop.

fck the FDA

You got it backwards. You need a gram or so of magnesium. You have to be careful with Potassium since it involves heart health. Too much potassium can disrupt your heart beat and maybe damage your kidneys.

You can only buy high-dose potassium supplements with a prescription.

That is because taking too much potassium can stop your heart. This is obviously unlikely from eating food since you have to eat so much to get the potassium.

If you are potassium deficient they will prescribe special time release potassium pills and recheck your electrolights periodically so you don't over dose.