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Termyn8or -> RE: Potassium was LOW- utoh (4/5/2010 11:13:45 PM)
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First of all, it's pretty damn hard to be low on potassium intake. Wheat and potatoes have a bunch, and that means bread, pasta, fries all that should have a good amount. Potassium is a mineral so it is not destroyed by cooking, but could be extracted by boiling.
It is more likely that you have a deficiency in one of potassium's co-components, which will cause your body to excrete it in the urine or perspiration. Speaking of which, drink and pissing too much or working out and sweating too much can bring about a deficiency. But if it happen via either one of those methods, potassium is not the only thing you lose. You lose a few other minerals at the same time, including sodium.
Unless you are living on meat, water and tootsie rolls you should not have a potassium deficiency. What is happening is that other nutrients required either to properly assimilate it or use it effectively in the body are missing or low in level. Twenty four minerals are recognized as essential to life, I suggest you familirize yourself with them. I have very very detailed information on about half of them I can send you. More than half of them in fact.
The same thing happens to calcium in the body. If the body can't use it then it just accumulates somewhere. Hear of gallstones and bladder stones ? Same thing happens to sodium along with some of the components of fat. So we have clogged arteries with this plaque. There is no such thing as bad cholesterol. It's just that the body for whatever reason cannot assimilate it and use it properly. That's probably some other component of whatever the body was going to use it for is missing.
Typically the body passes the unused minerals out via the urine. Now I am assuming that your blood potassium is low, but what of a urinalysis ? If you have alot of potassium in the urine I think I might be right, that your body is expelling it because for whatever reason cannot use it.
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