Anyone supplement potassium?

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More and more I am focussing on potassium. Everyone focusses on keeping sodium down and drinkign water to keep away bloat but you never hear about potassium to offset the sodium.

Over the last few days I have added 600mg potasium and a banana to my diet and def feel a bit tighter. Soon I am going to add potassium powder around 1.5g ed. The upper dose on potassium is pretty generous and yes obviously there are risks but in the western diet they are unlikely IMO because of the high salt and low potassium in most food.

Anyone use it for bloating or other reason?
 
It may be obvious for some of you but honestly if you read about it, its often hard to meet the daily value of 3500mg which is actually a minimum and probably not enough for atheletes (normal doses can range up to 10,000mg). Salt is EVERYWHERE but potassium... not so much.

I do know you can overdo it and also know that the bloat sodium provides can have pure strength benefits (believe poliquin wrote about it, that nutcase ha) but still seems worth it IMO... Lets hear anyone who knows about it or has tried.
 
justreading said:
It may be obvious for some of you but honestly if you read about it, its often hard to meet the daily value of 3500mg which is actually a minimum and probably not enough for atheletes (normal doses can range up to 10,000mg). Salt is EVERYWHERE but potassium... not so much.

I do know you can overdo it and also know that the bloat sodium provides can have pure strength benefits (believe poliquin wrote about it, that nutcase ha) but still seems worth it IMO... Lets hear anyone who knows about it or has tried.
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well yeah also makes sense, isnt that a part of the way creatine increases stregth is through the creatine bloat, of course the atp has more of an effect on stregth though.
 
Yep...unfortunately 99mg Potassium is all you can get, but I have been dropping 5 tablets, 2-3 times a day. Helped me lean out quite a bit.
 
dsade said:
Yep...unfortunately 99mg Potassium is all you can get, but I have been dropping 5 tablets, 2-3 times a day. Helped me lean out quite a bit.
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What about the powder? It says like 500ish per teaspoon. I planned on 3 of those a day. 99mg pills claim to be 3% D/v but the powder says one tsp is 15% so about 500mg should be right.
 
justreading said:
More and more I am focussing on potassium. Everyone focusses on keeping sodium down and drinkign water to keep away bloat but you never hear about potassium to offset the sodium.

Over the last few days I have added 600mg potasium and a banana to my diet and def feel a bit tighter. Soon I am going to add potassium powder around 1.5g ed. The upper dose on potassium is pretty generous and yes obviously there are risks but in the western diet they are unlikely IMO because of the high salt and low potassium in most food.

Anyone use it for bloating or other reason?
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Basically the best post in that thread by trauma seems to hint that supplementing would be good. never says it but maintaining a balance in the modern world would be hard without a supplement or very conscious effort to eat certain ways, EVERYTHING is friggin sodium loaded!
 
Also one of the main reasons I chose the Potassium salt of Pyruvate for DCP.
 
Just get a salt replacement or Miller salt for potassium from the grocery store. The half and half salt is decent -sodium and potassium.
 
I have my girlfriend's brother taking the potassium pills by Nature's Best. He has a lack of potassium in his diet which is making his current situation (AVM) much more intolerable.

I personally don't supplement with potassium, but have thought about it a lot. For a cooking agent I use "nu salt" which is potassium instead of sodium to flavor foods like salt. That's a great way to cut corners.
 
Ive been taking potassium for about a year..it helps make my joints feel better and the puffiness under my eyes has disappeared.
 
be careful with potassium. hyperkalemia can throw your heart into lethal aryhthmias. so unless you have blood work showing you got low potassium, dont just add too much of it.

sodium you have a lil more room because water and sodium are best friends.
 
ndnguy85 said:
sodium you have a lil more room because water and sodium are best friends.
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so if your consuming a lot of sodium in your diet..its alright if your drinking a load of water? It like balances it out?
 
Chub said:
so if your consuming a lot of sodium in your diet..its alright if your drinking a load of water? It like balances it out?
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No... I mean possibly in theory but not really. In order to clear sodium your body needs potassium BUT when it clears the eccess water it will pull some soduim with it.
 
i said that because when excess sodium moves into a cell, it pulls water along with it. so high sodium can be detrimental because of all the water it pulls in to the cell. it will cause the cells to burst at the worst causes of hypernatremia.

that's why when you eat a high sodium diet, you tend to hold more water or look more bloated.

potassium is crucial becuase of the sodium-potassium pump.

i mean at the hospital we got a bunch of protocols we have to follow to give someone potassium.
 
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