What Are The Benefits Of Taking Potassium?

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Potassium gluconate has a high absorption rate of 94%, making it suitable for "quick" demands such as leg cramps or blood pressure control.

Potassium is an essential mineral and electrolyte involved in heart function, muscle contraction, and water balance. A high intake may help reduce high blood pressure, salt sensitivity, and the risk of stroke. Additionally, it may protect against osteoporosis and kidney stones.

It helps your nerves to function and muscles to contract. It helps your heartbeat stay regular. It also helps move nutrients into cells and waste products out of cells. A diet rich in potassium helps to offset some of sodium's harmful effects on blood pressure.

The more potassium you eat, the more sodium you lose through urine. Potassium also helps to ease tension in your blood vessel walls, which helps further lower blood pressure. Increasing potassium through diet is recommended in adults with blood pressure above 120/80 who are otherwise healthy.

Potassium out of all the electrolytes is the one that we need in very large quantities. We need 4,700 mg to 6,000 mg every single day and that is equivalent to 7 to 10+ cups of salad or vegetables every single day.

Why we need potassium? There is something in the body called a sodium-potassium pump. It is built in a little protein connected to an enzyme, it forms a whole enzyme in the surface of your cells and you will have between 8,000 to 30million of this little tiny pumps and they are little generators that generate electricity to allow things to go through the cell so it takes a lot of energy, in fact, the energy of 1/3 of your diet goes to running those pumps.

You also have another pump in the stomach called the hydrogen potassium ATPs, it is basically another pump that is built with a potassium that allows you to create stomach acid to help you digest. These pumps are also in the muscles, nervous systems and the pumps in the nervous system used about 60% of your body’s chloric intake of energy.

In other words, these pumps are really critically important in exchanging nutrition, glucose, amino acids, and other minerals to allow them to transport in other cells. Potassium is essential for building the pumps to allow these functions right here, they charge the cell electrically, so your cells have a certain voltage to allow things to work and go in and out of the cell to create different energy. In fact, your energy that you have that controls your metabolism is controlled partly by these little pumps. So it charges the cell electrically, it gives you energy. It helps the muscle contract and relaxes because it allows calcium to go into the cell as well. It controls the transport of calcium.

Low potassium is one of the number one deficiencies. However, it most often goes undetected. When you take a blood test, it simply doesn’t show up. Why? Because the majority of potassium resides inside the cell. You have to be very deficient in potassium for it to show up on a blood test.

The best way to find out if you have a potassium deficiency is to look at the symptoms.
Here are some of the common symptoms of a potassium deficiency:
• High blood pressure
• Muscle cramps
• Sugar cravings
• Constipation
• High insulin
• Muscle weakness
• Abnormal heartbeat
• Insomnia
• Anxiety

The need for insulin actually decreases when you have enough potassium.

What causes low potassium? There are numerous reasons you might have low potassium levels. Here are some of the most common ones:
• Vomiting
• Poor diet
• Ketosis
• Diuretic
• Diabetes
• High cortisol
• Excess H2O
• Sugar

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