Guest guest Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 The FDA requires no Potassium supplement be stronger than 99 mg. They do this because people on some prescription drugs need to avoid large doses of Potassium. Why limit the rest of us? One more FDA rule which makes no sense. One large banana has close to 500 mg of Potassium. I make up a blend of Potassium Chloride with Sea salt to give me both Sodium and Potassium. I also take 6 Potassium tablets daily. I would never use the grossly overpriced prescription Potassium. Alobar On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, A <ajw27703 wrote: > Hi all, new group member here, and hope someone can answer what is probably a basic question. > > I know the recommended potassium amount is 3.5 or 4 grams a day. If someone has an Rx for a 10mEq tablet, , I think that means it's more or less .01 * 40 grams, or about .4 grams of K. So far so good. > > That's about 10% of the RDA. But a little can of V8 says it has 16% of the RDA. Have I made a mistake somewhere? A can of V8 is a lot better than a pill! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 , Alobar <Alobar wrote: > > The FDA requires no Potassium supplement be stronger than 99 mg. > They do this because people on some prescription drugs need to avoid > large doses of Potassium. Why limit the rest of us? One more FDA > rule which makes no sense. One large banana has close to 500 mg of > Potassium. > > I make up a blend of Potassium Chloride with Sea salt to give me both > Sodium and Potassium. I also take 6 Potassium tablets daily. > > I would never use the grossly overpriced prescription Potassium. > > Alobar > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, A <ajw27703 wrote: > > Hi all, new group member here, and hope someone can answer what is probably a basic question. > > > > I know the recommended potassium amount is 3.5 or 4 grams a day. If someone has an Rx for a 10mEq tablet, , I think that means it's more or less .01 * 40 grams, or about .4 grams of K. So far so good. > > > > That's about 10% of the RDA. But a little can of V8 says it has 16% of the RDA. Have I made a mistake somewhere? A can of V8 is a lot better than a pill! > > > The RDA for K in the US is a couple of grams, it's about twice that in Europe. Turns out there are lots of foods even better than a banana for K. I agree re the Rx for the stuff, I don't know what the substrate is, but some of the side effects even for the 10 mEq level are serious. I still would like to know if my analysis in the first post is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 It's the same way with salt. Over the last 20 years the salt content in food and even in recipes has been reduced to the bare minimum and I believe that it is causing healthy people to have health problems from lack of salt. Lack of salt results in loss of potassium too by the way but the FDA will never tell you that because they would rather have you take some drug by big pharma that covers the symptoms that you have from lack of salt. I don't eat any processed foods so I have to take about three vegetable caplets full of sea salt a day or more in order to feel right and not have a racing heart and ringing in my ears not to mention cramps in my calves. I also drink a lot of water. It's no uncommon for me to drink a gallon a day or more. I always drink at least three quarts though. I also have low blood pressure even with taking these salt capsules that I make for myself. I believe that they should not have lowered the salt content in all the foods just because of a few people who are told to eat a low salt diet. In fact, I don't believe that they did it for a few people who are told to eat low salt. I think they did lower the salt in everything so that healthy people will have weird symptoms that nobody knows what it is, and then some young hot shot MD will prescribe them big pharmas antidepressants or some restless leg syndrome drug. ________________________________ Alobar <Alobar Saturday, 19 September, 2009 6:33:44 Re: << >> Potassium! The FDA requires no Potassium supplement be stronger than 99 mg. They do this because people on some prescription drugs need to avoid large doses of Potassium. Why limit the rest of us? One more FDA rule which makes no sense. One large banana has close to 500 mg of Potassium. I make up a blend of Potassium Chloride with Sea salt to give me both Sodium and Potassium. I also take 6 Potassium tablets daily. I would never use the grossly overpriced prescription Potassium. Alobar On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, A <ajw27703 > wrote: > Hi all, new group member here, and hope someone can answer what is probably a basic question. > > I know the recommended potassium amount is 3.5 or 4 grams a day. If someone has an Rx for a 10mEq tablet, , I think that means it's more or less .01 * 40 grams, or about .4 grams of K. So far so good. > > That's about 10% of the RDA. But a little can of V8 says it has 16% of the RDA. Have I made a mistake somewhere? A can of V8 is a lot better than a pill! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 , lynnzy <lynntulumello wrote: > > It's the same way with salt. Over the last 20 years the salt content in food and even in recipes has been reduced to the bare minimum and I believe that it is causing healthy people to have health problems from lack of salt. Lack of salt results in loss of potassium too by the way but the FDA will never tell you that because they would rather have you take some drug by big pharma that covers the symptoms that you have from lack of salt. I don't eat any processed foods so I have to take about three vegetable caplets full of sea salt a day or more in order to feel right and not have a racing heart and ringing in my ears not to mention cramps in my calves. I also drink a lot of water. It's no uncommon for me to drink a gallon a day or more. I always drink at least three quarts though. I also have low blood pressure even with taking these salt capsules that I make for myself. > I believe that they should not have lowered the salt content in all the foods just because of a few people who are told to eat a low salt diet. In fact, I don't believe that they did it for a few people who are told to eat low salt. I think they did lower the salt in everything so that healthy people will have weird symptoms that nobody knows what it is, and then some young hot shot MD will prescribe them big pharmas antidepressants or some restless leg syndrome drug. > ________________________________ > Alobar <Alobar > > Saturday, 19 September, 2009 6:33:44 > Re: << >> Potassium! > > > The FDA requires no Potassium supplement be stronger than 99 mg. > They do this because people on some prescription drugs need to avoid > large doses of Potassium. Why limit the rest of us? One more FDA > rule which makes no sense. One large banana has close to 500 mg of > Potassium. > > I make up a blend of Potassium Chloride with Sea salt to give me both > Sodium and Potassium. I also take 6 Potassium tablets daily. > > I would never use the grossly overpriced prescription Potassium. > > Alobar > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, A <ajw27703 > wrote: > > Hi all, new group member here, and hope someone can answer what is probably a basic question. > > > > I know the recommended potassium amount is 3.5 or 4 grams a day. If someone has an Rx for a 10mEq tablet, , I think that means it's more or less .01 * 40 grams, or about .4 grams of K. So far so good. > > > > That's about 10% of the RDA. But a little can of V8 says it has 16% of the RDA. Have I made a mistake somewhere? A can of V8 is a lot better than a pill! > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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