POTASSIUM IN FOOD, to treat rheumatoid arthritis and heart

Someone who has rheumatoid arthritis and therefore has a bad deficiency in potassium [LaCelle] should be able to acquire the as much as the missing fifty or sixty thousand or so milligrams missing from the one hundred thirty to two hundred thousand normally present, which potassium is usually almost 2000 milligrams per kilogram of weight [Flink ] to 2,650 or so (depending on the weight of non fat tissue) again in only a few months or less and largely heal or cure any reversible damage (such as possibly the fundamental changes in potassium ion channels of arthritics [Trujillo] ) in only a few more weeks using foods in one’s diet alone. This should be possible even though arthritics tend to have a higher amount of the potassium secreting hormone, aldosterone, than normal people [Khetagurova] do. It is only necessary to select the right food and prepare it correctly. Large amounts of potassium are possible from food alone as some South American Indians receive over 8 thousand milligrams per day from their food [Oliver]. Potassium can be increased more quickly with potassium chloride supplements also, but unprocessed food is the safest way, and can rarely cause imbalances or dangerous surges where the kidneys are in reasonable health. When they are not, you should be under the care of a doctor. An additional reason is that potassium can not be absorbed efficiently in the presence of a magnesium deficiency probably partly because the body cells can not absorb potassium [Ryan, p100] {or at this site) and magnesium tends to be correlated with potassium intake. Furthermore, a magnesium deficiency increases aldosterone secretion, which hormone increases potassium excretion. Total body magnesium does not predict a deficiency, but blood serum must be low for that. If blood magnesium is 25% low, the enzymes depending on magnesium fail to operate adequately, including those responsible for its own absorption. [from a dead URL] See this site for an evaluation of magnesium.