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Hot off the press! My latest article published on HormonesMatter with a ton of extremely important details on potassium.
This article is based on an email discussion I had with an emergency hospital cardiologist friend. It is written in a Q and A style with additional thoughts after each of the doctor’s responses. This article is a bit more medically challenging and revealing than what I wrote before on potassium.
Potassium is an essential but very dangerous mineral!
Comments are welcome, as always, and are moderated for appropriateness
Angela
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Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist focusing on chronic pain--migraine in particular--physiology, electrolyte homeostasis, nutrition, and genetics. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention, and treatment without the use of medicine. As a forever migraineur from childhood, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself. She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic variations of all voltage dependent channels, gates, and pumps (chanelopathy) that modulate electrolyte mineral density and voltage in the brain. In addition, insulin and glucose transporters, and several other variants, such as MTHFR variants of B vitamin methylation process and many others are different in the case of a migraineur from the general population.
Migraineurs are glucose sensitive (carbohydrate intolerant) and should avoid eating carbs as much as possible. She is working on her hypothesis that migraine is a metabolic disease.
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The article is very interesting! It leads me to ask: what is the difference between VT, addressed in the article, and SVT (supraventricular tachycardia). I was admitted to an ER with heart rate of 220 which lasted over 2 hours, and was diagnosed with SVT (or PSVT). I have these spells from time to time but they usually abate in 15-20 minutes. This one required 2 failed attempts with adenosine and finally success with diltiazem (cardizem). It runs in the family.
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Tcjudi, from what I understand, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia have slightly different causes–I am not a heart expert by any means. VT is rare and is associated with an electrical issue–that causes the heart to beat. If I remember correctly, there are 4 nerves that have to beat in sync to have a well-functioning heart with proper heart rate.
If one of the nerves is out of sync, it may give a PVC, which is a premature heart beat before the actual heart beat. It may have irregularity in all, this is what I suspect VT is and in which case the lower chambers (there are 2 lower and 2 upper chambers) beat faster than they should. This condition needs an electrical reset from what I can see. And SVT is very common. It is similar to VT but this is not dangerous–I am uncertain what the differences are other than SVT can be caused by non-heart issues whereas VT cannot be. Non-heart factors are anxiety, for example.
None of these conditions warrant the use of supplemental potassium.
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Wow that’s interesting! I assumed that healthy and non-overinsulinised kidneys would simply excrete any excess. My breakfast usually consists of a thickly buttered oatcake with smoked salmon on which I sprinkle some Low-Salt to be on the safe side. Then I use copious salt on my meal(s). I also supplement with,magnesium as it appears to be lacking in much food. When I’ve had my electrolytes checked they have always some back spot in the middle of the range – except once when all my numbers were off which the doctor put down to dehydration
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Well, if you eat oat cakes with smoked salmon, you eat zero potassium, so in this case it may not be that harmful. Otherwise Low-salt can be harmful. The electrolytes need to be in homeostatic balance to within a narrow pressure range–as in the article–and that’s independent from your kidneys’ health! Some of these nutrients–like magnesium and calcium–in the electrolyte have little meaning because they are not representative of what’s in you cells.
Sodium and potassium are different, because they are participating in the cell’s respiration. So when one goes in, the other comes out, and all cells differ in timing. So, on average, a blood test will give you the correct reading or the average amount, knowing that, on average, half your cells will have sodium and half potassium out of it and there is a constant motion also because of the refractory period. Not so with some of the other minerals, like calcium and magnesium. So do supplement magnesium. Everyone should.
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“…….our modern food environment is not as healthy as it should be and we are at risk of potentially missing some minerals or vitamins from our diet……..” Hmmm, could there be a (secret) alliance between the food and pharmaceutical industry? 😛
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😉 I would rephrase: “could there NOT be a (secret) alliance between the food and pharmaceutical industry”
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Ay mi madre dushi 💀
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dushi??? Google didn’t know that word 😉
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Dushi ta un palabra den nos idioma Papiamento 😚 y ta nifica na Ingles……..sweet 💛 💚 💙 💜
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“Dushi ta a word in the Papiamento language ta and ta nifica na English” 😉 Google can use some help in translation.. lol.. I suppose Dushi has no equivalent in English? 😉
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Like I wrote, “dushi” translated to English in general means “sweet”. But, depending on the context it is used, it can also mean “sweetheart” 💗 or “yummy” 🍲
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Interesting word 😉
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Yes they tell you to eat the wrong diet so they can prescribe all the antidotes. Ker-ching!
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exactly!
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