- Potassium: Sources, Deficiencies, Overdose, Treatment More
Too little potassium can lead to serious health consequences, but too much can also cause temporary or long-term health problems Learn how potassium affects your health
- Potassium: Benefits Side Effects
Potassium is an essential mineral that acts as an electrolyte It helps your muscles contract, balances fluid in your body and helps offset sodium
- Potassium - Wikipedia
In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with anions to form salts) In nature, potassium occurs only in ionic salts
- Potassium - Health Professional Fact Sheet
The total amount of potassium in the adult body is about 45 millimole (mmol) kg body weight (about 140 g for a 175 pound adult; 1 mmol = 1 milliequivalent [mEq] or 39 1 mg potassium) [3] Most potassium resides intracellularly, and a small amount is in extracellular fluid [2-4]
- What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Enough Potassium - Health
Keeping your electrolytes in balance by getting enough potassium is important for preventing some of the negative effects of excess sodium in your diet
- 7 Foods With More Potassium Than a Banana, Per a Dietitian
Discover surprising foods with more potassium than bananas—like avocados, sweet potatoes, and salmon—to boost heart and muscle health
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