Increase Potassium intake

[Pekelo]

New study. In short, eat more potassium, because the correct sodium-potassium ratio is more important than just measuring sodium intake alone. So you can eat more sodium as long as you eat potassium too.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-024-03350-x

Conclusion:

Our study demonstrates significant positive associations between daily sodium intake (within the range of sodium intake between 2,000 and 7,500 mg/d), the sodium–potassium ratio, and risk of CVD and overall mortality, with women having stronger sodium–potassium ratio-mortality associations than men, and with the meta-analysis providing compelling support for the CVD associations. These data may suggest decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake as means to improve health and longevity, and our data pointing to a sex difference in the potassium-mortality and sodium–potassium ratio-mortality relationships provide additional evidence relevant to current dietary guidelines for the general adult population.

Conversation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/path%3D%252Fr%252Fscience%252Fcomments%252F1bm8r1j%252F

 

[cesfx]

Watermelon and melons are great. A slice is about the same potassium of a banana, but it's easier to eat a few slices of melon than a few bananas.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach are also a simple potassium booster to have on a natural balanced diet.

 

[Pekelo]

3 things I came to realize with Potassium:

1. The government recommended dose was BS even after the recently decreased value to 3.4g. There was no freaking way to eat 4.5 g Potassium everyday and also no need for that.

2. The need for humans fluctuates wildly between people based on weight, lifestyle, climate. A 200 lbs physical worker living in the South needs 3-4 times more Potassium than a 100 lbs office worker in the North.

And according to this study:

3. You have to account for sodium intake. As long as the sodium-potassium pump is in balance, you are most likely OK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium–potassium_pump

 

[maxinger]

It looks very scary :

Every now and then there is still new discovery /findings.

Food writers must show evidence that eating / not eating this or that will lead to living beyond 100 years old.

I avoid reading such food articles. And I make my own judgment.

This is similar to trading.
Don't listen to trading related news blindly. Make your own judgment

Next new food discovery thing please

 

[Frederick Foresight]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-su... maintain,or treatment with certain medicines.

Potassium is needed to maintain good health. Although a balanced diet usually supplies all the potassium a person needs, potassium supplements may be needed by patients who do not have enough potassium in their regular diet or have lost too much potassium because of illness or treatment with certain medicines.

 

[Pekelo]

Food writers must show evidence that eating / not eating this or that will lead to living beyond 100 years old.

That is silly and illogical. If they show you that WITHOUT X you only live up to 65, wouldn't you take it?

Also an advice about taking it in pills, always take it with food/liquid so it is properly diluted and if you want to take a lot, spread it out during the day. But food is probably better and easier than taking 6-8 pills.

 

[maxinger]

That is silly and illogical. If they show you that WITHOUT X you only live up to 65, wouldn't you take it?

Also an advice about taking it in pills, always take it with food/liquid so it is properly diluted and if you want to take a lot, spread it out during the day. But food is probably better and easier than taking 6-8 pills.

As mentioned, I don't trust professional food writer's articles.
They are good at writing nonsense / conflicting reports.
They have to write so that they get paid by secret sponsors.


But I am keen to read articles about the centenarian lifestyle.

I don't take pills/Ultra-processed man-made food/health supplements.
I mostly eat my home-cooked, homemade food with no
toxic chemicals/additives/preservatives.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

In part because of the article I posted in this thread:

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/you-probably-dont-need-that-green-ag1-smoothie.378889/

I am considering reducing my intake of a multivitamin from everyday to 3or 4 times a week. Still giving it some thought. Same with the fish oil capsules.

And so, unless my bloodwork shows a deficiency, I am disinclined to add supplementary stuff. Just my current thinking.

 

[Pekelo]

my intake of a multivitamin from everyday to 3or 4 times a week.

The general opinion on multivitamins is that it is a waste of money. You should target the 2-3 vitamins that you think you are deficient in, that is more bang for your money and better healthwise.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

The general opinion on multivitamins is that it is a waste of money. You should target the 2-3 vitamins that you think you are deficient in, that is more bang for your money and better healthwise.

Right. So I am seeking a middle ground. Your point?