Potassium strengthens muscles,heart and nerves
How much potassium do we need and how easy it is to lose it?
In the human body there is approximately 100-150 g of potassium. However, intense exercise, sweating and slimming, acute diarrhea, including those resulting from the use of strong laxatives, vomiting, prolonged stress, some drugs cause a very large loss of potassium from the body. For example, a large physical effort combined with abundant sweating can lead to a loss of up to 2-4 g of potassium once! Meanwhile, this bio-element is essential for the life of every cell. If it is as much as it needs, the muscles, heart and nervous system work reliably. If potassium in the diet or due to the above-mentioned reasons, there are too few characteristic deficiencies and health disorders.
Without enough potassium ...
- impaired nerve impulse conduction to the muscles, weakness of nervous reflexes, and the deepest threat is the biggest threat when the deficit of the bioelement is deepening. cardiac arrhythmia
- the strength of muscle contraction decreases and weakness occurs, and when the deficit of the bio-element grows, painful cramps may occur
Potassium stimulates the heart.
Potassium is responsible for transmitting impulses to the heart. The right amount of potassium determines the stimulation of the heart to intense contractions during exercise and protects their regularity.
Potassium strengthens the nerves.
Potassium revives the action of every nerve cell. When it is as much as needed, it enables efficient guidance of impulses in the long chains of cells of the nervous system. Potassium deficiency is a delayed and disturbed reaction to stimuli, threatening, among others, arrhythmias, hearing disorders, etc. The correct level of potassium in the blood strengthens and "preserves" the nervous system. It protects its reliability in supporting the most important human life functions.
How do we know that he is missing?
Weakness, fatigue without reason and delayed response to stimuli are the most common symptoms of increasing potassium deficiency in the body. Later, muscle aches and pains may occur, especially those that arouse from sleep at night. The symptoms of a significant shortage are dizziness and headaches, pressure drop, palpitations, and sleep problems. The deepening potassium deficit in the blood can cause serious cardiac arrhythmias and difficulty in breathing.
It stabilizes and protects the body.
Protection of the proper level of potassium in the blood guarantees acid-alkaline balance (with sodium) and good regulation of the water level in the body, which is the basis of prevention against heart disease. Our body, if it is healthy itself, regulates the level of the element in the blood. If we eat properly, then it is not lacking in normal conditions. If potassium is too much, it is quickly excreted in urine, faeces and then.
Who is exposed to potassium deficiency?
Virtually everyone, because the diet is usually low in potassium, is not able to help in the restoration of its easily exhausting supplies. Also food producers deepen the deficit of the bioelement - sifting bread, meats, smoked meats, canned meat, etc. A large excess of sodium from table salt caused by the consumption of these foods displaces potassium from the body.
How much potassium do we need?
The daily demand for potassium oscillates around 1-2 grams. This demand increases during high physical exertion, for example in physically hard working people and athletes practicing intensive training. It has been observed that already 4-hour sports training contributes to the expulsion of about 800 mg of potassium. When the effort takes place on a hot day, when we sweat intensively in the sauna, the potassium loss can be much larger.
Health problems increase the demand for potassium
Excessive excretion of potassium through the digestive tract causes vomiting, diarrhea (including abuse of laxatives), excessive weight loss of a low-calorie diet, starvation. A significant reduction is also caused by fever in cold disease and chronic psychological stress. In addition, potassium should be taken every day when we regularly take diuretic drugs used in hypertensive disease, as well as when we use glucocorticoids in asthma, allergies or rheumatic disease.
Your path to harmony ...
It is best to consume natural products rich in potassium in the form of juices or fruit and vegetables raw, 4 times a day in an amount of 1 kg per day. However, in the above-described situations of increased physical effort, excessive sweating in hot weather, or taking into account the potassium deficiency in the soil and in the diet - supplementation is advisable. The most safe form of supporting the diet in potassium are natural preparations, which the body best absorbs.
ed. Edward Ozga Michalski, MA
Prophylactic treatment recommendations:
It is best to consume natural products rich in potassium in the form of juices or fruit and vegetables raw, 4 times a day in an amount of 1 kg per day. However, in the above-described situations of increased physical effort, excessive sweating in hot weather, or taking into account the potassium deficiency in the soil and in the diet - supplementation is advisable. The most safe form of supporting the diet in potassium are natural preparations, which the body best absorbs.
