im eating potassium chloride like a pig. i may also be a damn fool for doing so. however, the more i take the better i feel and the better my body works.

i see that the Webmaster has included some past posts about K in forming this forum. however this is now not then and its a new day, for me anyway. curezoners are researchers. lets pour the coals to this subject. there is a lot thats not known and much that is thats not common. i am aware of a lot of good naturepaths who are up to snuff on this but still, lots of weird twists get in there, egos come into play, etc. i want accessible info. i want things explained to me, like denzel washington said, like im a 7 year old. and i damn sure dont want to be running to a high priced practitioner just to get my potassium levels right.

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/salud/salud_potassium.htm

this link was the first real eye opener i had to the subject. my recent experience has increased that effect a thousand-fold so i believe this is a good place to start.

i was drawn to joe vialls as a researcher and a Conspiracy theorist a long time ago. this article was written about the same time i came to curezone. just so people know, my heart attack had nothing to do with lack of potassium(not directly). it had nothing to do with diet. i wont bore people with that.

joe had heart problems according to this writing. he also eventually died of a heart attack. i think he was killed using one of those CIA sponsored heart attack guns or other means. that too is another story but i wanted it out there for when the trolls come bouncing along to discredit what i or he said.

the high points in this article are these, with my take on them.

1. mineral deficiencies cause disease states that can be corrected with supplementation of the deficient mineral. same with vitamins, but that can get tricky. minerals are more straightforward and this is about one of them, K.

2. joe says sodium is a toxin that depletes potassium. i think this is dead wrong. it is this info that really detracted me from the rest of the article so long ago because of the work of dr batmanghelidj and the Water Cure book he wrote. it just didnt make sense.

but it makes more sense to me now. i love adelle davis but she was old school and promoted nothing but cooked food. good info but not the definitive truth.

the truth is that like most other things in the body a balance is needed. the sodium pump needs potassium as well. i dont have the process clearly delineated in my mind but it has to do with the nature of the two elements as they act upon the body. ratios are important as well. it takes two potassium and three sodium to make the pump that moves water out of the cell to work.

again, im unclear what all takes place but some things are clear. sodium is easy to hold onto in the body. potassium is not. sodium takes physical activity and sweating to get rid of in significant amounts. you can practically sneeze and deplete potassium. "When we exercise and sweat, we lose potassium through urine." - JV yes, you lose sodium out the pores and potassium out the urinary tract. that shows a complete water cycle through the cell and the urine will be dark with the ash and metabolites of cell function. its the waste products of metabolism in the urine.

"Persons eating [sodium] salt as they wished excreted nine times more potassium than when their salt intake was limited, and human volunteers kept on diets deficient in potassium retained so much salt that they developed high blood pressure." Adelle Davis

i can definitely see this now. sodium IS toxic to those who are potassium deficient and inactive to the point of not sweating. Iodine is necessary for sweating as well, so low Iodine is bad for sodium intake as well. it is no wonder people get such good out of KI.

without potassium, sodium and water build up in the cells and water retention is experienced.

3. "Proper scientists agree the daily potassium requirements of an average adult lie between 3,200 and 4,100 milligrams, but the average potassium intake of Americans through the food chain is only 1,500 to 2,100 milligrams per day, representing an overall average shortfall of 1,850 milligrams." - JV

i dont know where these numbers come from but another sure sign that potassium deficiency is on purpose and PTB sanctioned is the changing numbers leading to confusion. we will visit this again later. the only number of potassium in diet i could find was from a foreign source and it was 2700mg. i doubt all the cardboard in the SAD has nearly that much potassium. [another subject for future discussion has to be digestion and absorption of potassium in todays diets/stomachs]

4. "passing a law restricting the potassium content of all alternative medicines to a mere 100 milligrams."

this is yet ANOTHER sign that this is a coordinated deficiency. not only are supplements limited, they come with warnings as well. then to add insult to injury, most supplements are 99mg. a good friend of mine pointed out that is a deliberate psyop - sending a subconscious message to a person that each single milligram of potassium is critical and potentially hazardous. this same tactic is used with Iodine as the RDA is given in micrograms in the amount that will prevent goiter, not the milligrams that will ensure a thriving hormonal and enzymatic state of affairs in the body.

5. the next portion discusses lethal injection of potassium chloride as opposed to the oral route. it is basically sound.

6. "examine the extraordinary case of the Yanomami Indians of South America.



The Yanomami were fortunate enough to escape the attention of western medical 'science' for thousands of years, and still shun it now. These fascinating people receive virtually no sodium [table salt] at all, but every adult consumes around 8,500 milligrams of potassium every day. They are incredibly fit and have no history whatever of arthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension [high blood pressure], angina or stroke."

Joe was smart here. instead of that crazy FDA number he got, he found this 8500mg that the Yanonami ingest daily and used that as a more correct number. it really is. of course, comparing these natives to modern sheeple is like comparing organic grapes to 9mm bullets. not the same things. more on that later. hint: the Yanonami are getting their calories and hydration in a much different way and environment than we have. everything about them is different in these ways so of course the body will react and present differently.

7. "The beginning of the end for obtaining essential minerals from fruit and vegetables happened in the middle of the 19th Century, when German chemist Baron Justus Von Liebig analyzed human and plant ash, and determined that nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium [NPK] were all the minerals plants needed."

this is the key to what we are talking about here and now regarding potassium supplementation. it is THE reason for reading this entire article. pay special attention to the extracts from the 1936 congressional record and the other references at the end of the article. these all need illuminating and exploring on their own.

the essence of this is good luck getting potassium from food. only a fool will tell you that you get enough potassium from diet. and even if you could, you cant hold onto it in this society unless you spend your day in a garden in your back yard meditating. EVERY DAY

8. this next i will just quote joe.

"Running in tandem with the depletion of potassium in fruit and vegetables during the 19th Century was an even bigger problem. Until then, salt of any kind had been so highly valued on most continents, that at one point in history it was actually used as money. In Europe, Asia and Africa most of the salt moved by the camel trains over thousands of miles was sylvite, otherwise known as potassium chloride.



Great chunks of sylvite were dotted along the trading routes for the beasts of burden to lick at, thereby restoring their electrolytes lost through sweating and other exertion. But when the railroads opened up America from east to west, they started carrying vast quantities of cheap salt produced in giant pans on the two coasts.



Unfortunately for Americans this was Sea Salt , comprised of 98.8% sodium chloride..."

9. the history of hidden malnourishment for fun and profit (and now just fun and death). "By the seventies, all meaningful references to serious mineral deficiencies had been removed from the curriculum, with medical students taught that patients could obtain all the minerals they needed from a diet rich in fruit and vegetables, although their university tutors knew this was a complete lie."

10. the Yanonami and the sodium pump.

again, joe goes into showing the findings of analyzing the biochemical makeup of these people and draws his own conclusions. those conclusions may be pertinent to the Yanonami but just dont translate to modern industrials. they may not pertain to anyone but rainforest folk. this is for the same reason you find certain critters only in the rain forest. they cant live anywhere else. the yanonami have adapted - like humans always do - to their environment. the world is covered with salt water. SODIUM water. its good for fish and people too.

remember - sodium is easy to hold on to, potassium is not. so the sylvite chunks for the pack animals along trade routes was necessary to get from ocean to ocean, probably for man and beast.

11. joe self experiments.

"With this in mind, I dissolved 4 grams [4,000 milligrams] of potassium chloride in water and fruit juice, slowly swallowed the lot, and then kept grimly repeating this process every eight hours. After about five days [or 60,000 milligrams] most of the pain had gone, but I was still incapable of truly coherent thought. It was not until I was well past the 110,000-milligram mark that my faculties truly returned, though by then I was so exhausted I could no longer write or use the computer.


Expressed in the same terms used by the FDA, in ten days I had slowly ingested 68.2 grams of dissolved potassium [68,200 milligrams], or sixty-eight times the maximum quantity permitted under American law. However, it should also be noted that this figure represents only five days of the maximum quantity administered by licensed American doctors to their hypertensive patients during the nineteen forties, before their research funding was mysteriously and abruptly withdrawn.



When viewed in the latter context, my actions do not seem unreasonable.


At the end of the ten day period, all of my 'unstable angina' pain and breathlessness had vanished completely, and along with it most of the 'essential hypertension' that plagued me for more than twenty-five years. Nowadays I take a daily maintenance dose of 2,000 milligrams potassium per day [3,200 milligrams of AR grade potassium chloride salt], plus 200 milligrams of magnesium orotate to minimize losses."

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in conclusion, i find this info to be vital and informative. i love the DIY nature of what joe did. i have used it as a template for myself with great effect.

nature does give us clues and i believe the dead sea is a good example. jesus said to his disciples that they were the salt of the earth. he may have been talking about sylvite but i suspect its dead Sea Salt .

average content of dead Sea Salt is:
magnesium chloride 31-35%
potassium chloride 20-28%
sodium chloride 3 - 8%
calcium 0.1 - 0.5%
bromide 0.3 - 0.6%
sulfates 0.05 - 0.2%

i now use this as the basis for the ratio of salt in my drinking water. i use 3 parts KCl to one part NaCl. its a hydrator for sure.

i think the daily intake for an adult male should be about 8-10 grams. about 2/3 of the weight of KCl is potassium. a teaspoon is a bout 10 grams of KCl or about 6 grams of potassium as a supplement. the more active you are, the more stress you encounter and factors yet to be discovered will tell us the best way to supplement, in what amounts, in what forms and how to gauge our progress.

as for myself, i am still inching my way up to full body load. as i add exercise to my lifestyle adjustments will surely be in order. i am looking forward to the journey.