Re: the potassium in potassium iodide and iodine

If you need to take more potassium, you need to find out what kind from the person who recommended this. In nature, potassium is not found unbound. I'm taking potassium gluconate, for example. Just a typical supplement.

Many potassium salts are very important, and include, potassium; bromide, carbonate, chlorate, chloride, chromate, cyanide, dichromate, hydroxide, iodide, nitrate, sulfate. So, if you are taking potassium iodide, I suppose the question is how is the body going to use it. When it is bound to iodide, is it going to have to go on the ride with iodide? If so, will the potassium ever get to the part of your system where you need it? I suspect that it will just go along for the ride with iodide. Sorry. I don't know either.

See what I mean here:

# Potassium oxide, best known as potash, is primarily used in fertilizer.

# Potassium chloride is used as a substitute for table salt and is also used to stop the heart in executions by lethal injection. It is also used in fertilizer.

# Potassium nitrate is used in gunpowder.

# Potassium carbonate is used in glass manufacture