Healthy Eating Guidelines : How to Treat Low Potassium Blood Levels

[ElPuchino]

Alot of those foods are high on the GI, which will raise your insulin and make you fat which will lead to other problems. Stick to spinach and tomatoes (raw) most amount of potassium with the lowest GI possible. Not a nutrition expert but I mean it's just a bit of common sense...

[bass109]

jesus christ is truth

[excavtrooper]

@bass109 , Shut up and go away, the bible does not give any food, health or clinical advice whatsoever, apart from don't eat pigs and kill the fatted calf......really bloody useful that. I don't remember any advice relating to cancer, diabetes, hypertension, CVD, etc, so just go talk to your thumbs and ask your god what he thinks about calcium deficiency.

[jesuisravi]

thanx

[shneevels]

Diuretics often remove potassium from your cells. Most people are low on it already, so you definitely need to supplement it when on a diuretic or you can get heart arrythmias, among other things. V8 low sodium blend.....works great!!!!

[7thicu2]

Thanks christy for the information on foods that provide potassium.

[shneevels]

Save yourself a lot of money and buy Low Sodium V8 Juice. One cup has 850 grams of potassium, almost three times as much as a banana. I use it all the time because I'm on a diuretic, and my blood always tests normal.

[Nikolette11]

@shneevels

I thought that when you are on a diuretic you should try to NOT have too much potassium in your diet, or is it the other way around?

[ALETHEIA8881]

@Nikolette11 it is the other way around,

the diuretic depletes potassium levels in the blood...

potassium on the other hand is a natural diuretic so if you have 4,000-5,000 milligrams in your diet every day you will have no need for a diuretic, potassium carries oxygen and water through your blood properly therefore dismissing edema, also it allows for peristaltic heath in the colon, diminishing constipation... peace love and health

[ImpermanentX]

I eat lots of tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, apricots, and spinach. I still have low potassium?

A hair mineral test showed my potassium as too low to measure. I have read that low potassium in hair mineral tests is not the same as low blood potassium?

Any further info on that topic would be great.

[agatka2007]

Maybe you have a problem with your kidneys and adrenals and you lose the mineral becasue of it.