My pork shoulder and red potatoes is God tier. The saurkraut is just icing on the strength cake.
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After reading Dan John apples are the only fruit I consume daily in between meals. I’ve found that plus the daily dose of sauerkraut and/or kefir has been magic for my guts.
I used to consume medjool dates like they were going out of season before playing rugby. I think your anti banana post may have inspired me to try swapping to dates for a couple of weeks for when I actually eat pre workout.
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I’m seeing all this potassium hype. I’ve been on the potassium citrate grind for years. I take 40% of the DV every day but I’m wondering if I should aim for a particular mg amount of supplementation per kg of BW?
I feel like hyperalkemia is basically impossible unless I’m consuming several times the DV of potassium in supplements right?
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Since we’re on the subject of Potassium… is it just me or is the DV recommendation suspiciously high? I mean, you have to go through SO much spinach and potatoes daily to get this, that there’s no way cavemen were doing this.
Daily recommendation is 4700mg starting at age 4… means you need:
2lbs potatoes daily
or
2lbs spinach daily
*or some other unreasonably high potassium food at high volume.
There’s just no way cavemen (who couldn’t farm) could have such high density foods readily available at all times. I don’t see how we could have developed into a species requiring this much.
So is the potassium DV recommendation a load of BS or…?
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It’s extrapolated from the composition in breast milk, then adjusted based on average weight of adults.
Organ meats. They’re high in potassium, liver especially.
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I feel like that’s even more suspect now.
That’s not how they come up with all these numbers, is it..?
Scientist: just eat what babies eat, bro.
Me: Babe (wife), can I see you over here for a minute?
It is pretty rare for people with good kidneys and not on diuretics or heart medication to have abnormal blood levels of potassium that cause clinical symptoms. I wouldn’t stress that much about this; if you already eat a variety of dairy, fruits and vegetables and other foods. Lots of labels don’t list potassium.
Your doctor checks potassium levels with usual routine bloodwork. The “amount needed” depends on age and gender. If you have not been told your levels are low I wouldn’t sweat it.
The 4700mg used on American labels is on the high end. But this value is out of date - current recommendations are 3400mg for men and 2600mg for women.(see below). But if truly concerned, I guess you could add NoSalt, a sodium free product made from potassium salts. Do you need to? No.
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I hadnt considered that.
Instead of eating what babies eat, just eat the babies!
Problem solved.
Just don’t shake them first.
Potassium:
That has changed a little. And if things are hunky dory, one could just eat at replacement levels.
With the way our bodies process sodium and potassium, the levels don’t go up or down very fast. Its more of a slow taper.
I err on the side of getting a good bit in while keeping sodium as low as possible, which has worked out pretty well. I’ve been instructed by my Dr. as of my last check up to discontinue use of a beta-blocker.
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How much zinc should I be getting?
Not much.
I’ve welded on galvanized steel and gotten pretty sick from it.
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How sick?
Fumes made you queasy?
Or did you absorb toxic amounts and have to start counting half-lifes?
I’ve seen that you should be careful because it accumulates in the body, but I don’t want to take so little that it’s ineffective.
More like a flu. Only lasted about 24 hrs. It wouldn’t usually be a problem with a fan to draw it away but I was doing the insides of big truck boxes. And forgot my respirator.
I think 12 mg./day is the recommendation for adult males, with the upper limit of 40 mg.
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Galvanized is fine until you start melting it.
Damn dude, unexpected dangers at every turn!
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Its such a pain in the ass. Boils and pops, blows the weld everywhere. Just totally sucks.
I’d been warned that it was nasty in an industrial hygiene part of class, but products gotta ship!
I’m late in on this one, and I think the answer was pretty much covered, but my two cents…
It’s really not too tough to meet potassium needs at either the higher level or the adjusted level. That stuff is in everything… Meats, dairy, fruits and veggies, starches. If you’re eating a diet with good variety it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re getting what you need.
Potassium isn’t one of the nutrients that ends up on the lists of “nutrients people don’t get enough of”. The only times I’ve had folks or have seen folks not getting enough is in the case of athletes (sweat loss), during the summer in folks that spend a lot of time outside (again sweat), and people on super restrictive diets (keto in particular…).
So, all that to say, potassium isn’t really something I worry about for most people.
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