I’m gonna ask a question that sounds a little dumb, but do blood levels being in range necessitate an optimal level of potassium?
I could imagine your body might prioritize potassium allocation in certain ways such that potassium might be allocated to processes reflected in blood values before being allocated to processes that would help optimize performance?
(Tl;dr are blood levels a perfect index for potassium intake? Would doubling potassium intake for example be reflected in a doubled blood value once some time has passed for the body to stabilize?)
That’s why we have RDAs in the first place. No rickets or scurvy in the population is a good idea, so it’s the minimum to prevent diseases. It’s not supposed to be optimized, especially with athletes in mind.
It’s also one of the reasons people recommend rinsing your rice before cooking - in the US rice enrichment is mandatory since poor people eat a lot of rice, but all that powdery stuff fucks up cooking.
@SkyzykS Zinc is included in the enriched rice. I like your method better.
98% of body potassium is in the cells, not the blood. Blood levels are taken because this is easier to measure. But also because abnormal blood levels (a few standard deviations outside the bell curve) correlate well with clinical symptoms like fatigue or problems with heart rhythm.
But this says what normal potassium levels are. No one really knows what levels are optimum, nor need this be the same for everyone.
The Mediterranean Diet said to be healthy has much more potassium than the standard American diet FWIW.
No. That article from harvard has a bunch of great information in it about the role of sodium and potasium and how they regulate intracellular and extracellular fluid though.
I feel it’s also worth appreciating that the soil our food/the food our livestock eats grows in is pretty mineral depleted due to so much monocropping, and most of us don’t drink from natural waterways/streams, which used to be a way to get in minerals as well.
So the tinschlager thing is a Reno 911 reference to Deputy Jr. I couldn’t find a clip of that exact skech, but the show is hilarious, so someone else might find it. And if you do, please post it.
So on to prison wine. You steal a few packs of sugar from the cafeteria and then a few slices of bread. It takes a few days to do this. Save up your comissary money during this time. Find a way to aquire a few plastic bags. Let the bread get moldy - white mold is good, other colors are bad. Use that commissary money to buy a bunch of juice when your bread is good to go. Bonus points if you figured out a way to save your fruit cups or buy them. I’ve heard about people using ketchup packets, moldy socks, but I never saw it.
Double your bags and bury it in the sand where it’s not paved over in a walkway. I was in Florida, so you might need to get creative in other climates. Wait a week or so, make sure to step on the spot to see how much it balloons and keep it from looking suspicious. You can feel when it stopped fermenting.
Here’s the key part though. Do not fucking drink it. Use it to barter, save the solids too, some of the guys with missing teeth like to eat them. But the nurses are going to know someone made a batch because a handfull of guys will get sick and nurses aren’t stupid. They just give you an antacid and you have to sweat it out overnight.
The old Allegheny county jail, the dungeon- had the best freakin cake. Not even because everything else sucked. It was a free standing, on its own, very good cake.
. It was just such a strange phenomenon. In the scummy, most violent pit of despair, there it was-wonderful cake. Nice sized pieces too.
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. It was just such a strange phenomenon. In the scummy, most violent pit of despair, there it was-wonderful cake. Nice sized pieces too.