Successful Potassium Intake for Cramps/Twitches

[PrickLedPin]

Anyone have success with potassium?I read that some peoples "cured" their cramp/twitches with potassium intake.The problem is that the recommended intake is very high @ 4700 mg a day!In winter it is quite impossible to reach that level with food.For example a banana is about 400 mg. We would need about 12 banana a day!An the only one with a lot of potassium is beans!This is a listwhite beans, boiled 250 ml (1 tasse), 1 189 mgpotatoes with skin, oven cooked, 1 medium (175 g), 1 081 mg.... then it drops quite rapidly ...Banana, 1 medium (120 g), 422 mg-----------------If you buy supplement you will found only pills of 100 mg max, so we would need a LOT!-----------------This summer i was a lot better ... and eating many time a week green beans ...-----------------Example:---------------- )

 

[simonw00]

all i know is that too much potassium in the blood is dangerous to the heart so i'd seek advice from a doc before taking such high doses of potassium. all the best, simon

 

[TM27]

If it's hard getting a lot of potassium with food, buy a potassium supplement.

 

[seadragonsovereign]

I am also trying a potassium supplement (two per day, 99 mg each), but it doesn't seem to have much effect - just like a lot of other supplements I have tried (magnesium, though I need to look into the various types of magnesium as another recent post suggests; vitamin B complexes, and a inositol, hawthorn berry extract, passion flower, l-carnitine and valerian root). As an aside, if anyone has had any luck with these or any others, I would be appreciative to know. The only thing that seems to work at all for me is an over the counter drug klonopin.