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Eating foods high in potassium and low in sodium can also help prevent kidney disease and heart problems caused by hypertension.
Testing Potassium Levels
The body stores potassium in the cells and uses the blood serum mostly for potassium transport.
Functions of Potassium- Regulation of pressure between the inside and outside of cells. With inadequate potassium, cellular wastes are not efficiently transported into the extracellular spaces and carried away. Toxic material is left to accumulate in the cell can cause premature cell death.
- Conversion of blood sugar into glycogen for storage in the liver and muscles. Inadequate glycogen storage leads to physical and mental fatigue.
- Maintaining proper pH balance of blood.
- Maintaining proper body water balance
- Stimulating insulin production
- Maintaining digestive enzyme function and efficiency
- Maintaining optimal nerve and muscle function
- Relaxing muscle contraction in balance to calcium, which induces contraction.
Licorice root used in in large quantities will increase the excretion of potassium.
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