Potassium and ketogenic diets

[LewdTenant]

I started my ketogenic diet on Monday. I'm trying to watch my sodium intake,but it will be a little hard to cut it down dramatically if I do not prepare most of my meals.

I purchased some potassium citrate. It has 99mg/pill. This morning I had a very dry throat even after consuming a lot of water, about 16 oz every hour for 6 hours.

So I took 2 potassium pills,drank 32 oz. of water, 2 tblspns of flax oil, and had a protein shake(110g sodium and 340g potassium). I went to bed for 5 hours and I woke up feeling extremely hydrated. does this sound right? 440mg potassium does not seem like much.

Note:since I can not eat bananas(400mg potassium) on my diet, i found a whole avacado contains about 5g protein, 37g carbs,14g of carbs,4g fiber and 1400mg potassium. I will try to take about 1/4 avacoda/day and perhaps 1-2 potassium pills per day with a meal if it contains lot of salt.

 

[matteoja]

Also, switch to NU-Salt over reg salt. That gives you some xtra potassium throughout the day

Joe

 

[dieseltwin]

What is NU-salt? is that potassium chloride?

I'm still looking for a good potassium supplement, but here is what I've found:

NOW brand potassium chloride powder, it has 730mg potassium in 1/4 of a tsp, with 162 servings per bottle, (i buy it for like $2.50 at juicers.net) i usually end up mixing like half a tsp in with a little water and chase it with something, it tastes like drinking salt water (NASTY), but oh well for that price i dont mind it.

does anyone know where to find some other good potassium supplements ? (maybe a capsule, even though i like powders cause i really dont like what i see when i read the ingredient labels for vitamins--calcium ascorbate powder, now that taste i dont mind)

-a

 

[Mr.X]

I started my ketogenic diet on Monday. I'm trying to watch my sodium intake,but it will be a little hard to cut it down dramatically if I do not prepare most of my meals.

I purchased some potassium citrate. It has 99mg/pill. This morning I had a very dry throat even after consuming a lot of water, about 16 oz every hour for 6 hours.

So I took 2 potassium pills,drank 32 oz. of water, 2 tblspns of flax oil, and had a protein shake(110g sodium and 340g potassium). I went to bed for 5 hours and I woke up feeling extremely hydrated. does this sound right? 440mg potassium does not seem like much.

Note:since I can not eat bananas(400mg potassium) on my diet, i found a whole avacado contains about 5g protein, 37g carbs,14g of carbs,4g fiber and 1400mg potassium. I will try to take about 1/4 avacoda/day and perhaps 1-2 potassium pills per day with a meal if it contains lot of salt.

Potassium is welcome when in Ketosis but not mendatory, and, in fact, too much Potassium can cause some people to go into cardiac arrest. I.E. this is why lethal injections contain a type of Potassium....I would say that a daily dose of 1000mg split into 3 doses is a good rule-of-thumb, but anything over that is probably a waste of money.

Mr.X

 

[fawnmarie]

Which is why, by law, potassium supplements can only contain 99 mg per.

I use Morton lite-salt for 78 cents a canister.

1/4 tsp has 290 sodium, 340 mg potassium. Cheap and a couple less pills to swallow.

If you are avoiding sodium because of water retention, you'll find a ketogenic diet will take care of that. Each gram of carbohydrate retains 3 grams of water, so just cutting out the carbs will drop the water retention.

If you are avoiding sodium because of high blood pressure, please monitor your meds. A ketogenic diet will drop your BP FAST. My bf w/HBP did keto last year and starting getting faint spells and had to stop his medications (whoopee!). If this is the case, you might find you don't have to avoid sodium quite so fervently after being on a keto diet for a while.

fawn