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I think most people know of the main benefits of potassium, supporting healthy heart, supporting

healthy blood sugars, health balancing of your fluids, things like that.

But there's some unexpected, very interesting benefits of potassium, I think you should know

about.

Well, out of all the minerals, potassium is needed in the largest quantity.

You need 4,700 milligrams of potassium.

Every single day, you don't even require a fraction of that quantity for other nutrients.

So with potassium, it's unique in that you need a lot of it, primarily because it supports

two major areas, the muscles and the nerves.

You have these little tiny pumps, they're called sodium potassium pumps, you have billions

of them in the muscles, in the nervous system, and it allows the muscles and nerves to work.

It also is necessary in producing energy.

So let me go through a couple really important points about potassium, the first being

why are we deficient?

Because an average person, especially in the US, only consumes about a cup and a half of

vegetables per day.

And vegetables are probably one of the better sources of potassium.

And so a cup and a half of vegetables is just not going to be even close to what you

need.

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