Good product for when you're on furosemide, bad product for spironolactone.
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As someone who naturally craves lots of salt spiro was rough. About 5 years of constant cravings for a level of salt most people around me couldn’t handle
The fun part of that one is it's potassium sparing. So you start using this stuff while taking that medication you'll get hyperkalemia. Lasix, on the other hand, makes you piss out all your potassium.
While this uses potassium chloride to cut down on sodium, does a mix of sodium chloride and MSG have the same effect? MSG has sodium, but it looks like not much per unit weight.
I'm guessing no? You're probably still using around the same amount of sodium.
Some studies have shown that reducing sodium salt intake by replacing it with potassium can help reduce blood pressure, so that's why this exists (or at least why it has some credibility).
Of course, I am not a doctor, so take this all with a grain of salt 😅.
Yeah, I’ve been looking into this for that exact reason. It does seem medically beneficial to replace an appreciable portion of your sodium with potassium, for those of us with high blood pressure.
However I don’t really see the point of this. Maybe there are some people who add a lot of salt to stuff, but I believe most of us consume excess sodium through processed and restaurant food. Added salt is not enough of overall sodium intake to matter. It’s much more important to watch the sodium content in your food choices, notably eat less processed food
If your doctor asks you to reduce salt intake to 50% and everything you eat you make yourself, the equation is simple - use this product.
If you get most of your salt intake from restaurant and processed foods... this will only make a minor improvement.
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is the sodium interchanged with sugar? i would be dissapointed if not, its the least they can do
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