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 Potassium |
| One key electrolyte contained in SPORTea® is potassium. Potassium is an important electrolyte which helps minimize fatigue and cramping during and after intense exercise. Potassium helps diffuse stress symptoms, alleviate muscle tension, and is considered by nutritional authorities to be of significant value to people with high blood pressure that are attempting to normalize it. |
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| Potassium decreases blood pressure, reduces risk of osteoperosis and more: "Potassium magnesium supplementation for four weeks improves small distal artery compliance and reduces blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension. Recently, epidemiological and clinical studies in man and experimental studies
in animals have shown that increasing potassium intake lowers blood pressure and
that communities with a high potassium intake tend to have lower population
blood pressures. Increasing potassium intake may have other beneficial effects, for example,
reducing the risk of stroke and preventing the development of renal disease
independent of its effect on blood pressure. A high potassium intake reduces
calcium excretion and could play an important role in the management of
hypercalciuria and kidney stone formation, as well as bone demineralization.
Potassium intake may also play an important role in carbohydrate intolerance. A
reduced serum potassium increases the risk of lethal ventricular arrhythmias in
those at risk, i.e. patients with ischemic heart disease, heart failure or left
ventricular hypertrophy, and increasing potassium intake may prevent this." - Potassium: More beneficial effects, Climacteric, 2003 (View abstract) |
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