Posted on 11/02/2017 1:44:41 PM PDT by Trillian
Too much Potassium and you get heart beat problems - and now licorice can cause too low a Potassium level and heart beat problems.....
Almost seems like they are wanting to inundate the medical folks by having a million minor things that folks can "self diagnose" with and go looking for their favorite "seen on TV" drug...
I believe the second most common offering was Swiss but I could be making that up. A dark blue sleeve, some sort of distant mansion in artwork, blue and silver foil.
Of course, its difficult to judge the substance by appearance. It was dull and didnt shine but I suppose different processes may make it look different. In form it wasnt a large segmented bar, it was individual foil wrapped bars each of which had the proportions similar to a pack of Wrigleys but slightly smaller.
If medicine tasted like black licorice Id Me an addict. I guess thats why they say to each his own. I love the stuff. Cant get enough.
Lol. Here’s another one. I can’t abide the taste of coffee. I once managed to dilute a cup with enough milk and sugar to down a few swallows. I didn’t enjoy them, though.
Let me guess; you love coffee.
I recently noticed some strange problems with my heartbeat and thought maybe it was time to consult a cardiologist. But then I realized that this issue always seemed to occur when I had been drinking a certain kind of tea. It was Earl Grey tea, a brand with "double bergamot oil". I looked up whether other people had had similar problems and I read that bergamot oil can deplete potassium from the body.
Can’t help you with the tea question, or bergamot oil. I don’t drink tea, and have never heard of bergamot oil. Hope you can get some answers.
Earl Grey tea seems to be one of the most common types of tea you can buy. It has something called bergamot oil added to it, which I don't know very much about either, but I think I have read that it is a flavoring that comes from a kind of oranges.
Anyway, I felt better after I stopped drinking that type of tea. A main reason I drink tea is that I add butter to it, but that's another story.
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