[USCG SimTech]

Studies in the 60s and 70s also showed the importance of Magnesium. Absolutely essential for something like 300 enzyme processes in the body. Many chronic cases of angina were cured with Magnesium. Just google "magnesium heart"

Try getting one of the most important minerals to the heart there is (so I've read), in RDA quantities, Potassium.

3.5-4.7 GRAMS. Funny (not ha ha) how the FedGov has limited suppliments to 99mg.

I'm not taking 47 tablets a day.

Go to Home Depot or Lowes and pick up a 40 LB bag of Potassium Chloride by the Morton salt company made for water softeners (+20yr supply). Use some dedicated clean tools to powderize the small block and take 1/4 teaspoon 3 times a day with food to get ~4.5 grams of potassium.

If you have a current heart condition or are not 100% sure it's OK with your doctor to switch to potassium chloride from sodium chloride you may kill yourself. It's supposedly why the FedGov has limited the suppliments to 99MG each tablet.

But without enough K, you are slowly killing yourself over years and years.

[djf]

Thnx. I didn't know you could get it from Lowes, I been paying like everybody else for 99 mg tabs.

Potassium and magnesium are similar in that the body needs it in the cells, but doesn't like it in the intercellular fluids. So you kind of have to overdose on it a bit.

I know if I take a bit too much Mg, it's like taking too much Vitamin C. I get to sit on the porcelain throne for awhile.

[djf]

You can also get it from salt substitutes. I use NaCl rarely, and only in sea salt form.

If I use "salt", it's usually Morton salt substitute.