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Hello,
I just had an interesting discussion with my naturopath, Dr. Matsen, about
increasing my potassium intake to help with ES.
He mentioned that increases in potassium signal our body that it is sunny
weather outside, no matter where we are when we eat potassium rich foods
(since potassium rich foods grow in sunny weather). When we increase
potassium, our body releases less vitamin-D since it thinks it is sunny
outside, and assumes we don't need the vitamin-D.
To balance high potassium diet, he suggests adding sea salt to potassium
rich foods, when eating in non-sunny weather, so we still get vitamin-D from
our liver. Otherwise we can end up with winter blues from lack of
vitamin-D.
His ideal recommendation is eating foods that are in season in your area, to
keep vitamin-D in proper balance.
Dr. Matsen's book "Eating Alive II" goes into detail on this, and precisely
how mercury affects our body.
Glenn
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