Rhonda Patrick· PhD
~97% of US has inadequate potassium.
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~97% of US has inadequate potassium.
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most people don't get 4,700 mg/d.
the adequate intake for potassium is set at around four thousand seven hundred milligrams a day which is really hard to get and is why 97% of Americans don't meet that requirement