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Sodium to Potassium ratio

If a person consumes around 8,000-10,000 mg of potassium per day, how much sodium he can eat safely?

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Answer

Thats an incredible amount of potassium, we’re talking the kind of juice they give you pre-colonoscopy wouldnt even have that much.

Most people cant handle much more than 12,000 mg of sodium per day, your kidneys are rate limited by how much they can physically piss out. Whatever you don’t need though is just going out via urine and the bowels though. Same with the potassium.

Magnesium is the level I’d worry about with Sodium:Potassium ratio, magnesium acts as a manager and balancer of sodium/potassium levels, that’s probably not scientifically accurate but it’s an easy way to think about it. Someone who was magnesium deficient and took tons of one electrolyte over the other probably wouldn’t have a great time.

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