Why do you need potassium?

Answer 1

* Regulates heart function * Reduces blood pressure * Essential for protein and nucleid acid synthesis * Required for normal fluid balance * Fundamental for normal nerve and muscle function * Converts glucose into glycogen (muscle fuel) * Important role in kidney function * Helps lungs eliminate carbon dioxide * Needed to maintain acid/alkali balance

Answer 2

Potassium is one of the electrolytes essential to the smooth running of the human body; in fact just about all bodily functions depend on it to some extent. It is also one of the most abundant minerals in the body, constituting 70% of the positive ions inside cells; the rest are a mixture of sodium, magnesium, calcium, arginine, and others. Potassium is distributed to the cells by a process of passive diffusion and is regulated by an enzyme called adenosinetriphosphatase together with the level of sodium concentration inside the cell. Potassium and sodium are antagonistic, which means that an imbalance of one will automatically cause an imbalance of the other; normally potassium should predominate inside the cell.

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Potassium is a source of vitamin B. Vitamin B helps with growth. Vitamin B (Potassium) is starch. It is in Potatoes and other highly starchy foods. Hope this helps

Answer 3

There are very important biological functions in the human body, including nerve messages and muscle contractions, which require the cells to alter the relative concentration of sodium vs. potassium, inside the cell as compared to outside the cell in the intercellular fluid. In order for this to work, there has to be enough sodium and enough potassium available. And for these elements to be available, they have to be in your diet.

Answer 4

because potassium aids in normal muscle contractions and in the sending of nerve impulses that control the movement of muscles, in other words, potassium helps your muscles and hekps avoid cramps

Answer 5

helps in the production of testosterone