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wookiepants
wookiepants Posts: 40 Member
edited December 2024 in Social Groups
I am trying to get my daily's in and it seems I will need to get the potassium and magnesium supplements (pills)...however there is a ton of different types and I have NO idea which one's I'm suppose to be getting. :(

A little help please? What supplements if any do you guys/gals use?

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  • FIT_Goat
    FIT_Goat Posts: 4,227 Member
    potassium pills?

    Don't waste the money. They have almost none. Instead, get a "lite-salt" that contains it. It's a ton more potassium and a fraction of the cost.

    I can't offer other advice. I don't supplement either of these. I just know, from experience, about the lite-salt being better than pills for K.
  • wookiepants
    wookiepants Posts: 40 Member
    FIT_Goat wrote: »
    potassium pills?

    Don't waste the money. They have almost none. Instead, get a "lite-salt" that contains it. It's a ton more potassium and a fraction of the cost.

    I can't offer other advice. I don't supplement either of these. I just know, from experience, about the lite-salt being better than pills for K.

    Oh awesome. Thank you :)
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    edited November 2016
    wookiepants wrote: »
    What supplements if any do you guys/gals use?

    None currently. I ran out of magnesium glycinate which I was taking for night leg cramps but haven't been getting leg cramps so haven't been motivated to get more. Knocks on wood...
  • froyseef
    froyseef Posts: 52 Member
    C, folic acid, senior or prenatal vitamin, baby aspirin, glucosamine /condroitn, fish oil, in the morning
    D3 2000. Tums, noon
  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    I mostly don't use the potassium. I do a shake or two of NuSalt while I'm cooking most days but that's about it. I added just a tiny bit to water in the beginning but sodium and magnesium are the ones you really need. Potassium is in a lot of foods that you don't even realize like coffee and tea. You get waaaaaay more than you realize.
    There is very detailed info in the stickies that links you to sources describing the best magnesium.
    I personally chose magnesium carbonate because I buy it in powder form in bulk on Amazon from Bulk Supplements and it's the cheapest possible way to go that I've found.
    I just eat pickles or drink some pickle juice or add a little salt to water, coffee or when I mix ACV with water. It makes it taste better.
    I also like moderately salted foods.

  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    wookiepants wrote: »
    FIT_Goat wrote: »
    potassium pills?

    Don't waste the money. They have almost none. Instead, get a "lite-salt" that contains it. It's a ton more potassium and a fraction of the cost.

    I can't offer other advice. I don't supplement either of these. I just know, from experience, about the lite-salt being better than pills for K.

    Oh awesome. Thank you :)

    Lite salt also has the benefit of being easy to spread over the course of the day. The experts seem to recommend this, due the body's relative inability to make optimal use of large doses. (For example, Phinney & Volek recommend 3 slow-release Slow-Mag tabs, spaced throughout the day.)
  • emaline2210
    emaline2210 Posts: 57 Member
    I take quercetin, adrenal support, fish oil and vitamin d in the am. I take 500 MG mag (I believe citrate) at night. I can't find my really good bottle that I love, and I can't persuade myself to drop 30 bucks on it when I have other bottles of the not so good stuff laying around.

    I've noticed it's making me sleep very well, but I'm also waking up with really loose stools, which the good stuff never did. I haven't experienced any kind of "keto flu". My daily snack is a pickle and a spoonful of peanut butter and I think this is an electrolyte saver. :)
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