There’s a thread on here I remember reading about some relationship between thiamine and autoimmune disease. What are your thoughts on their relationship ?That seems like a massive dose of potassium powder. Have you considered the amount of potassium you get from your diet?
Table 2: Potassium Content of Selected Foods [13]Office of Dietary Supplements - Potassium
Potassium overview for health professionals. Research health effects, dosing, sources, deficiency symptoms, side effects, and interactions here.ods.od.nih.gov
I searched this article for "edema", but it is not mentioned.
Food Milligrams
(mg) per
servingPercent
DV*Apricots, dried, ½ cup 755 16Lentils, cooked, 1 cup 731 16Squash, acorn, mashed, 1 cup 644 14Prunes, dried, ½ cup 635 14Raisins, ½ cup 618 13Potato, baked, flesh only, 1 medium 610 13Kidney beans, canned, 1 cup 607 13Orange juice, 1 cup 496 11Soybeans, mature seeds, boiled, ½ cup 443 9Banana, 1 medium 422 9Milk, 1%, 1 cup 366 8Spinach, raw, 2 cups 334 7Chicken breast, boneless, grilled, 3 ounces 332 7Yogurt, fruit variety, nonfat, 6 ounces 330 7Salmon, Atlantic, farmed, cooked, 3 ounces 326 7Beef, top sirloin, grilled, 3 ounces 315 7Molasses, 1 tablespoon 308 7Tomato, raw, 1 medium 292 6Soymilk, 1 cup 287 6Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat, 6 ounces 240 5Broccoli, cooked, chopped, ½ cup 229 5Cantaloupe, cubed, ½ cup 214 5Turkey breast, roasted, 3 ounces 212 5Asparagus, cooked, ½ cup 202 4Apple, with skin, 1 medium 195 4Cashew nuts, 1 ounce 187 4Rice, brown, medium grain, cooked, 1 cup 154 3Tuna, light, canned in water, drained, 3 ounces 153 3Coffee, brewed, 1 cup 116 2Lettuce, iceberg, shredded, 1 cup 102 2Peanut butter, 1 tablespoon 90 2Tea, black, brewed, 1 cup 88 2Flaxseed, whole, 1 tablespoon 84 2Bread, whole wheat, 1 slice 81 2Egg, 1 large 69 1Rice, white, medium grain, cooked, 1 cup 54 1Bread, white, 1 slice 37 1Cheese, mozzarella, part skim, 1½ ounces 36 1
Here's some Ray Peat articles about edema:
When energy fails: Edema, heart failure, hypertension, sarcopenia, etc.
raypeat.com › articles › edema-heart-failure-hypertension-sarcopenia
Lowering inflammation and the associated excess of free fatty acids in the blood, and improving the ability to oxidize glucose, will lower blood pressure while ...
Salt, energy, metabolic rate, and longevity
raypeat.com › articles › articles › salt
Despite numerous publications showing that diuretics could cause the edematous problems that they were supposed to remedy, they have been one of the most ...
Water: swelling, tension, pain, fatigue, aging
raypeat.com › articles › articles › water
Combined with a high protein diet, eating a little extra salt usually helps to correct a variety of problems involving edema, poor circulation, and high blood ...
Edit: So I’ve been spending some time reading a lot of your posts in other threads. One thing you said -
“Acetylcholine can't happen without thiamine. A person's thiamine can become deficient and its function can also get blocked.”
I’ve been in fascinating discussions with people who have relapsing polychondritis - a disease that destroys the cartilage. This one gentleman I talk to has a very interesting theory about an abundance of choline causing this - which absolutely matches up with my experience of Huperzine - alpha gpc and other supplements I was taking triggering the absolute worst pain in all my cartilage structures - and probably my airway collapse if my ENT is correct-Just thinking out loud , but maybe a thiamine deficiency could be preventing the choline from synthesizing to acetylcholine - and acetylcholine is something that apparently is lacking in POTS which I also suffer from.
My POTS symptoms were much improved when I could the acetylcholine increasing supplements but I may have been flooding they body with choline that I’m not utilizing properly. I’m obviously not sure if any of this but It’s got me thinking.
Just looking around it seems also b5 is necessary for this conversion. Might be something else for me to look into. Does any of this sound plausible to you?
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