Potassium - to. to Hypertension. Richard Mooreby Richard A. Passwater, Ph. D. In April, we discussed how modern diets, high in processed foods, cause an imbalance. We interviewed Herb Boynton, co- author of The Salt Solution. Richard D. Moore, M. ![]() Potassium-to-Sodium Ratio Affects Overall Health. Take charge of your health with nutritional advice and supplements by Dr. Whitaker to improve blood sugar levels and cardiovascular age-related health issues. Emission Factor Documentation for AP-42, Section 13.2.1 Paved Roads Measurement Policy Group Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards U.S. Environmental. Potassium - to - Sodium Ratio Affects Overall Health. Actually a diet with a K Factor of three or above is not bad. I predicted in 1986 in The K Factor. Direct emission factors for various transport. D., Ph. D., and Mark Mc. Carty), and learned how this. Clearly, the best way to get potassium. When you eat whole. For 9. 0 persons out of 1. Dr. Moore is our guest for this column. He received his medical degree from. Indiana School of Medicine and his doctorate in biophysics from Purdue University. He. is professor emeritus, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. ![]() ![]() Passwater: When people say, . It is not simply a question of blood pressure. People can. have normal blood pressure and still have serious metabolic problems that result from this. In turn, these metabolic problems can lead to any of more than. Passwater: To help people recognize foods and diets that cause potassium/sodium. Instead of having to mentally juggle and compare the two large numbers for. K Factor is one number that is easier to handle for. Moore: . The higher the K Factor, the better the food or diet. Soybeans. have a K Factor of 3. Corned beef hash has a K Factor of about 0. Selecting mostly. K Factor will allow you to include some foods with poorer K Factors. ![]() The. K Factor of the total diet is the important number. Passwater: You recommend that diets have a K Factor of at least four. Why? Moore: When I looked at all the published data for both potassium and sodium in. I could see that, as the K Factor got above one or two, there was. I chose a K Factor of four because. K. Factor was less than three. Actually a diet with a K Factor of three or above is not bad. I think a K Factor above four is a better goal. Of course. even higher than that would be better in terms of general health. I say this based upon. K Factor of about 1. K. Factor something like that. Passwater: You're saying that modern diets have a poorer K Factor than diets. 2013 ISO New England Electric Generator Air Emissions Report i ISO New England Inc. 2013 ISO New England Electric Generator Air Emissions Report.Moore: Let me give you a very interesting statistic. In 1. 98. 5, The New England. Journal of Medicine published an article titled . This, by the way, is about the same ratio that modern- day. It works out to a dietary K Factor of 1. Today, in the United States, that 1. This is a K Factor of. You would not expect that any animal species, human or otherwise, could live for. The scientific literature supports our. There is absolutely no doubt that the imbalance thereby produced influences at least. ![]() ![]() This is why we think The Salt. Solution is an extremely important book, and we hope that people will read it. It will. enable them to correct this huge dietary error. A daily ration of 2,5. ![]() ![]() Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Diets. To better understand diet related emissions. 2014 Air Emissions Report Page ii ISO Background Information Document for Updating AP42 Section 2.4 for Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills. And, of course, as virtually everyone should know, 4,0. Passwater: What about the diets of the remaining . Dennis Burkitt and Hugh Trowell. They wrote the book Western Diseases. Refined Carbohydrate and Disease, as well as several others. In Western. Diseases, Dr. Trowell states, . The Yamomano Indians in Brazil have. Unprocessed foods have a high K Factor, that is. This is because the sodium- potassium pumps in their cells. If you take foods like meat, fish, fowl, eggs and dairy products, 9. The key factor is to eat. If people ate only whole, unprocessed foods and used salt. Nevertheless, The. Salt Solution and The High Blood Pressure Solution list foods that are. Passwater: Are we engaged in a hopeless battle? As we know, for some reason. It has just gotten. Moore: The statistics show that 8. Americans today. come from processed foods. Most of these processed foods not only have huge amounts of. It is about the same with wheat. About three- quarters of the potassium is. We have a double whammy here. The shame of it is that it is so easy to increase potassium. As I mentioned, just about. This includes. bananas, oranges, apples, rutabagas and cabbage. Potatoes are one of the richest sources. A big baked potato, for example, will have about twice as much potassium. Passwater: What about cow's milk? Moore: Cow's milk has a K Factor of 2. It also is true that even though ocean. So don't rule out salmon, tuna, sardines or any marine. If you eat the. canned variety of these fish, however, you have to be careful they are not loaded with. Passwater: Is there a good way to supplement diets to improve the potassium. How about salt substitutes? Moore: The Finnish people developed a product that they call. Most people can't tell it from ordinary salt, yet it has far less sodium than. It also has quite a lot of potassium in it. Over in Finland, the results. Substitution of this flavoring alternative has caused an. I. must add that these people are also admonished to eat high potassium foods and keep their. Whatever the reason, there has been an astonishing. Finland, where consumer acceptance of. Pan. Salt has been so strong that there are now more than 1,0. This is a significant step. Passwater: Tell us more about this salt substitute and the studies done with it. Moore: Solgar Heart Salt/Cardia Salt contains 5. An important factor is that it doesn’t. A taste test. conducted by Tuft’s University Health & Nutrition Newsletter (May 1. The researchers remarked, . The researchers concluded, . As shown by the Finnish studies, the effect on stroke was quite dramatic. Moore: Readers of The High Blood Pressure Solution report very dramatic. Passwater: A health claim recently has been approved that says, more or less. Moore: It is a big step forward. The Tropicana Orange Juice people are. But it bears emphasizing that. Most fruits, vegetables and legumes are loaded with potassium, and most of. The only vegetable that I can think of that has fairly heavy. It still is very favorable. Passwater: Average citizens, if they know about potassium at all, frequently. The thinking appears to be that high blood pressure and too much water. So let's get rid of the water. But, in the process. Moore: First of all, The Salt Solution is not anti- drug. However, many. people can restore their blood pressure to normal limits simply by increasing potassium. Passwater: OK, I believe that we have established the practical benefits. Now, let's chat about the details of the work itself, which. Nobel Prize stuff on a level with the discoveries of the structure of. DNA and the Krebs Cycle. You've helped elucidate one of the cell's basic mechanisms, and. What got you started? Moore: I got into this not because I was interested in any particular disease. I was interested in basic physical mechanisms of how the cell works and how. When I was a graduate student at Purdue's Physics. Department in 1. 95. I decided to work on that mechanism. I had heard Professor Lorin. Mullins, head of the Department of Biophysics at the University of Maryland, refer to. Any mechanism that uses that much energy has got to be. If you looked at the power distribution in a city and you found one operation. When I did some of my early studies about the functioning of the sodium/potassium pump. I uncovered some clues that led me to think that insulin might be affecting it. Later, my. group- and also that of Dr. Torben Clausen in Denmark- demonstrated that insulin does indeed. That is pretty well established now. Additionally. with the help of research by Dr. Ken Zierler at Johns Hopkins University, we know that the. This is another clue that insulin action on the pump is. Then some theoretical analysis suggested that insulin might be raising the p. H (measure. of acidity or alkalinity) inside cells, thus making the cell interiors more alkaline. We. did experiments in that area, and we were the first to show that is indeed the case. Before we did the experiments, I made a. I would meet at a scientific conference- at. I would estimate- . It is true that every enzyme is affected by p. H, and everyone was assuming - - as I. H in the cell was therefore constant. Of course, the corollary hypothesis is that there is a pattern to the enzyme p. H. profile, which is indeed the way it turns out. The p. H is not constant, but is a. The p. H level is involved with regulation of glycolysis, and to. Three or four people besides myself had begun working on regulation of p. H. Before long. a couple of the others showed that one way to accomplish this regulation is via the. Technically, the electrochemical potential - - or free- energy. H+) out. of the cell. That was a possible way to explain our observation of insulin- increased p. H. So we. undertook experiments that confirmed our theory. Those experiments, incidentally, were. Further, if the sodium is lowered below. H more acidic. And that's. This is neat: just by changing the sodium outside the cell, you can. Passwater: In other words, the p. H would go down (more acidic) instead of going. Moore: Indeed, that is the case. Our work was pretty decisive, but the finding. But a lot of our other findings on insulin and p. H. haven't been ignored. In fact, there are a lot of researchers following up on this now. All. this without adding any foreign chemicals. This is a pretty convincing conclusion. In the process, other people with whom I had worked, including my former major. This sodium/ calcium exchange pump moves three sodium ions into the. Passwater: Let's remind our readers that calcium ions have a charge of. This is opposed to the sodium/potassium exchange pump which. Passwater: For our non- chemist readers, stociometric merely means a constant. Chemists use this term to describe relationships in which the. Law of Constant Proportions. Moore: The sodium/potassium pump does not have a fixed ratio of sodium to. The sodium/calcium exchange is electrically not neutral, so, therefore, the membrane. A higher membrane potential will tend to make that pump move. At each cycle, that pump moves a positive charge in. The other thing that. About the time all this was worked out, a researcher called me about an article that I. In the paper, I had. It turned out that he was doing experiments on. That was when the proverbial light bulb came on in my brain. I realized that if you. Both of these effects are going to affect the sodium calcium exchange pump in a way. Therefore, you are also getting an increase of.
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