• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    21 hours ago
    Alternatively just make snake juice, the ingredients aren't that expensive for all your electrolytes.

    Just be careful about the potassium, that’s the one thing your body can’t easily flush.

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      16 hours ago

      Man, tell that to my kidneys. I swear every time I get a blood test at the doctor they send me to the emergency room to get another potassium IV no matter how many of their stupid pills I take. That shit burns going into your veins, too. I don’t even have any symptoms. They just all see 2.5 whatevers per whatever of potassium on their stupid number sheet and think I must be dying. I get bad cramps in my legs every night for days after the IV too. I swear doctors just like torturing me.

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        15 hours ago

        You are aware you’re able to reject treatment up until you drop unconscious and they believe they have to save your life, right? As long as you’re awake and not suicidal you can literally just walk away.

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          Yeah, they say that. Then they say if you refuse they won’t treat your other conditions because you’re non-compliant. Technically it’s true, but functionally they have you trapped if you have any other issues, which I do.

      • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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        10 hours ago

        Aye, I just make sure to eat plenty of spinach and bananas before and after a small fast (I do at most 2 days, usually just 1). Apparently baked potatoes are also rich in potassium, I never knew until yesterday.

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        10 hours ago

        Good shout! Best price I could here in Denmark is 149 DKK for 100 capsules though ($23.42 USD / €19.96 EUR), and it says the recommendation is 1-3 capsules an hour? That seems like a lot, but maybe that’s for elite sport and not a couch potato like myself heh.

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        19 hours ago

        It’s some concoction for days where you fast so you get some of the electrolytes that is expelled from your body as waste.
        I guess one could think of it as “mineral water” because that’s what it contains: just enough stuff for your cells so you don’t cramp etc.