> This is your first clue to understanding > how it is that we get so ill, and then willingly > swallow billions of dollars worth of useless 'patent > medicines'. Remember, just to keep up with the average > shortfall of 1,850 milligrams of potassium per day, > you would need to swallow at least 19 pills from your > local health food shop, and no ordinary person could > possibly afford that in the long term. > In order to keep their medical doctors in > line, both the FDA and AMA have circulated a number of > truly frightening stories about potassium. Most common > among them is that the potassium will 'react' with one > of a wide range of synthetic pharmaceutical medicines, > frequently resulting in death. This is actually true, > but it is the poisonous synthetic medicine which > causes the lethal cross reaction that kills you, not > the natural potassium so essential to your health. > Then there is the even scarier rumor that 'too much' > potassium will kill you by stopping your heart from > beating, as in the case of a lethal injection > execution. > Too much of almost anything will kill you, > including simple water and air, especially if applied > too quickly or by the incorrect route. When Timothy > McVeigh was strapped to a gurney and put to death, the > third chemical injected directly into his vein was a > 'chaser' containing 50 milliliters of concentrated > potassium chloride, which finally stopped his heart. > If you are stupid enough to try this at home, you will > die just as quickly, and in order to put this > deliberate FDA and AMA scare mongering into the proper > perspective, it is necessary to explain why. > The normal route for potassium to enter > the body is by way of the mouth, either in the form of > food, or sometimes as a solution made up of 100% water > soluble potassium chloride dissolved in fruit juice. > As the potassium passes through the digestive tract, > the cells extract what they need and any excess is > then passed out of the body, partly as solid waste, > but mostly through the kidneys as urine. It is a > perfectly normal biochemical process that the body > itself knows how to handle very well, without any > outside help from medical doctors. However, if you > inject the potassium directly into a vein, you bypass > the body's biochemical safety processes and stop the > heart. > Exactly the same can be said of > concentrated hydrochloric acid, always present in our > stomachs in order to digest food, but incapable of > harming us because of the body's sophisticated > biochemical defenses. However, if you injected this > same concentrated hydrochloric acid from the stomach > directly into a vein, you would die even more quickly > than you would from injecting potassium. > You can only be scared by a medical doctor > if you allow yourself to be scared, and you will no > doubt gain added confidence where potassium is > concerned later in this report, when we examine the > extraordinary case of the Yanomami Indians of South > America. The Yanomami were fortunate enough to escape > the attention of western medical 'science' for > thousands of years, and still shun it now. These > fascinating people receive virtually no sodium [table > salt] at all, but every adult consumes around 8,500 > milligrams of potassium every day. They are incredibly > fit and have no history whatever of arthritis, > osteoporosis, hypertension [high blood pressure], > angina or stroke. We will return to the Yanomami a > little later on.
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