Potassium and its rarely appreciated counterpart, Sodium, commonly are misunderstood when it comes time for one to explain it. In fact, these supposed health "brainiacs" that are clueless about the benefits of each component and the fact that they work hand in hand within your body's cells is a fundamental part that is often ignored. Worse, are the people who escape to the internet to write about their interest in health that are quick to tell you about a banana as a potent supply of Potassium, but in the same sentence put down anyone who sprinkles salt to the food they are eating. An easy to detect clue that they may not actually have any smidgen of an idea what they are writing about, after all.

Even so-called experts on the subject will do their best to get you to believe them and persuade you that foods high in Potassium are what you want when you first believe that your diet is short in Potassium or Sodium both. A huge mistake to agree to that what might seem like an easy to solve health problem.

Potassium and Sodium both, work in harmony with the other within your body. Your Potassium and Sodium balance is the Not nearly as common, there are people who are just the opposite, having their Sodium counts be too low, resulting in a low Sodium diet and their Potassium is the one that is off the charts. Possible, yes, but not likely in America, or the Western world. People, who eat a consistent diet of only fruit, run the highest risk of having too much Potassium in their body.