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Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight by yywwbbn on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @04:34AM (#34078493)
You could easily eat 4-6 grams (if you wanted to obviously). But absorption us much lower and slower you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal
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Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight by hnfong on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:41AM (#34079363)
> you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal

Apparently if you ingest ~25grams of _table salt_ your life might be at risk.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537768/

I'd imagine Potassium might be a bit more toxic in lesser doses.

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