Hi, After the recent annual physical and blood draw, everything came back within the normal ranges except potassium which is modestly elevated. The recommended level for my age & sex is 5.3 and I am at 5.4. My diet is pretty broad and balanced. After a quick internet search, my diet includes all…

[image] rschar6: Are there any supplements that contain carbohydrates but don’t contain potassium? In case a change is warranted. Thanks in advance. The easiest and cheapest thing is to mix your own with some bulk maltodextrin. You can add sodium citrate if you need electrolytes. I buy Now De…

[image] Gnome: did your doc actually say to reduce? This is the important question. The sample was most likely hemolyzed and thus falsely elevated. If not, you should be having a more in depth discussion with your doctor about management going forward.

Im not your doctor but if your other kidney function tests (BUN and Cr) are normal than you should be able to handle the K and your blood draw may have been a little hemolyzed. For patients with kidney injury/failure things have to get pretty bad before K becomes a problem. FWIW

[image] rschar6: The recommended level for my age & sex is 5.3 and I am at 5.4. Not a medical doctor, but I think you are jumping to conclusions: Did a doctor look at your blood work results? If not, take your results to a doctor. When a doctor sees something unusual, I would expect them to…

Sounds like a non-issue to me. Also, there’s no such thing as an exact “normal level” when it comes to biomarkers. It’s always a reference range, and the ranges aren’t an exact science. Different doctors and testing companies use different reference ranges, which are based more on averages than what…

As the others have said, I would talk to your doctor, but if you just want to change your drink, I’ll add a +1 for making your own. There is a huge thread here about it, but I like to use Maltodextrin:Fructose in a 2:1 ratio. I add an electrolyte table for the sale and flavor. If it’s an easy rid…

Hi, Thanks for all of the suggestions. My original wording did contain information about the doctor’s evaluation. I thought it made the question unnecessarily wordy so I deleted it before posting. The doctor has ordered another blood draw in 30 days to see if this is just an anomaly. Anyway, @M…

I’ve been trying to figure out if I should be adding potassium to my homemade water bottle formulation, so have done a bit of reading. A couple items that have stood out, that may give a bit of perspective. a) the daily recommended intake for potassium (on average) is actually more mg than the rda…

Blood tests are pretty wildly misread by many patients and some physicians too. Having a 0.1 above ‘recommended levels’ is nothing. Literally. Don’t interpret the ‘recommended levels’ as a hard ceiling. If it were 2 or 3 points high, I’d be concerned as a patient, and your physician would be right …

Sport drink recommendations sans potassium

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Gnome June 29, 2023, 10:12pm 2

did your doc actually say to reduce?

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