THE MIRACLE THIS IS...POTASSIUM
By Kyle Jessop
If one were to take a plant and burn it to ash, and
then take that ash and boil and evaporate it, the residue
would be pot ash.
Our extremely resourceful ancestors did just this.
They once gathered plants, burned them, then took
the ash, the pot ash; boiled and evaporated it for the
residue to make soap, which everyone knows to be a
cleansing agent, an alkalizer, antacid, or neutralizer.
Much later in 1807 the element garnered, or collect-
ed from this pot ash, became known as Pot-ash-ium,
or, Potassium.
Every single vitamin and mineral have a story just
as interesting, and there is nothing more fascinating
because we are these elements, and they are the very
essence of human beings.
Organic raw honey is replete with life enhancing
potassium.
“It is no mere theory, but has been proved that bacte-
ria cannot live in the presence of honey for the reason
that honey is an excellent source of potassium.” Page
95, Folk Medicine, D.C. Jarvis, M.D.
This is because potassium much like magnesium has
an insatiable, or unending hunger for water thus dehy-
drating the bacterium to its demise.
Interestingly enough, although bananas contain
some potassium, they are far from an adequate source
for someone seeking more of this essential nutrient.
This was simply another clever marketing campaign.
The most concentrated bio-available forms are from
plants, or organic greens, beans, tomatoes, dates, and
of course my favorite, organic apple cider vinegar with
the “mother.”
Data was recently published in both The New Eng-
land Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition which concluded that less than 2%
of American adults receive even the bare minimum
“recommended” intake of potassium today.
Imagine now the children and what they receive.
The typical American now seems to take in less than
a one quarter percent of what our ancestors did.
“Every cell in our bodies requires potassium to func-
tion.” ~ Dr. Micheal Greger, M.D.
It has been stated and written by numerous others
that there are four vital elements required for life and
they are oxygen, water, sodium, and potassium.
The largest concentration of any mineral inside our
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cells is or should be, Potassium. Potassium is essential
for life, and when enough potassium is absent from the
body, we swell, because too much sodium alone enters
the cell which of course is where one would get high
blood pressure.
Low potassium levels also equate to pain because
without enough potassium the body will inevitably
have no, or low levels of the crucial circulating steroid
hormones known as glucocorticoids.
I now have just described arthritis.
By the way, cholesterol is the precursor or initial
building block of all steroid hormones such as gluco-
corticoids.
So why would anyone deliberately endeavor to ob-
struct their bodies ability to create this molecule by
inflaming and irritating their livers?
“Vermont folk medicine holds potassium to be the
most important mineral, in fact, they key mineral in the
constellation of minerals. It is so essential to the life of
every living thing, that without it, there would be no
life.” Page 57, Folk Medicine, D.C. Jarvis, M.D.
Mother Nature has provided for us what we need
to thrive, and most of it is in what we know to be
planted.
When we ingest food, we are receiving information.
Information that can build and strengthen, or degrade,
weaken, and of course rewire the human organism.
This is OUR DNA, and I say we protect it.
“A real scientist is someone who is infinitely curious
and humble at the same time. A real scientist is some-
one who asks questions of nature, then humbly waits
for the answer.” ~ Mike Adams
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