Potassium to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

It is my contention that rheumatoid arthritis is either caused by a potassium deficiency or is greatly enabled by one.^1–3 Dr. Reza Rastmanesh has performed a clinical trial that establishes this .⁴ Potassium should be automatically prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis, because getting potassium up to normal from the low values in all RA patients is slow, even with a high unprocessed vegetable diet.^5,6 There are tasty foods that are especially rich in potassium .⁷ However, it is important that thiamine (vitamin B-1) be adequate when supplementing with potassium, because heart disease cannot materialize when both are deficient, but will show up if only one of those is deficient .⁸ This is probably the primary reason why heart disease is a main cause of death in rheumatoid arthritis patients. In view of the fact that this is not considered by current rheumatologists, it would be very valuable for you to bring it into your future research. It is not only that potassium is not considered by physicians in regard to RA; most of them do not even believe that a potassium deficiency is likely. This even though many of them prescribe what are actually supplements, but prescribed under euphemistic terms such as salt substitutes, sodium-free baking powder, ORT salts (oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea), polarizing solutions, GIK (glucose, insulin, potassium) salts, vegetables, or glucosamine. A deficiency is further defined out of existence by defining the blood serum content normal as 4.2 when the actual figure is 4.8.