I signed up for the study; I have no tolerance for bad tastes, so I'm going to swallow pills, not put weird salt on my food, but maybe it will work like that, who knows.
If I drop out before completing four weeks I will resolve according to whether I noticed results before that.
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3.00There are a lot of RCTs that measure the effect of potassium supplementation on blood pressure. Surely some of those must have tracked body weight changes in participants as well?
I searched for a minute or two and found this https://sci-hub.se/10.1097/00004872-200107000-00019. 2.3 additional grams of potassium per day, for 12 weeks. No change in body weight.
@NataliaMendonca Another RCT [1] similarly found no change in body weight after 6 weeks of potassium supplementation, though the dose was lower (about 1 additional gram per day)
[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/BAD451CD40EEC5B843ED671D6E323C4F/S0007114503002435a.pdf/the-effect-of-low-dose-potassium-supplementation-on-blood-pressure-in-apparently-healthy-volunteers.pdf
@NataliaMendonca Now I found a meta-analysis of RCTs, comparing potassium supplementation trials with sodium reduction trials: https://moscow.sci-hub.se/1061/4e68879c69bc7d733f6b5b33c3aace5a/geleijnse2003.pdf. It says
> The median change in body weight during intervention was –0.5 kg in sodium trials (range –3.0 to +4.5 kg) and –0.2 kg in potassium trials (range –1.0 to +1.6 kg).
The sodium reduction trials lasted a median of 4 weeks, and the potassium supplementation trials a median of 6 weeks.
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