Potassium: Benefits Side Effects Potassium is an essential mineral that acts as an electrolyte It helps your muscles contract, balances fluid in your body and helps offset sodium
Potassium - Wikipedia In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with anions to form salts) In nature, potassium occurs only in ionic salts
Potassium - Health Professional Fact Sheet The total amount of potassium in the adult body is about 45 millimole (mmol) kg body weight (about 140 g for a 175 pound adult; 1 mmol = 1 milliequivalent [mEq] or 39 1 mg potassium) [3] Most potassium resides intracellularly, and a small amount is in extracellular fluid [2-4]