Life Link's Potassium Orotate 300mg 100Tabs

About Potassium Orotate Potassium orotate is a mineral salt that is normally found in small amounts in all living things. Each molecule of potassium orotate consists of a molecule of orotic acid in which one of the hydrogen atoms is replaced by a potassium atom.Orotate (orotic acid) is a biochemical substance made by all living cells. It is a necessary raw material for making the genetic material: RNA and DNA.1Potassium is an essential mineral throughout the biological world, and is the most prevalent positive-charged ion in animal cells. This element helps to regulate the amounts of water and electrolytes in cells and plays an important role in nerve conduction and muscle contraction.2Disorders and symptoms linked to potassium deficiency include:2, 3 diarrhea, increased urination, vomiting, muscle weakness, paralytic ileus, cardiovascular and heartbeat abnormalities, decreased reflex response, respiratory paralysis, growth retardation, diabetes and insulin resistance, and rheumatoid arthritis.The Institute of Medicine recommends that adults consume at least 4, 700 mg/day of potassium. But it is thought that most Americans and Europeans consume far less than that.4What we can"™t tell you In the U.S. and some other industrialized countries, government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have adopted censorship as a method for intensifying their control over supplement users and their suppliers. Thus, FDA regulations prohibit us from telling you that any of our products are effective as medical treatments, even if they are, in fact, effective.Accordingly, we will limit our discussion of potassium orotate to a brief summary of relevant research, and let you draw your own conclusions about what medical conditions it may be effective in treating.Potassium orotate"™s history of use in clinical investigations dates back to the 1950s.5 It was found to be useful in a variety of medical areas, including:liver damage skin ailments excess uric acid in the blood heart damage wounds viral hepatitis growth and maturation lung damage tuberculosis diabetes epilepsy anxiety bone fractures kidney failure blood circulation Dr. Hans Nieper, the innovative German physician, 6 popularized potassium orotate as a supplement during the 1970s and 1980s by using it to treat or prevent the following conditions:7, 3cardiovascular disease wounds immune suppression after surgery Nieper considered orotates to be superior to carbonates, chlorides, sulfates, and other negative-charged ions as bioavailability enhancers for minerals like potassium.3Hans Nieper was a controversial figure whose treatments were denounced by many in the medical profession and were targeted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "” despite the fact that these critics had done essentially no investigation of these treatments, and despite the fact that countless thousands of Nieper"™s patients and followers found the treatments to be superbly effective.6 Nieper died in 1998, but