I don’t really have issues with using salt. When I make all my own food, I generally eat 1,500-2,000 mg per day, which isn’t a lot…but I don’t care. Which is why I’ve always ignored sodium-free salt.
What I do sometimes care about, however, is the fact that my diet is always well under the FDA recommendation for potassium. I eat a lot of vegetables and some fruit, and I almost never hit it. I’m not sure what they are expecting you to eat, exactly, but apparently, not what I’m eating.
Also, when one is losing a lot of water from dieting, heat or exertion, it’s easy to not feel your best from electrolyte issues. Gatorade is either loaded with sugar or contains fake sweeteners, and is generally a pretty jive plastic food anyway.
Magnesium and calcium are easy to supplement, but potassium only comes in 99mg pills. The RDA is around 4.7g, so that’s a lot of pills – generally the whole bottle! Also, when I’ve taken potassium on an empty stomach, I’ve gotten a horrible stomach ache, so I will never do that again.
So, an old answer is to swap out some of your sea salt for salt substitute.
With 610mg of potassium per 1/4 teaspoon, it’s the best option in potassium supplementation.
I have to use this stuff, too. I’ll usually put about 1/4 teaspoon in a liter of water. I’m not sure why, but it seems to vastly improve the flavor of our local tapwater.
I bought some bottle water at Costco recently, and it has calcium, magnesium and potassium salts added. It’s just regular drinking water – it’s not special mineral water or anything.
I thought that was kind of interesting.