More potassium content than any other meat. Potassium is important for muscle function, skin, and prevents hair loss.

Potassium is one of those minerals the majority of people have a deficit of.

Daily recommended intake of potassium for men is 3,400 mg, and for women it's 2,600 mg.

Pork has 72% more potassium than beef.

Potassium is not important. Not because you don't actually need it but because it is in so many things.

>>21479444 (OP)
But the zoomer influencer in the other thread said its bad

>>21479455
No, it's really not. It's in potatoes and avocado, and not much else (there are traces in veggies, but it's never enough).

Even then you need to eat 1 lbs of potatoes, or 5 avocados a day to meet your daily requirement.

In comparison, with pasta you need to eat 15 lbs, and whole rice 8 lbs.

>>21479460
Give it 10 years and he'll be bald.

>>21479460
Or just eat a banana. Bananas have the most potassium of like any food.

>>21479494
You need to eat 11 bananas a day to meet your potassium needs. Not practical, and even if it was it's not technical either because that's a lot of carbs.

>>21479501
should someone eat 700 grams (approx 1.5 lbs) of porkchop instead?

>>21479444 (OP)
I'll just eat a nice halal banana instead.

>>21479505
No, but if you balance your diet, eating maybe 0.5 lbs of pork, you've already 1/3rd of your way there. You eat a few potatoes, maybe some spinach or avocado and you're there. There are also potassium supplements.

But the point is to reach that recommended daily intake, and prevent baldness and bad skin.

Any "recommended daily intake" that mandates a ridiculous diet like 20 or 10 potatoes and a pound of pork every day just to complete one nutrient is bullshit, like eating 200g of protein a day. Humans and the animals they evolved from never had regular access to anything like that.

Your body can synthesize enough nutrients from basic foods as long as you are getting enough of them.

Let me ask you this. Why do you think Americans are getting bald at increased rates?

How do you think the body will react if it's in a constant potassium deficiency? It will stop wasting that potassium on creating hair on the top of your head because that's not necessary for survival.

>>21479533
>Your body can synthesize enough nutrients from basic foods as long as you are getting enough of them.
Bro, potassium in an element. Your body isn't fusing atoms.

Electrolyte ranking:
Magnesium>>chlorine>potassium=calcium>>>>>>>>>sodium

>>21479460
Anon if potassium was as hard to come by in general food intake then people would be having arrhythmias left and right. Think about the logical conclusions to your points before spouting bullshit.

>>21479559
>Anon if potassium was as hard to come by in general food intake then people would be having arrhythmias left and right.
Both hyperkalemi (high potassium) and hypokalemi (low potassium) can cause arrhythmias.

>>21479444 (OP)
I HATE potassium! I WISH it never existed!!!

>>21479573
No shit. Now please tell me how pointing out that high potassium in the body can also contribute to arrhythmias does anything to strengthen your point or address mine. You are lauding pork as a source of high potassium and saying that it's not easy getting potassium in your diet. All you're doing by pointing this out is letting everyone know that eating a lot of pork opens you up to the possibility of arrhythmias from hyperkalemia, since it's such an unusually potent source of the electrolyte.

>>21479590
Here:
>>21479559
>Anon if potassium was as hard to come by in general food intake then people would be having arrhythmias left and right.
You're insinuating that hyperkalemi is the majority cause of arrhythmias.

And as someone pointed out, you'd have to eat roughly 1.5 lbs of pork a day just to meet your daily recommended intake of potassium. So you'd have to eat an excess of that before it becomes a problem.

Obviously it comes down to mineral balances in the body. And magnesium and potassium are the two ones that are hard to meet, and out of those two potassium is by far the hardest. Because you need roughly 400 mg of magnesium, and 4,000 mg of potassium.

>>21479597
>you're insinuating that hyperkalemia is the majority cause of arrhythmias
No dumbass, I was not saying that. Read it again. I was not attributing the majority of arrhythmias to an excess of OR a lack of potassium. I made no statement on which imbalance of potassium contributes to the majority of arrhythmias. What I DID insinuate was that your lauding of pork as the "king of Meats" due to it being a high source of potassium is misplaced, because if potassium intake in daily diet was truly a dire issue then people would be having far more arrhythmias. I enjoy pork and you are fine to say it's the "best" in your opinion but the reasoning you provide for it in this thread is fucking weak. I should not have needed to lay it out so explicitly, brainlet.

>>21479444 (OP)
>Potassium
I prefer banana, it has a better shape for eating

>>21479444 (OP)
just eat a fucking banana. Normal people don't have K issues

>>21479516
So I'm supposed to eat a chunk of pork, and multiple potatoes and bananas every day? And that just Potassium, ignoring all other nutrients daily recommended values?
Sounds to me like the recommended values are nonsense, nobody eats like this and there is absolutely no way pre-agricultural humans ate like that

>>21479822
The recommended value is set by tracking health outcomes at different intakes like blood pressure, and choosing what looks optimal. I've been wondering if it's more that people with high potassium eat a lot of veg and get good outcomes from some other cause.
Your body's really good at holding onto it anyway and doesn't get rid of much unless there's an excess so, I think it's one of those "don't worry about it" things. Unless you just eat junk food.

>>21479444 (OP)
a cup of milk has like 400mg of potassium

>>21479920
Obviously they have to track their diets, not what's in their blood at the time.

Pigs are delish

>>21479444 (OP)
pork is so god damn delicious

>>21479932
yes, my swedish milk carton says 160 mg/100 ml ; 8% of DRI/RDI

>>21479559
Are you a fucking retard? Millions of people do have arrhythmias every day you stupid nigger.

>>21479444 (OP)
One cupnof swiss chard is 1g of potassium. A wedge of watermelon is 800mg. A half cup of sweet potatoes is 500mg. A cup of brocolli 8s 500mg. A cup of beans is 1g. A half cup of raisins is 800mg.

Disingenuous faggy boy.

>>21479444 (OP)
Pork chop is the way I like to get my potassium

>>21479444 (OP)
>Potassium is one of those minerals the majority of people have a deficit of.
Get yourself kidney failure and that changes, as dialysis machines aren't good at removing excess potassium.

sausages are nice
bacon is okay
pulled pork is delicious
pork chops are meh
gammon is grim

>>21479545
>he doesn't just perform nuclear fusion in his core on raw elemental Hydrogen to create all the trace elements he needs
Smhmyhead, at all these fucking brownoids

>>21479444 (OP)
>3,400 mg
Source?
Also why not just season and cook with potassium salt