Designs for Health K+2 Potassium - 300mg Two Forms of Potassium - Potassium Bicarbonate + Glycinate Pills - Supplement Support to Help Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure Levels (120 Capsules)

Background (explains how I found my way to this product):---------------------------------------------------------First let me say, I am trying to reach the US RDA for adults of 4.7g of Potassium per day to combat severe edema. I was rarely salting my foods, but I was hopeful that low Potassium (about 2g/day) with above recommended Sodium intake (>=1.5g/day, not good) were to blame. Upon finally getting near 4g/day of Potassium including from supplementation, not only did I finally get control over my edema, but I started to experience many positive medical effects that I was ailing from and didn't realize getting the right amount of Potassium was such a necessity. (not only do we need 4.7g/day of Potassium, but it is necessary to keep the Potassium to Sodium ratio a little less than 5:1).I am only interested in Potassium in forms that are most abundant in our foods to get the highest availability of Potassium from supplementation. Although, Potassium Chloride is one of them, apparently too much of it in this form can be a bad thing, as I explain below. I researched what, if any, are the other forms of Potassium commonly found in foods. From research information from credible sites on the Internet, it became abundantly clear that Potassium Bicarbonate was another form.I googled for Potassium Bicarbonate supplements and there is barely any out there. That's how I came across this product. Not only does it have 2 forms of Potassium most commonly found in the foods we eat that wasn't in the form of Potassium Chloride, it is also void of all those other ingredients that came along with the other brands of Potassium Chloride pills.Truly Vegetarian now!---------------------I received this order this week, and it is vegetarian capsules. It no longer lists "gelatin" in "Other Ingredients:" as another reviewer had noticed. It now says (only), "Other Ingredients: Microcrystalline cellulose, vegetable sterate."Benefits of not overdoing Potassium Chloride by using this K+2 Potassium supplement:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In fact, these pills are working so great, even in immediate release form which I take with food for maximum Potassium absorption, I am not having heart palpitation side effects as I also explain below that I did incur with one of the 2 brands Potassium Chloride pills that I was taking. I can even now use Potassium Chloride salt products to add a little salt to my foods with no adverse effects. Thank goodness for this product.Before I bought this product, I was supplementing about 1.2g/day of Potassium from Potassium Chloride pills. The rest I have to get must come from foods (yes, 1.2g/day was a somewhat arbitrary amount to use for supplementation). I had been using slow release Potassium Chloride pills at 1.2g/day from a national food market whose brand name is on the Potassium Chloride supplements I bought from them. I didn't know they were slow release tabs until I bought "Alta" Potassium Chloride pills from Amazon. The latter is immediate release.I would take 4 pills (99mg each x 4 pills = almost 400mg) of either at each meal ( x 3 meals = 1.2g/day). With the food market's brand of Potassium Chloride, at the dosage I was taking, I had no side effects. With the Alta's Potassium Chloride, I got heart palpitations on the first day I used them. I am combating low hypertension without medication, which I am sure is playing a role here, but I didn't realize that the food market's brand name Potassium Chloride pills were slow release. So when I took Alta's Potassium Chloride (KCl), I got a full immediate hit of Potassium Chloride only slowed down by the food I ate it with. With the food market's brand name of Potassium Chloride, I not only benefited from getting the maximum possible by eating it with food, I got the added benefit of slow release when taken with food.By not taking or minimizing the amount of Potassium Chloride supplements I take, now I can safely salt my foods with Potassium Chloride when needed. I buy no salt or low salt products now, which I never did before and put "better" salt back in using Potassium Chloride (in food salt form, not supplement form) further lowering my Sodium intake while increasing my Potassium intake. A win-win deal. :-)Interested in what product of salt I use for my food now and why?-----------------------------------------------------------------Just a tip about using Potassium Chloride to replace Sodium Chloride (common table salt): some brands of Potassium Chloride, or Potassium based salt... however you want to remember it, have a very thin line for taste tolerance from being just right to overwhelming the taste of the food you are trying to salt it on with an unpleasant metal taste. I found one product on Amazon that has a much greater margin of error when salting with it, which is so helpful, especially when new to using Potassium Chloride to substitute for table salt.So, what is the brand of Potassium Chloride based salt product I am now using with the wider margin for error when salting my foods? It's "No Salt". The one other product I tried that had a very, very, low margin for error when salting my foods is "Nu-Salt". I won't touch that stuff now. I bought both Potassium products from Amazon. I do realize that everyone's tastes are different, so you may actually have a different experience and prefer "Nu-Salt". For me, I'm sticking with "No Salt"... and yes, there is less Potassium/gram in "No Salt" than in "Nu-Salt", which may be the sole difference in taste for me.One of the other health benefits of getting the right amount of Potassium:--------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to know one of the other, many unexpected improvements I got when focusing on my Potassium intake and reducing my Sodium intake to the ratio of about 5:1, respectively?Potassium lowers blood pressure; Sodium raises it. Yes, I had a nearly instant observation of lower (average) blood pressure when I started to get near the 4.7g/day of Potassium goal (and, respectively, near the almost 5:1 ration of Potassium intake to Sodium intake.) Don't forget, I have mild hypertension and even I noticed a difference.I know it was just by several digits on both blood pressure numbers, but I will take any improvement I can get.Sorry for any redundancy you see in other reviews from me about Potassium:-------------------------------------------------------------------------I will post pretty much this same review for the "Alta" Potassium Chloride pills and the 2 brands of Potassium Chloride salts, "No Salt" and "Nu-Salt", so if you see my posts repeat itself, please don't get upset with me. I let you know ahead of time. :-)

My gut tolerates this stuff extremely well, but I also always take it with food. To anyone wondering what it means to take it with food, even just a little snack is good. Just eat first. You just need something to get the digestive juices going and you want some sort of a buffer between the supplement and the stomach.Anyway, my potassium levels were very low, but after using this supplement to help me get them up, I feel fantastic. I didn't know I needed to feel better, but wow, I'm much happier. Yes it has lifted my mood! It's more than that though: my whole body feels better!Here's how I take them: I open the capsule up, pour it onto a spoon and take it straight off the spoon and I swallow it QUICKLY with water. I can't swallow capsules like these. So I put some water in my mouth and I quickly put the potassium in my mouth and swallow fast because otherwise it kinda burns when it reacts with my saliva and water. Once it's swallowed, it's fine. So you can definitely open them up and take just the powder, but be sure you find some way to get it down fast so that it spends almost no time at all in your mouth.Anyway, so yeah, 5 stars easily. This is an excellent potassium supplement!

Fantastic quality product anything by designs for Health is top notch.

Product is great. Amazon needs to improve packaging so bottles dont arrive broken.

Potassium is great for cleaning your gut from so much junk. I started feeling great after drinking this. My system has been responding great to it. It really works!

Great

Been using it for years! Extremely pleased.

I have hypokalemia, which is a deficiency of potassium and a couple other minerals and vitamins. I started taking grocery store potassium, and they soon weren't working. I discovered that the manufacturer was limited by the government in the amount of absorbable potassium they were allowed to put in their pills. The front said "500 mg." of potassium, but after calling them I discovered I was only getting 99 mgs. So, I went on a hunt for higher doses of potassium that my body could absorb. After only one week of taking these, and new magnesium tablets, my blood pressure went down to normal and has stayed there! And all my other symptoms haven't returned either! This has made a huge difference in my work and in my life!