Theoretical effect in human heart disease of low-sodium high-potassium diet therapy on intracellular adsorbed sodium and potassium.

Abstract

Clinical study has shown that high-potassium in addition to low-sodium diet therapy for human cardiac disease is much more effective than low-sodium diet alone or than the usual drug therapies. Analyzed by the association-induction concept of adsorbed cellular sodium and potassium, the clinically measured changes of blood sodium and potassium due to the combined diet would be expected to yield marked improvement in intracellular sodium and potassium because of the nonlinear shape of the expected cation adsorption curves. Indicated is a significant approach toward restoring normality of the intracellular cationic environment in cardiac patients.