Hormones Matter

Category: Mineralcorticoids
The role of thiamine in potassium deficiency

Thiamine Deficiency Causes Intracellular Potassium Wasting

Whilst I always suspected a direct link between potassium and thiamine deficiency (outside of the context of refeeding syndrome), I had not come across any direct research elucidating the mechanisms – until NOW. In short, thiamine deficiency causes intracellular potassium wasting.Animal research in rats showed that chronic thiamine deficiency increases sodium tissue content in heart, […]

hyperaldosteronism hypertension

Decades to Diagnosis: What the Heck is Wrong with Conventional Medicine?

My first missed diagnosis was Conn’s Syndrome (primary hyperaldosteronism). It took 15 years of medication resistant hypertension, eventual loss of potassium, muscle cramps and fatigue before I was finally properly diagnosed.My second missed diagnosis was Late Stage Lyme. This one took 20 years to finally be discovered.Did having one make the other worse, enable the […]