Cassie alerted me to this story and I’m not going to try to interpret it. It’s a great website and the article uses REAL data to explain that. Here’s the quote that convinced me of the importance of my daily Alkaline Booster:

In brief, across the normal dietary variation for this common mineral, intakes in the lower range for the population (i.e., those in the lowest quarter) are associated with about twice the mortality risk compared to those whose potassium intakes are in the highest quarter.

Click here to read it yourself. And perhaps you’ll appreciate why I’m so careful to keep up my intake of all the essential alkaline minerals!