[hinkley]

Potassium chloride is what they use to stop mammal hearts in euthenasia/capital punishment.

I think the FDA might have some reasons to prefer potassium be spread out across meals instead of taken in a lump sum all at once (think also, children eating vitamins as candy. I know someone who almost died of iron poisoning as a child before they made the pills bitter)

[0cf8612b2e1e]

That’s intravenous KCL. Significantly different absorption than taking it orally. Wikipedia is showing a roughly 100x difference in the LD50 of oral vs intravenous.

If you tried to ingest a lethal dose of KCL, I would put huge odds on you first retching out you guts. ~190 grams orally to hit the LD50