I am eating a lot of bananas - they are a good source of potassium but can you have too much potassium?

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excess potassium is excreted in your urine. don't worry about eating too many bananas.

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Can you have too much - If you keep eating potassium rich foods (like banana), to the exclusion of all other foods, surely your potassium levels will rise.

Too much potassium is not good- it can affect the very delicate sodium/potassium pump, on which most of your body depends. And you might, if the levels are high enough, spontaneously combust. Which would be fun to watch so, keep up with the bananas and set up a web-cam for the big flare-off.

too much potassium will make you look like a monkey.

Too much of anything can be bad for you. Eat in moderation

no you cant , you're not going to turn into potassium man or anything . look over there ! it's a bird ! it's a plane ! no ! it's potassium man !

too much banana cause constipation

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