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What Are the Benefits of Potassium Gluconate Supplements?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Erin Beck

Potassium gluconate is a type of potassium supplement. Potassium is an electrolyte, or a mineral in your blood and other body fluids that carry an electric charge. It is important to keep a balance of electrolytes in your body. Most people can get all the potassium they need from a healthy diet.

Erin Beck began writing professionally in 2008 as an opinion columnist for the West Virginia University student newspaper, "The Daily Athenaeum." She has worked in health promotion at the university and as a communications intern at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She has a Bachelor of Science in journalism and a Master of Public Health, both from West Virginia University.