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While true, this is overblown. RDA for potassium intake is 3500-5000mg daily for an adult male. Most people do not get close to this amount. Potassium supplements are 99mg per pill. You have to take a lot of pills to reach that level. Getting too much potassium by eating potassium-rich foods would be difficult without an underlying kidney disorder.

Having said that, don’t be a dumb-a* and take too much of a good thing.

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It depends on how you take it. If you chug almost liter of coconut water (like I did) you can get palpitations (like I did). That has >500mg potassium in a form more bioavailable than say a banana or butternut squash.

Also the RDA is not something you should have all at once. That’s a sure way to disrupt your heart.

I've experienced palpitations after having Indian food, could coconut milk cause that?

A medium sized potato has that amount, I doubt it’d be the coconut milk to blame. Also, coconut water != coconut milk

Its common after eating certain kinds of foods.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22416-heart-p...

A liter of coconut water also contains quite a bit of sugar, which might have contributed to your palpitations.

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