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📖 Dr. Clayton's New Book (?)

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by Dave Clayton, MD

How One Missing Element Is Stealing Your Health, and Why Medicine Refuses to Act.

  • Why potassium may be the single most important factor in how long — and how well — you live (?)
  • The century-long suppression of potassium research, and who benefits from it (?)
  • A 30-day, 5,000 mg/day meal plan and recipes to start reversing deficiency today (?)
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Depleted explores the century of research linking potassium deficiency to disease and mortality — and the medical establishment's consistent refusal to act on it. Potassium may be the single most important, most overlooked element in human biology, essential to nearly every cell and organ, yet 98% of Americans are deficient and hypertension now affects over 80% of adults over 60. Board-certified physician Dave Clayton, MD exposes why this evidence never made it into expert guidelines — and gives you a simple, evidence-based way to reclaim your health.

For readers of Peter Attia's Outlive, Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People, and Casey Means' Good Energy.

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Why I Wrote This Book (?)

A career I built, and walked away from (?)

Just a few years ago, I was riding a successful career in medicine. I had left a prestigious practice on Manhattan's Upper East Side to move to La Jolla, CA, where I worked at one of Southern California's top health systems. It was there that my research led me to a century-old secret to health and longevity, hidden in plain sight among thousands of research papers that never see the light of day.

Excited to share this with my patients, I embarked on a crusade that earned me no laurels — instead, it made me unemployable at large health systems. But there were other ways to spread my message. I turned to social media, posting my ideas on YouTube and reaching an audience in the millions. As success stories rolled in from around the world, I rededicated my life to changing the way we treat the single most prevalent disease in the developed world.

"In the 1960s, dozens of people were rushed to emergency surgery when Big Pharma tried to hijack potassium and monopolize its use. Rather than force them to pay the price for their malfeasance, the FDA banned not the drug, but the essential element that would have made their drugs obsolete."

Since that time, over 98% of the U.S. population has become deficient in this mineral, and hypertension — the most common chronic disease in America — now affects nearly 80% of older adults, outpacing both diabetes and obesity. Despite an enormous body of evidence, the curative potential of potassium remains notably absent from medical school curricula, educational conferences, and expert guidelines.

98%
of Americans are deficient in potassium
80%+
prevalence of hypertension in adults over 60
$500B
spent on antihypertensive drugs in the past 25 years
50%
lower mortality risk for those who supplement potassium
Inside the Book (?)

What you'll walk away knowing (?)

Depleted leans on peer-reviewed research to explain the essential functions of potassium in your body — and how a century of suppressed science kept it out of your doctor's office.

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Why potassium is essential (?)

How potassium functions in your cells and organs, and why deficiency shows up as everything from muscle cramps to heart disease.

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The century of suppressed research (?)

The history of how clinical data on potassium was spun, buried, and kept out of medical school curricula and expert guidelines.

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Why medications aren't the answer (?)

How most blood pressure drugs are really treating a potassium deficiency — without ever naming the root cause.

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How Big Pharma and the FDA responded (?)

The 1960s incident that led the FDA to restrict potassium itself, rather than the drugs that misused it — a decision still felt today.

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How to get enough potassium safely (?)

What a high-potassium diet looks like, how to read your labs, and what you need to know about supplementation.

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A complete action plan (?)

A 30-day, 5,000 mg/day meal plan with recipes and tables that fit into any popular diet.

Table of Contents

Five parts, one overlooked element (?)

  • Introduction and background on Dr. Clayton
  • Why your doctor doesn't know what I know
  • What is potassium and why is it important?
  • Potassium and blood pressure
  • Medications are really treating potassium deficiency
  • What else affects blood pressure?
  • Potassium and chronic disease
  • It's not family history or genetics
  • Potassium and longevity
  • Suppressed research on potassium: a history
  • Pharma profits from disinformation
  • Spinning research is nothing new in medicine
  • Potassium isn't the only thing they're hiding
  • How do you know if you're getting enough potassium?
  • Labs, blood pressure and how to read them
  • What a high-potassium diet looks like
  • Supplements — what you need to know
  • 30-day meal plan (5,000 mg/day)
  • Recipes
  • Tables
Dave Clayton, MD
About the Author

A crusade that cost him a career — and reached millions instead

David Clayton, MD, MBA, is a board-certified internist whose work focuses on hypertension, nutrition, and preventive medicine. Over the past decade, he has devoted thousands of hours to investigating the scientific literature on potassium and cardiovascular health — a century of research that convinced him potassium plays a far more significant role in hypertension and healthy aging than current medical practice recognizes.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Clayton is an educator with a substantial public platform. His YouTube channel has attracted more than 165,000 subscribers and 13 million views through evidence-based videos on potassium, blood pressure, longevity, bone health, and nutrition.

Before entering medicine, Dr. Clayton earned an MBA from Columbia University and worked in healthcare banking in New York City. He later received his medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School after completing a bachelor's degree in chemical biology at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also the author of The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living (Simon & Schuster) and Mastering Health from the Inside Out.

🎓 Board-Certified Physician, MD
💼 MBA, Columbia University
📺 165K+ YouTube Subscribers · 13M+ Views
📚 Author, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living (Simon & Schuster)
🔬 Published Researcher, Cardiovascular Medicine

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