After reading about how one can inexpensively up their potassium levels with no-salt or some other sort of potassium salts, I thought I'd try them. YE-UCK! I just couldn't get that sort of bitter taste out of my mouth, so I did some shopping around and discovered that I could make my own pills and get rid of that yucky taste!

San Francisco Herb Company sells the gel-caps and the filler very, very inexpensively. I have a friend who lives in SF, so was able to pick them up for me, since they have a minimum order of $30.00. But I did some calling around and discovered that most health food/herb stores carry them, albeit a bit more expensively. The Cap-m-Quik filler cost anywhere from $10.95 to $13.47 USD at the places I called (as opposed to $6.95 at SFHerb), and anywhere from $12.00 for 100 caps at Rite-Aid to $10.00 a pound at a little herb store in town. A package of about 500 weighs 2 oz.

Anyway, thought I'd pass that on for any of you others with muscle cramps (read the standard warning about taking potassium supplements, though!).