Causes. Hypokalemia can result from one or more of these medical conditions: Inadequate potassium intake. Perhaps the most obvious cause is insufficient consumption of potassium (that is, a low-potassium diet) or starvation. However, without excessive potassium loss from the body, this is a rare cause of hypokalemia. Usually only seen in anorexia nervosa patients and people on a ketogenic diet. Gastrointestinal or skin loss. A more common cause is excessive loss of potassium, often associated with heavy fluid losses that flush potassium out of the body.
Letâs therefore look in more detail at the whole topic of silence and how it is possible to use it both successfully and unsuccessfully. The dictionary simply defines silence generally as âa lack of sound or noiseâ and in the particular context of communication it means âa period of time in which people do not talkâ.
For other uses, see The Sound of Silence (disambiguation). The Sound of Silence, originally The Sounds of Silence, is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964.