Potassium is super important and people don't talk about it much. I recently found out about it as a way to lower blood pressure, which my bp is dangerously high and doctor was useless (as usual). Turns out, there's a balance between potassium and sodium, and insufficient potassium makes bp go crazy. I'm still not certain this is my problem, but it's good to know. Also, potatoes have lots of potassium, assuming they're grown in good soil. 

The starch thing is what gets me - I look at Asians and they're young looking into mid 40's, some even older, and they eat wayyyy more starch than westerners do. I mean, they look like teenagers, or at worst early 30s... When I lived there, even though the tap water was polluted and the air was polluted (so bad there would be yellow fog), I still felt healthier than I do in the US. I consciously eat healthily and exercise and I still mostly feel like crap, but back in China I didn't give a fuck and every day I became healthier and stronger. Something is killing us here... Idk what, but I know its happening. Maybe the GMO food, maybe pesticides, maybe water fluoridation, maybe 5g signals - idk, I have to take it all seriously because I know how I feel and how I used to feel. We're resorting to drastic diets, trying to feel better - like, I love beef, but we shouldn't have to go full carnivore to feel okay. They don't have to do that in China. I don't think they do it in Korea, Japan, or Thailand - I've been to all of them and their food is so amazing its out of this world, and when I'm there I feel amazing. I really truly believe something is killing us here.