hypokalemia

So he died from hypokalemia and other reasons, but the main (or only) reason for his hypokalemia was the licorice habit.

However, one of the symptoms is hypokalemia (low potassium) and I think the Dutch salt is potassium based so maybe it's actually helpful.

If they did, then you would have known if you had hypokalemia Furthermore, your timeline does not prove causality.

Further investigation revealed a recent change to a liquorice-containing candy as the likely cause of his hypokalemia.

A fun side effect of hypokalemia is that your muscles get really sore, like you just did a full body workout.

Depending on the diet, hypokalemia (too little potassium in the body) is also possible.

Well, the mechanism through which licorice might cause you to die is hypokalemia, which causes heart disease, which causes you to die.

Do you have anything to back up the idea that an otherwise healthy diet would counteract the very specific problem of hypokalemia?

No, hypokalemia causes your heart to stop beating.

Depending on the risk factors (prolonged surgery, open surgery, opioid use, hypokalemia, NG tube placement) postoperative ileus is seen in 10-20% of people after GI surgery.

These 4 conditions create a high risk of hyponatremia and/or hypokalemia (too low content in the body of sodium and/or potassium, because they are eliminated too quickly from the body).

This may cause hyponatremia or hypokalemia (too low sodium or potassium concentration in the blood), which are extremely dangerous and they may lead to death if not diagnosed correctly in time.

Lastly, I don’t buy that you corrected a symptomatic hypokalemia with a “couple handfuls of baby spinach”.

Hypokalemia is rarely fatal because the symptoms are obviously alarming > And I misunderstood for a good reason, because this conversation started with someone joking that they "knew" licorice was poisonous because it tasted bad.

You mean that "Oh I'm having constant headaches and my heart is playing King Crimson songs but it's probably just sugar so I don't have to do anything about it" is a reasonable attitude, or do you mean for me to prove to you that hypokalemia has symptoms?

So you could say that "man dies due from hypokalemia due to excessive licorice consumption not counterbalanced by having an otherwise healthy diet" which is possibly more nuanced, and possibly more (or less) helpful depending on what your purpose is to clarify or simplify things.

Hypokalemia has been observed with arrhythmias in cases of intoxication.