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Clearly a misdiagnosis, but the title is hyperbole. You don't fix 'critically low' potassium with 'just bananas', and this woman should have received IVs, possibly at an accelerated rate needing intensive care monitoring. Lets not spin this awful misdiagnosis away into some fruitarian nightmare.

https://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000122000000000000000-1...

No bananas on this list. For some reason they are known to contain potassium but there are much better sources.

AFAIK potassium is contained mostly in banana peels, so eating banana wouldn't helpful in the case.

She just needed bananas¹.

¹ A blood panel and potassium supplements

Click bait title.

Tldr. Misdiagnosed with Sepsis, needed potassium supplementation. Article is also more of a biography on authors mother and had no analysis of why diagnosis was missed

Tangentially, I’ve been eating 1-2 brazilnuts per day to make sure I’m getting my selenium. It has made some differences for me.

What differences? I've noticed that selenium often fails because it can't find a certain element that is actually there. Specially if the window isn't focused, it gives false negatives a lot. I've switched test frameworks and had the same problems.