Sodium is the number one mineral in a blood test for good reason.
Athletes who use up their reserves of sodium in endurance races are candidates for hyponatremia, worse case it will kill.
Hydration equals salt plus water, in that order.
Every physiology process that requires water, uses salt like a sponge that water fills.
Hyponatremia status puts the body’s physiology into emergency mode. The adrenals must produce aldosterone to convert the kidneys from salt excretion ease to salt scavenger dis-ease.
Chronic hyponatremia places survival on the adrenals. The adrenals then have a choice - exhaustion or grow larger to make enough hormones to prevent hyponatremic death.
lung physiology is optimised with salt, I have an alternate take on lung physiology that discards the oxygen/ carbon dioxide gaseous exchange we were taught in the schooled daze. Oxygen is the opposite of what lungs require.
I hope you will take the time to read my article titled:
We breathe air not oxygen
You will gain an insight to lung physiology that may boost your endurance and recovery via salty strategies.
Hi Ryan
You missed one and it’s the reason you cramped up
You depleted your SALT reserves!
Sodium is the number one mineral in a blood test for good reason.
Athletes who use up their reserves of sodium in endurance races are candidates for hyponatremia, worse case it will kill.
Hydration equals salt plus water, in that order.
Every physiology process that requires water, uses salt like a sponge that water fills.
Hyponatremia status puts the body’s physiology into emergency mode. The adrenals must produce aldosterone to convert the kidneys from salt excretion ease to salt scavenger dis-ease.
Chronic hyponatremia places survival on the adrenals. The adrenals then have a choice - exhaustion or grow larger to make enough hormones to prevent hyponatremic death.
lung physiology is optimised with salt, I have an alternate take on lung physiology that discards the oxygen/ carbon dioxide gaseous exchange we were taught in the schooled daze. Oxygen is the opposite of what lungs require.
I hope you will take the time to read my article titled:
We breathe air not oxygen
You will gain an insight to lung physiology that may boost your endurance and recovery via salty strategies.