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PING: Elaine Potato and Cheese SoupHi, Elaine. You posted this recipe on February 21 and I made it today for lunch. It was very tasty and is a "keeper". By some small miracle, I had every ingredient needed (with...
It sure does and right up to the time you go through renal shutdown and on to dialysis or worse. How many cereal box tops did you have to submit to get your degree. You are frightening or are you doing an internet Kavorkian. This mentality went out indoor plumbing.
A lot of data has been gathered in the running-tri community especially in marathons showing vast numbers of people experiencing various degrees of hypoglycemia( too little salt or too much water) causing problems from mild discomfort as in cramps to croaking. In short races like 5 and 10k you can by with plain water or Gatorade. Once the distance goes past that, and even more so when the temperature rises, additional salt is a necessity. While gatorbarf does have some salt it does not have enough. If you think the body will self regulate, keep up your malpractice insurance.
The numbers if people doing endurance exercise be it running. biking, tri's are all experiencing the same problem - they need more salt. FWIW, I take 300 to 600mg salt caps per hour during my races which are 5 to 22 hours. You can tell when your salt is in balance when you can urinate every couple of hours and it's not dark yellow or watery. One tests there salt needs in training so you don't have to play comes race day. Anyway too little or too much salt and your stomach shuts down, you get bloated and are in deep trouble.
Years back they would without any testing, stick an IV in your arm, buttuming dehydration for those having problems at the end of the race. Sad to say, if you are hypoglycemic and they put an IV in you, it can kill you. In the cases where you have too little salt the IV exacerbates the problem since an IV has too little salt. In effect the EMT or Doc has to determine dehydration or hypoglycemia.
So, when exercising your salt intake has to increase with your endurance. Even people that are relatively salt free in daily eating still need more - less than those that use the shaker but still more.
-DF
