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Electrolytes: are sports drinks a scam?

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The Effects of Salt on Blood Pressure

The liquid in your cell in your blood wants to go into the cells where there's actually a higher concentration. If you have too much salt you're actually sucking water into your blood vessels. This is not good for me because my brain's already so big. Well it's another reason to know that big brains don't make people smart in fact in this case it can shut your brain down. So ultimately like that's why they give this like 2300 or like there's a range around that that's considered sort of like average healthy.

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