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Sodium Supplementation for Ultrarunning with Alan McCubbin PhD | Koopcast Episode 159

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What's the Crossover Point of Blood Soda?

The crossover point seems to happen for the majority of people with normal kind of sweat sodium concentrations around that 40 millimoles per liter. That crossover point comes at about 50 to 60 percent replacement, and if you're a very low salt sweater, it doesn't really come in until about 85, 90% replacement. If you've got extremely salty sweat, maybe lower that value a little bit. And if you've got very unsalted sweat, maybe you can not worry about it so much until you're 80% plus. We're going to leave the athletes with this since we just talked about salty sweat. How can an athlete get a fix on that? Because that's like the end of

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