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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Nutrition & Supplementation for Fitness

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Water and Electrolytes Can Improve Mental Performance, Physical Performance, and Endurance

If you are under-hydrated or dehydrated, then there is a clear negative effect on your body. As I increase the level or improve the level of hydration, things get better. Being dehydrated is not only going to reduce performance, but because of the mental aspect which we just walked through. You start getting the 3, 4, 5% dehydration. That's incredibly important for endurance. Your blood becomes viscous. It gets hard to pump through. Quite literally, it can kill you. This is what we call hyponatremia. If you're doing Iron Man and Kona marathon in October...you'll finish between 2-15% of people who are into

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