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Ben Greenfield Life

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Are You Hyperhydrating Before Workout?

If you want to feel decent when you're working out, consume about 12 hundred milligrams of sodium. That will not be enough to prevent that drop in effective circulating blood volume. If they are sweating alot, you are losing a good amount of salt and you should rehydrate with an appropriate amount. Once i began increasing my salt and electrolite intake, which i still do, i easily exceed six grams of salt on a daily basis. Yet, when i did a racing for team time ex we used to have a exercise physiologist who would come around and do sweat sodium analyses using these patches. It seems as though the industry should have come along during this time.

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