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

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How to Get a Balanced Body in the Ultra Marathon World

Sodium is just so much larger and so much like more like literally more difficult to ingest in the small amount of volume that you're trying to replace on the sodium side. It's very easy to get out of balance. Yes, you're losing sodium, but you're losing proportionally more water compared to sodium. But all of that fluid leaves. So you're losing, yes, you're lose water. The final sweat sodium concentration on the skin surface for a whole body is typically between about 20 and maybe 70 75 millimoles per liter.

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