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Body Fluids and Hydration Status

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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Why Do You Drink Electrolytes When You Sweat?

A lot of people think that when they sweat, they're losing all these electrolytes. But it's so variable depending how much salt or electrolytes you lose,. You can tell like when you sweat, if you were to do a workout and you had a cap on and you take it off, do you have that white salty rims? See, I don't ever. So I don't lose much salt in my sweat, but you might lose more salt. Some people sweat more so than others. And then you see that like at the end of almost every game, they just go and skull a whole lot of water, right? Yeah.

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