Hydration, Water, and Electrolytes: How to Stay Hydrated as an Athlete | Episode 7

Todays episode covers topics regarding hydration, water, and electrolytes. These are all crucial tools for athletes, and anybody engaging in physical training to ensure peak performance. Expect to learn the role water and electrolytes play in the body, how our body regulates our levels of water and electrolytes, why ocean water is dehydrating, the effectiveness of different hydration beverages on the market, whether certain drinks can dehydrate you, and so much more.

02:10 What role does water play in the body?

09:27 What are electrolytes and what do they do?

11:59 Where within our bodies are water and electrolytes stored?

16:12 How do our kidneys regulate our water and salt levels?

30:42 How much salt is in the body? What is Normal Saline?

34:12 Why is ocean water dehydrating?

51:12 Which hydration beverages are the best?

1:20:04 Can certain beverages dehydrate you?

1:29:32 An extreme example of dehydration from my time as an EMT.

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