If you drink something that is about the same ionic concentration as your blood, you can absorb a lot of it safely.
If you drink something much much saltier than your blood it will pull water out of your blood cells.
If you drink something with very few ions it will hydrate your blood cells, but drinking too much can burst your blood cells as they try to absorb to much.
Damn lucky I’ve been somehow drinking exactly the right amount of stuff so that I haven’t died yet
Just don’t enter any water drinking contests and you’ll be fine!
What about blood drinking contests, since that will match your daily contents?
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I remember that. Same city my office is in.
That’s why I only drink units of whole blood. On average, the under-hydrated and over-hydrated people that contributed to that unit cancel each other out, so I know I’m always working towards optimal cell hydration. Never to much or too little.
I only drink brawndo. It’s got what plants crave
Last point is definitely a myth. Yes you can die if you drink an insane amount of water, but a healthy person with a healthy diet can live purely on distilled water.
As far as I am aware it’s also still a topic of debate if a healthy person could drink seawater. Not forever, but quite a while. (Have not looked into that for a while tho)
Tldr: our bodies are insanly good at keeping us alive
I think I heard that cats can survive on seawater(not well, but better than dead). For some reason they just have baller kidneys.
Apparently the old Gatorade (before commercialization) was so salty it was gross.
Powerade has about 50% more electrolytes AKA salts than Gatorade does.
But that’s also part of the trick. It’s not just sodium chloride. The potassium is monopotassium phosphate, a salt. Sea water is 3.5% salt and almost all of it is sodium chloride. Gatorade is only about .25% salt. Sea water has 14x the amount of salt as Gatorade
Currently, one of the slogans on the bottle is “Hydrates better than water”. Do they know what ‘hydrates’ means?
But it’s what people crave!!
Salt helps you retain water long enough to absorb it
When they start an IV line, they use ‘normal saline’ [0.9% NaCl] and not pure water.
because osmotic pressure destroying your cells is bad for you
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Fun Fact: 0.9% will cause red cell lysis as well. It’s not actually isotonic, and it’s probably a hidden cause of unnecessary deaths and definitely results in inferior transfusion product quality at minimum.
But its what the plants crave!
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Isn’t gatorade a combo of salt, sugar, water and potassium? So basically, a banana with some salt on it and lots of water.
Yeah, but it has way more potassium than a banana. And more sugar. And it’s entirely liquid.
I feel like you are implying that these two things are basically equivalent, and would result in the same anticipated effects, and I’m highly skeptical. If you are an average person doing average person things, then yeah, just eat a banana and some salt. Or really, eat some spinach (which has far more potassium) and assume you’ll naturally get plenty of salt elsewhere in your diet.
On the other hand, if you are playing some high intensity sport (like American football, which the drink was invented for), then sports drinks make a lot of sense. They deliver sodium, potassium, magnesium, glycogen, and water to your body as fast as possible (short of breaking out a syringe). The banana would not be nearly as balanced for this particular need, is less convenient to consume, and takes longer to digest.
You don’t think someone could make their own?
That’s defintiely something someone could do. I’ve done it myself. It’s just not the same as a banana.
What was your recipe? That’s my point. The original gatorade was I think oj, salt and sugar, yeah?
There’s no way Gatorade has more potassium than a banana, it has like 2% your DV or something miniscule like that.
Yea, a banana has roughly 5.5x the amount of potassium
I highly doubt a banana has what plants crave
It has what plantains crave.
Once I heard neurons described as “salty bananas” because of their concentrations of K+, Na+, and Cl- ions.
Therefore, Gatorade is made of neurons.
Technically potassium is a salt too.
