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I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!
How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything
But if you drink more water, you also need more salt.
Huh? If you have more salt, you also need more water.
🤷♂️
Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.
~Finest healthcare in the world!~
Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess
yeah, I saw that in an episode of Star Trek.
Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.
LMNT is awesome! Mango chili low key scares me. 😂
This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can't bring myself to have her try it.
I understand. It is costly. I use it because of its potency and other ingredients. But I am open to suggestions for better products.
We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.
The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.
Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).
FYI they make mango chili Peeps.
Your "pee went away"?
I'm fucking dying lmao
Wow seeing that gif was a forcible mental teleportation back into the early 90s.
Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.
Salt causes water retention.
Intake water? Like from the toilet?
Brawndo. It's got what we crave!
Electrolytes, what's that?
(To the tune of mxpx's "responsibility, what's that?")
Woah, that takes me back
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.
With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it's the fizz specifically. And if it's sodas... Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.
If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.
Unless you have hypersensitivities and can taste the sweeteners lmao. Though I have to say that most of regular sodas taste like chemicals too, so it's not that different either way
I was gonna say, I can not only taste the difference, but I also get violent diarrhea whenever I drink the zero-sugar sodas.
It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??
Even more amazing is that people paint the Monster logo (the three claw marks) on their fucking cars. Imagine getting your sense of self-worth from your overpriced energy taurine drink of choice.
Or tattoos
I had this too. After a month without sugar, I lost the taste for it. I can do a few spoons of icecream or a tiny bit of cake, but that's it. I can eat a shit ton of sweet fruit though. I ate 4 mangoes in a day. (Don't do that.)
You're not my supervisor!
Don't do drugs.
Hint: sugar is a drug
TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: "I must not be drinking enough water 🤔"
No u.
sounds like dehydration