Humans need approx 1tsp (or less) of sodium daily as an essential nutrient. I was low on sodium this morning* then spent the day at the beach in the salty ocean air, then within about 30 minutes I wasn’t dizzy and nauseous anymore. Did the ocean air provide me sodium somehow?
*(dizzy & nauseous, I know the symptoms well since I often have no sodium in my diet and I’ve learned this through experience the last 5 years and I have to consciously remember to add sodium to my diet, and if I forget then I have dizziness and nausea)
Reddit wouldn’t let me post this for some reason, Maybe because that subreddit r/askadoctor is dead, there have been no posts there for 3 years, so instead of abandoning my attempt at a post, I screenshat it and posting it here on Lemmy.
I’m not a doctor but having grown up in Florida I can tell you the answer is no. Chances are it was a coincidence and you just needed some fresh air and time for whatever you recently ate to make it’s way into your system.
You need to make sure that you supplement way more than just standard table salt. Personally I use nuun when I feel like I need some electrolytes. You can also get some lite salt and mix it with water, ice and some lemon and/or lime concentrate for flavor. You need more than what’s in the lite salt but it’s a start, especially for exercise recovery.
Oh and what exactly are you eating that has literally zero sodium? Everything from bread to meat has salt in varying amounts.
for electrolytes I take 2,000 mg potassium every day, 500 mg magnesium every day, and try to remember to get my iodized salt in.
and I drink a gallon of water a day
The food I live on is this, it’s fantastic aside from the fact it has no sodium and very little potassium so that’s why I supplement those:
And to quell any assumptions that I don’t understand nutrition, I’m literally college-certified in nutrition, I’ve lived & breathed & practiced & preached nutrition for 20 years, and this is what I look like so I think I’m doing ok 🤷🏻♀️
You most definitely do not know anything about nutrition. First off, that’s overkill for those electrolytes and it ignores the others, secondly, unless you are eating memory foam, you are definitely getting sodium, potassium, etc in your diet. Third and final, a gallon of water a day is probably overkill as well, even if you are sweating enough to need it, you probably aren’t accounting for the nutrients it’s washing out of your system.
To close. Being certified in nutrition isn’t the brag you think it is. I’m now going to block you because I don’t have time to deal with your level of insanity, I can barely handle my own.
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