He is correct. It is salts, primarily sodium and potassium salts if I believe for Gaterade.
The reason one needs lots of salt when they are in a very hot environment is not only because you tend to sweat it out. The whole premis of the formulation of gaterade is wrong from what I can determine. It is my understanding that they analyzed sweat and then made gatorade match it in the electrolytes. They assume that what you sweat out needs to be replaced with exactly the same thing. Tests run in the Siberia indicate this is incorrect. According to the book "Biological Transmutations" (1), one really needs salt, sodium chloride, and lots of it under these conditions. Then they sweat a combination of sodium chloride and potassium chloride, with less sodium and more potassium as you get hotter and hotter. The reason is as simple as it is controversial. Many tests have been run, and every one has supported the fact that when one is in an extremely hot environment, the sodium intake goes up, sodium elimination goes down, and the potassium elimination goes up without any obvious source for the potassium. There is lots of data to support this, and data is suppose to trump theory, which says it is impossible, but the body under these conditions appears to transmute sodium to potassium. This is endothermic, and allows the body to maintain a temperature under 100F even when wet bulb temperature is 105 or higher, which should be an impossibility. Thus under those conditions, adding potassium to the intake is not only not necessary, but can lead to heart problems since the body must not only get rid of that potassiium chloride, but that it makes by transmuting the soduim to potassium as well. Marshall 1. Biological Transmutation, C. L. Kervran, published by Beekman Publishers, originally published in France in 1966, tanslated to english by Crosby Lockwood in 1971, First english publication 1980. Present edition published 1998. [email protected] wrote: > There have been several mentions of taking Gatorade with CS to help > the CS work better. I understand it is the electrolytes in the > Gatorade that is the factor. What exactly are electrolytes? My dad > said it is salt. > Thanks, > Carol
