watch your electrolytes

[jiminii]

Dennis Leahy watch your electrolytes

so what is that ... don't know what to eat for natural electrolytes .... was told natural in food is better

jim

[Czarek]

coconut water is a great source

[RunningDeer]

so what is that ... don't know what to eat for natural electrolytes .... was told natural in food is better
jim
A quick search from two places:

"Staying Hydrated: Electrolytes 101" (http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2012/07/19/staying-hydrated-electrolytes-101/)

There’s more to beating the heat than just drinking water. Electrolytes are important nutrients that help maintain your body’s fluid balance.

Electrolyte Basics

Electrolytes are substances that conduct an electric current. In the body, they help to facilitate actions of the nervous system, maintain proper fluid and acid-base balance, and allow muscles to contract.

Many important minerals also act as electrolytes – some of the major players for healthy muscles are sodium, chloride, potassium and calcium.


Where to Find Electrolytes

You can find electrolytes in a wide variety of foods and beverages. If these foods are regular fixtures in your diet, you can rest assured you’re getting enough.

Sports Drinks

A good choice after a sweaty workout, sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade have fluid and carbs along with sodium and potassium.

Orange Juice

One cup of OJ has 12 percent of the daily recommendation for potassium. You’ll also get vitamin C — it isn’t an electrolyte but it does help keep muscles healthy.

Coconut Water

It’s the new trend in sports drinks (but isn’t actually a sports drink). If you’re a fan of the taste coconut water, it comes jam-packed with potassium. It also contains a small amount of sodium.

Fruits & Veggies

Potatoes, raisins, bananas, spinach and sweet potatoes are just a few potassium-rich fruits and veggies. Get calcium from leafy greens like kale, Swiss chard and arugula.

Salty (Healthy) Foods

Canned tuna, canned salmon, soup, beans, pickles, olives and whole-grain bread are higher-sodium foods that are actually good for you. Since most of these foods are seasoned with table salt (a.k.a. sodium-chloride) you’ll find both electrolytes.

Dairy

Milk, cheese and yogurt are packed with bone-building calcium. Folks that have trouble digesting dairy or who follow a vegan diet can get plenty of calcium from a combination of leafy green veggies and calcium fortified foods like juices, tofu, soy milk and cereals.



"How to Make a Homemade Electrolyte Drink (http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/how-to-make-a-homemade-electrolyte-drink.html#b)"

Most people think of a sweaty athlete drinking a colored sports drink when they hear the word electrolyte. On the contrary, there are many ways to get fresh natural electrolyte replenishment from foods such as oranges, coconuts and honey, plus, save a few dollars by preparing your own sports drink that your body will embrace.

Water

Water is the main ingredient as it will act as the primary carrier of the electrolytes. It must be as clean as possible to work optimally. If you do not have the luxury of a home bottled water dispenser, simply boil water in a tea kettle. Incidentally, distilled water--the captured vapor from boiling water--is the best. It is very close to pure water, having almost all trace elements such as minerals, pollutants and other contaminants, removed. If you want distilled water, it's best to purchase it because collecting the vapor is difficult to do at home. Sometimes you can ask your bottled water carrier if they offer distilled water instead of spring. Tap water should be your last resort.

Salt

Electrolytes are basically salts. Salts keep your body's electrically conductive to maintain cell voltage for receiving or passing along information. Regular table salt works fine as long as it contains sodium chloride, which almost all salts are made of. Some also have potassium iodide, which is also excellent for your cocktail. If you can locate fine grain salt, it dissolves much faster. Using a mortar and pestle on regular salt work just as well.

Citrus

Oranges, grapefruits, tangerine, lemons and limes--try to always have these on hand as they are the best ingredients for electrolyte replenishment. Oranges are a particularly good choice. This is why you may have seen many athletes gorging themselves on juicy slices. Citrus fruits are great, even alone, for electrolytes. However, adding some other ingredients can enhance the effect. 

Foods

In addition to making your own electrolyte drink there are many foods that will help with replenishment as well. These include: avocados, broccoli, yogurt, tofu and apricots.

Recipes [found here (http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/how-to-make-a-homemade-electrolyte-drink.html#b)]

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Sole ( in water dissolved Himalaya sea salt, contains 84 minerals in its pure form). Just using the salt ( Himalaya) in/on your food has the same effect, and is easily absorbed, just sucking on a piece of that sea salt works too ( you know, like a cow or horse licking a salt stone or chewing on a fence to get the minerals absorbed by the previous tree now turned into a fence).

[Bubu]

sea water is the most complete source. add 3 parts distilled to 1 part sea water and you get same proportion as human blood minerals and electrolytes.

http://oceanplasma.org/documents/substitute.html

[Arpheus]

Good luck finding sea water that is safe for dirnking these days heh,thanks i will stick with coconut water.

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Good luck finding sea water that is safe for dirnking these days heh,thanks i will stick with coconut water.

The Himalaya salts are clean, or at least as clean as it comes, the deposits in the mountains are millions of years pre pollution old.

I get 2 coconuts for the price of 1 kg Himalaya salt, that's a years use at least and it fits in my hand, I have no room nor money for a coconut plantation in my house.

[Bubu]

Good luck finding sea water that is safe for dirnking these days heh,thanks i will stick with coconut water.

The volume of sea water is approx. 1,37 billion cubic kilometer. I don't think all those chemtrails and pollution can make a dent on this hugeness. I suggest that all these talks about polluted sea water is aimed to keep us away from the most important source of free minerals.

So this is why in our country and other they banned use of natural sea salt by requiring all salt manufacturer to add iodine poison to salt. Now they won't be doing this if they are convinced that the ocean is already poisoned.

Thanks for your suggestion but it means that we have to stop eating fish and other sea products because the sea is terribly polluted.

[araucaria]

Good luck finding sea water that is safe for dirnking these days heh,thanks i will stick with coconut water.

You could always pick up an iceberg, it'd be nice and wet by the time you got it home :)

[Anchor]

Irreverent Fun Time.... Drink Brawndo!!! It's got electrolytes!

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(from the awesome movie Idiocracy)

And the Electrolyte mix as a bonus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1zJHX-ru4E)

[toad]

Avacados, lots of fruit juices, potatos, etc..

[Carmody]

Electrolyte quality and stability is a fundamental for the human body to be able to operate in it's chemical fashion that it does.

'Chemical interactions' take place, for the most part... in liquid, which is ultimately aether effects. Which is dimensional connection. 'Chemical', as an expression and idea, arises from alchemy, it's origins.

The correct level of proper foods and intake is what allows us to be able to function and also, importantly, defines our level of dimensional capacities and connection...- aether.

eat bad, live bad --little to no dimensional connection. It is that simple.