Do you add salt to your food

[PizzaDad]

So let me get this straight. It's hot as balls outside. I am drinking Gatorade to try to replenish lost electrolytes (couldn't find any brawndo). And I might actually be making things worse by diluting the electrolytes in my body?
BTW. I just checked the temp in Witchita Falls. Fuck all that !

[Mark Rippetoe]

It's 104 right now. Standard July day.

[Tim Reese]

It's a dry heat

[Mark Rippetoe]

Right.

[Douga]

It's a dry heat

So is an oven.

[Kiril]

You prefer it humid? Welcome to Tel Aviv. Warm and shitty.

[Matt-Panz]

That said, you raise a good point about rehydration as most fluid replacement solutions are hypotonic and would actually further contribute to deficit. Gatorade comes to mind here, as it's sodium content is well below what is needed to replenish.

Where can I read more about how to properly rehydrate?

I am googling things and a bunch of silly bullshit is coming up so far. Pretty much every website says "Drink a sports drink if you are active".

Hi, I wonder what your (or others) current recommendation for fluid replacement for rehydration would be? In your nutrition forum you mention chicken noodle soup, or a bouillon cube in gatorade?

But, is there some better solution?

Thanks.

Yeah Jordan actually if you made a nutritional book that could help us simpletons live our life with decent nutrition that'd be great.

[Itchysoles]

Put too much salt in my 60oz of smoothie this morning; not sure if this contributed to the full voiding of my bowels that I experienced. Titrate this prescription carefully.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Where can I read more about how to properly rehydrate?

Is there any evidence that your normal thirst response in inadequate for this purpose? How about you just drink water until you're no longer thirsty? Or do you just have the psychological need to complicate the uncomplicated?

[MBasic]

Quote Originally Posted by Jordan Feigenbaum
That said, you raise a good point about rehydration as most fluid replacement solutions are hypotonic and would actually further contribute to deficit. Gatorade comes to mind here, as it's sodium content is well below what is needed to replenish.

Where can I read more about how to properly rehydrate?

Is there any evidence that your normal thirst response in inadequate for this purpose? How about you just drink water until you're no longer thirsty? Or do you just have the psychological need to complicate the uncomplicated?

I think what he is asking, just being "thirsty" and drinking a bunch of straight water or sub-optimal sports drinks doesn't really replace salt/electrolytes.
And just further dilutes them in your body . . .

. . . so what should we be doing? Do we just dump a bunch of salt into our water? or just the salt the fuck out of everything we eat?

directed at Jordan

context is a situation where one is sweating a whole shit ton.