• Elise@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ll look for it. Maybe I’ll just eat some salty food like chilli or ramen.

    One time it was crazy hot and I biked around true whole day in the sun. Eventually I started getting dizzy and like I would faint. I ate pure salt from a store and felt better. Well who knows maybe it was the airco or placebo. But who knows maybe I also stopped eating junk that week.

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      1 year ago

      When you exert yourself you sweat more which means you lose more electrolytes. You absolutely were low on the electrolytes.

      Electrolytes do a lot of things, but the body uses them to move water around. So sweat uses electrolytes. That’s why sweat taste salty.

      It could have been a combination of moderate heat stroke, and low electrolytes. The salt definitely helped you

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        1 year ago

        Ah is that the osmosis thing where the imbalance in charge causes liquids to diffuse across the membranes? I also remember that it’s important for action potential in neurons.

        Thanks a lot. I’ll make a plan for tackling it.