now we're going to talk about five electrolytes there are others like phosphorus and bicarbonates
those tend to buffer the ph if things are too acid or to alkaline but i'm going to focus on these
five right here let's start with sodium sodium is a mineral that helps hydrate things because it's
water is attracted to it and of course if you have too much sodium you're going to retain
fluid but if you don't have enough sodium you're not going to hydrate the cells
as well also sodium is involved in oxygen transport so if you're getting swelling in
the red blood cells for example you're not going to be able to carry oxygen to the body and you're
going to actually kind of run out of air so you could have all sorts of problems with endurance
for example if you're low in sodium let's say you uh you do this huge workout and you're sweating
and you lose your sodium you're going to be very very tired and you're not going to be able to like
walk up the stairs because you're going to run out of oxygen sodium also works with chloride
as in salt for various things but sodium also works with other minerals like potassium there's
a pump called the sodium potassium pump and the purpose of that pump is to generate electrical
potential and you can look at that as like a battery it's basically these two are necessary
in making sure that there's enough electrical charge inside that cell because your cells are
mini batteries they have voltage and the reason why your body is designed like that is to power
the nerve and muscle interaction the contraction of the muscle and the firing of the nerves okay so
if you don't have enough sodium or potassium that pump can't work and you're not going to be able to
activate the nerve impulses or the muscles to work so there's a lot of problems that can happen with
potassium deficiency and sodium deficiency and you're going to feel tired and weak on both of
these right here now when we get to magnesium magnesium controls the absorption of sodium
and potassium so this is a very important mineral as well the most of the population is deficient in
magnesium magnesium is at the core of chlorophyll which is in all the leafy greens an average person
consumes probably a cup and a half of vegetable per day and they're usually deficient in magnesium
magnesium also is associated with oxygen like sodium but it's mainly about relaxation of
the muscle whereas calcium is about the muscle contraction so these work together to contract
and relax the muscle so magnesium is there to also prevent cramping so when you're deficient
in magnesium you get muscle cramps but if you're deficient in calcium you can also get
muscle cramps magnesium is real necessary in your workouts especially if you do long workouts
or intense workouts let's say you're doing a bench press where you're doing some type of
intense pushing motion or something that you have to have some sustained contraction then you
need a lot of magnesium and so if you find that you can't work out very long or very intensely
you may need magnesium or you may need calcium i notice when people are deficient in calcium
they lose their grip strength they just cannot lift as much weight but calcium
is also about neuromuscular excitability so it's the nerve stimulus of the muscle
just like potassium right if there is a calcium deficiency what can happen
is you can get too much of this and get tetany where you have this little twitching going on
either in the left eye your arm or throughout the body now this can also happen in the heart too
so heart palpitations really are a problem with electrolytes when you're low on calcium you get a
muscle cramp and you'll also have skeletal muscle weakness and then chloride works with sodium
and it has everything to do with hydration now there's a lot of other functions of these minerals
that relate to other things that aren't associated with the electrolytes so i just wanted to focus in
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