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Folks here, as well as the medicos, have advised to use a a beverage fortified with electrolytes rather than plain water or diet sodas. However, a 20 oz. bottle of Gatorade contains 5% of the daily value. You could instead drink only 8 oz. of skim milk and get that same 5%. So that's 12 less ounces of fluid for the same benefit. Furthermore, the diet sodas everyone condemns contain variously 1% of 2% per 12 ozs. Difference between 2% and 5% seems negligible. Yes I know that Gatorade also contains K+ but low potassium is not a problem; in fact it's high normal.
My primary medico is not a specialist but she has ordered every blood and urine test she knows. Pituitary, kidneys, and liver OK; no burns, vomiting, diarrhea, or excessive sweating; no evidence of CHF; beer intake does not rise to the level of potomania. One drug, an ACE inhibitor known to cause low Na+ in some folks, was withdrawn and Na+ improved but the improvement was only temporary.
Perhaps the dehydration effect of the alcohol is to blame as some here have suggested, Maybe when you're as old as dirt, like yours truly, even 16 drinks a week can dehydrate you into hyponatremia. If I have to cut back further, it'll be tee-total. One to two drinks per session just ain't gonna cut it.
Eat a healthy balanced diet and you get your electrolytes. You can even add a multi vitamin to help you.
A healthy, balanced diet means different things to different people. Mine is healthy IMO, but not balanced. No red meat or even poultry for the past 25 years, for one thing. Loads of fruit and vegs and whole grains for another thing. Extremely low fat for yet another, e.g., all the dairy intake is non-fat. Most of the protein derived from egg whites, lean fish, and the brown rice/kidney beans combination. No cakes, candies, or pies.
So it's not the typical Western diet and is unbalanced. Modeled after the Nathan Pritikin diet but not as radical as his .... and of course there's the alcohol which he eschewed.
You can talk all the theory you want to, but the simple truth is it has been proven that drinking any electrolyte rich drink helps diffuse the effects of hangover, which are primarily caused by the dehydrating effects of alcohol.
You can talk all the theory you want to, but the simple truth is it has been proven that drinking any electrolyte rich drink helps diffuse the effects of hangover, which are primarily caused by the dehydrating effects of alcohol.
So, 20 ozs. of Gatorade yielding 5% of the daily value of sodium is rich in electrolytes while 8 ozs. of skim milk yielding the same 5% is not electrolyte rich.
So, 20 ozs. of Gatorade yielding 5% of the daily value of sodium is rich in electrolytes while 8 ozs. of skim milk yielding the same 5% is not electrolyte rich.
I said ANY electrolyte rich drink.
Personally I find it much easier to keep Gatorade on hand for emergency application at random moments than skim milk, which I have absolutely no use for whatsoever.
>>One to two drinks per session just ain't gonna cut it.
>Why not? I don't understand.
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Although not intending to "feel no pain," I do expect to have a little bit of a "glow." 1-2 ain't worth it. Rather go tee-total, curl up with a book, zonk-out with a refreshing sleep, and wake up age 16 again.
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