Waterlogged?

[Dart]

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Last year, a female runner in the Boston marathon dropped dead in mid-race.

The cause? Not a coronary. Not heatstroke. Not a beating from Tonya Harding's kinfolk (hey - you never know nowadays, right?). Rather, she died of hyponatremic encephalopathy - extreme water intoxication. This was an extreme case of what is popularly known as "heat exhaustion."

What that means is that during the course of the race, she drank so much liquid (in this case, a popular "sports drink") that the amount of salt in her blood was diluted away to dangerous levels, causing her brain to swell up, which killed her.

What's my point in telling you this? That drowning isn't the only way that too much water can kill you. Now, I'm not under the impression that a number of members at Meso are runners - or that many of us even exercise to the point where this could conceivably happen to us. But this incident does serve to expose some of the mainstream's 1 or 2 gallons a day "water madness" for what it is... possibly dangerous.

Just food for thought!

Cheers,
D

[that]

what do u consider low sodium? per day?

[Pablo34]

Frosty,

Do you recommend lightly salting our food then? I was always of the notion that salt is "bad", that any sodium ingested should be just from whole foods. I myself drink 1+ gallons of water a day.

[ryanmo123]

Originally Posted by Frosty

Absolutely salt your food, but it should be real sea salt. Real sea salt has other minerals besides just sodium, and it is very good for you.

Really?? I never knew that . . .what does the salt do for you?

[Meat Train]

Sea water is the most comparble substance on earth to human blood composition-wise. We are a part of our environment-- Dust to Dust.

[G-Head]

In the past 20 or so years of training for, and people for shows I see so many competitors and amateur lifters screw this topic up. If you are doing no activity keep your salt low (last 5-7 days before a show) otherwise salt your food. I've had several competitors make the same mistake and actually dehydrate before it was necessary (and get fucking yelled at by me)

As far as water consumption my guys are at 1 1/2 -2 gallons per day, and women 1 -1 1/2 per day. All lightly salting their food.

This is of course with cardio 5-6 times per week and 5 workouts per week.

[Grizzly]

Hmmmm, maybe that's why my head is so big; it's because my brain is swollen. Without exageration or bullshit or any of the crap likely to come out of someone's mouth, I'm in the 4-6 gallon/day range. I drink water all day long, every day. And I don't mean, little glasses of water. I don't use anything less than a 36oz glass. Good thing I'm not afraid of salt, I guess.

[KOMT]

lol, grizzly always lays the smackdown where appropriate