10-11-20, 08:12 AM | |
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Texas
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It is my understanding, from working with sports medicine docs in the main med tent for an annual half marathon, that you can drink as much as you want if you take in enough salt to balance it. When runners were brought into the tent in trouble with hyponatremia, they were given this nasty broth to drink which is loaded with enough salt to make even the greatest salt lover say "Ick!" Over the past 9 years, three have died from hyponatremia. I don't know if it was actually determined by fact, or assumed, that all three repeatedly refused the sports drink out on the run and only took in pure water. It was also stated that the runs on those particular days were cooler days so the sweat was less.
My cousin drank a lot of water while avoiding salt over several years. It finally killed her. The autopsy indicated that this is what caused the heart attack in an otherwise very fit woman who worked out and ate well. I never knew what she was doing but probably wouldn’t have thought a daily habit would finally take her since that inner- drowning thing is typically caused by a single event. The autopsy linked her water and lack of salt intake death with her age (58) but didn't mention anything about this being a chronic assault on her body for a lot of years. Maybe this is not your situation but I wanted to make sure you knew about this if you didn’t already. |
10-11-20, 08:33 AM | |
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Texas
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I just read a paper that included: The older we get over 40, the more likely we don’t pee effectively. The less salt and protein we consume while we are peeing less effectively the greater our chronic hyponatremia and the greater our health risk due to chronic hyponatremia. The conclusion was to make sure older people eat more salt and protein but it said nothing about drinking less water. It said the protein makes us pee more, though it didn’t mention caffeine. The diuretics were discussed as medical intervention.
Your doc thus is not a complete nut job on recommending more protein, she is just “bananas” on her food suggestion. |
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