– If electrolytes are salt, and salt makes you dehydrated, how do electrolytes help you retain water?
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Our bodies are naturally salty. We need salts for maintaining osmotic pressure as well as for proper electrical activity.
If we sweat a lot we need to replenish salts we lose. If we take in lots of water but no extra salt, we have an osmotic imbalance and we basically lose salt to try to make the not-salty water we just drank to be as salty as the rest of our body
Very salty food, or sea water, is much saltier than our normal amount of salt, so that draws water out of our cells as our systems try to maintain the correct balance of saltiness
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