– If electrolytes are salt, and salt makes you dehydrated, how do electrolytes help you retain water?

Question

– If electrolytes are salt, and salt makes you dehydrated, how do electrolytes help you retain water?

In: 18

Answer 1

It’s about maintaining a balance of salts on the inside and outside of your cell walls.

You tip the scales too far or one side or the other and either your cell walls get crushed inwards or you explode outwards.