Sports drinks with sodium make you hydrated, but we all know you can’t drink salty sea water because you’ll get dehydrated. Why?
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The body needs some salt to maintain the required balance within your cells, but too much salt will mean the body needs to shed water to get rid of it. Seawater is way too salty while sports drinks tend to aim at replacing salts lost through sweat, a much lesser amount.
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