Why does sodium-heavy liquids like pickle juice, chicken noodle soup, or saline hydrate you better than regular water when you’re dehydrated, but salt water dehydrates you?
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Many of us Multi-day fasters make our own DIY electrolyte drink. Sports drinks only have trace amounts to top up electrolytes lost through sweat.
My mix is 1L ice cold water with ice in an insulated flask to keep it cold.
1/2 tsp of Himilayan Pink salt for some sodium chloride and trace minerals.
1/2 tsp of food grade Epsom salts for magnesium.
1 tsp of ‘No-Salt’ salt substitute for Potassium Chloride.
1 tsp of Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) for the bulk of the Sodium requirement.
Baking soda for most of the sodium and the drink always being ice cold means this drink doesn’t taste salty. I hear it tastes a bit like Coconut water though I’ve never had that myself. To me it doesn’t taste like plain water but doesn’t taste of anything in particular either. I can drink this stuff all day
As the relative proportions of the electrolytes and the dilution is correct, this is effectively Saline drip and one can drink as much as one wants cause you’ll just piss out the electrolytes you don’t need. Get the proportions and dilutions wrong and then drink too much and you can end up dehydrating and losing even more of an electrolyte you might be low on in the bodies effort to get rid of the excess of the electrolyte you ended up taking too much of per unit volume of water.
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