Electrolytes are the blood minerals that make up the pH balance of the blood and the electrical potential of the body. Without electrolytes, the body is like a car without a battery – it just cannot get started.
Electrolytes for the most part are NOT stored, apart from salt and calcium, and you don’t want to use your stores of bone for blood calcium as that can lead to osteoperosis and kidney stones. So electrolytes MUST come from the diet. They are shed through sweat and urine and used in digestion and elimination.
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Bouts of fatigue and brain fog can often be attributed to a lack of electrolytes, as can muscle spasms, light headedness and depression.
Salt, calcium, potassium and magnesium are the electrolytes we need the most. Salt is stored and managed by the liver, so we don’t need a lot, we just need enough. Organic salts from zucchini and celery are best, seafood next best, Celtic Sea salt is great, kosher salt is fine. Chromium and Sulfur are also electrolytes. A lack of chromium will lead to intense hypoglycemia.
A combination of Emergen-C, Cal-Mag Fizz and the Cleansing Drink or Rehyrdating Drink is a good way to get electrolytes. I have yet to find a supplement that has nothing but all of the electrolytes in proper proportions.
If you can handle the taste, you can make up an oral rehydration solution:
One quart of water
2 tablespoon of table sugar
1 tablespoon of grade B maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon of Epsom salts or take magnesium supplement
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
sip slowly throughout the day