Andrew Huberman· PhD
for many uh people who are already sort of healthc conscious who are training they're largely consuming or I should say they're consuming largely nonprocessed or minimally processed C foods and especially for folks who are not ingesting many carbohydrates and are consuming caffeine totally you know a lot of people don't know that carbohydrates hold water um and that makes it sound bad it's not necessarily that you know you're going to get subcutaneous swelling of your body it's Rec it's it's bringing water into your system and it holds water so when you drop carbohydrate starches in particular you urinate a lot more and when you drink caffeine you also urinate a lot more as as you pointed out earlier so you start combining a few things like slightly lower carbohydrate or low carbohydrate eating really quote unquote clean you're not getting a lot of salt in your food and drinking caffeine and then exercising and then pretty soon those numbers that come along with um you know a gram of sodium in your electrolyte drink are not all that outrageous