Competitive athletes can experience severe mental and physical issues if they sweat heavily or are in hot environments without sufficient electrolyte intake, including sodium. — Whalespan
Competitive athletes can experience severe mental and physical issues if they sweat heavily or are in hot environments without sufficient electrolyte intake, including sodium.
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“there are examples of people having severe mental issues and physical issues post exercise when that exercise involved a ton of sweating or hot environments or insufficient ingestion of fluids and electrolytes because included in that electrolyte formula, of course, is sodium.”