salt

Little_mouse 128 points a year ago

If you drink something that is about the same ionic concentration as your blood, you can absorb a lot of it safely.

If you drink something much much saltier than your blood it will pull water out of your blood cells.

If you drink something with very few ions it will hydrate your blood cells, but drinking too much can burst your blood cells as they try to absorb to much.

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WhyIHateTheInternet 49 points a year ago

Damn lucky I've been somehow drinking exactly the right amount of stuff so that I haven't died yet

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FoxyFerengi 34 points a year ago

Just don't enter any water drinking contests and you'll be fine!

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panda_abyss 14 points a year ago

What about blood drinking contests, since that will match your daily contents?

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krooklochurm 11 points a year ago

Found the vampire.

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WhyIHateTheInternet 3 points a year ago

I remember that. Same city my office is in.

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RobertoOberto 31 points a year ago

That's why I only drink units of whole blood. On average, the under-hydrated and over-hydrated people that contributed to that unit cancel each other out, so I know I'm always working towards optimal cell hydration. Never to much or too little.

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ErmahgherdDavid 14 points a year ago

I only drink brawndo. It's got what plants crave

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Bonsoir 1 point a year ago

https://lemmy.ca/post/47329671

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Stitch0815 7 points a year ago

Last point is definitely a myth. Yes you can die if you drink an insane amount of water, but a healthy person with a healthy diet can live purely on distilled water.

As far as I am aware it's also still a topic of debate if a healthy person could drink seawater. Not forever, but quite a while. (Have not looked into that for a while tho)

Tldr: our bodies are insanly good at keeping us alive

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greedytacothief 3 points a year ago

I think I heard that cats can survive on seawater(not well, but better than dead). For some reason they just have baller kidneys.

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NutinButNet 52 points a year ago

But it’s got what the plants crave

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mushroommunk 22 points a year ago

Gatorade doesn't, that's Brawndo.

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saltnotsugar 16 points a year ago

It’s got electrolytes.

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pelespirit 47 points a year ago

Isn't gatorade a combo of salt, sugar, water and potassium? So basically, a banana with some salt on it and lots of water.

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blarghly 8 points a year ago

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fahfahfahfah 6 points a year ago

There’s no way Gatorade has more potassium than a banana, it has like 2% your DV or something miniscule like that.

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Frozengyro 3 points a year ago

Yea, a banana has roughly 5.5x the amount of potassium

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Whostosay 9 points a year ago

I highly doubt a banana has what plants crave

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pelespirit 2 points a year ago

You don't think someone could make their own?

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blarghly 1 point a year ago

That's defintiely something someone could do. I've done it myself. It's just not the same as a banana.

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pelespirit 2 points a year ago

What was your recipe? That's my point. The original gatorade was I think oj, salt and sugar, yeah?

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village604 3 points a year ago

Technically potassium is a salt too.

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DeltaWingDragon 2 points a year ago

Once I heard neurons described as "salty bananas" because of their concentrations of K+, Na+, and Cl- ions.

Therefore, Gatorade is made of neurons.

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Meron35 23 points a year ago

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someguy3 16 points a year ago

Apparently the old Gatorade (before commercialization) was so salty it was gross.

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FauxPseudo 16 points a year ago

Powerade has about 50% more electrolytes AKA salts than Gatorade does.

But that's also part of the trick. It's not just sodium chloride. The potassium is monopotassium phosphate, a salt. Sea water is 3.5% salt and almost all of it is sodium chloride. Gatorade is only about .25% salt. Sea water has 14x the amount of salt as Gatorade

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otacon239 9 points a year ago

Currently, one of the slogans on the bottle is “Hydrates better than water”. Do they know what ‘hydrates’ means?

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DagwoodIII 26 points a year ago

When they start an IV line, they use 'normal saline' [0.9% NaCl] and not pure water.

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orangeyouglad 10 points a year ago

because osmotic pressure destroying your cells is bad for you

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DragonTypeWyvern 6 points a year ago

Fun Fact: 0.9% will cause red cell lysis as well. It's not actually isotonic, and it's probably a hidden cause of unnecessary deaths and definitely results in inferior transfusion product quality at minimum.

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DagwoodIII 1 point a year ago

RFK Jr. has entered the chat

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orangeyouglad 1 point a year ago

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caseyweederman 18 points a year ago

Salt helps you retain water long enough to absorb it

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