If you drink fresh water, you get more hydrated.
If you drink the ocean, you get more dehydrated.
What’s the “break even” salinity concentration point?
How salty does water have to be before it starts dehydrating you?
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If you drink fresh water, you get more hydrated.
If you drink the ocean, you get more dehydrated.
What’s the “break even” salinity concentration point?
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I think you could probably get away with a little salt in the water. But my estimate and I am no professional would be a quarter of the electrolytes in your average sports drink, in pure salt (in the same amount of water). Don’t ask me why those metrics but I think your average sports drink has figured out the average amount of electrolytes needed to refill your body after intensive sports. And because regular salt is inherently dehydrative a 4th would in your water would dehydrate you
The water should be fresh so that you do not become dehydrated.
.9% is isotonic. Anything more than 1% will be in solution more saline than the body normally maintains.