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Canned some powdered gatorade to keep it dry longer
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Dunno about OP, but the advent of Long COVID comes with a 5x increase in new diagnoses of POTS. Lotta new passengers on the electrolyte train. On high symptom days, I have a junkie-like relationship with calcium antacids and salt shakers.
What's pots?
I appreciate you asking. Excellent explainer here.
I see, thanks, never heard of it.
How does Gatorade help with that?
Mostly the treatment required a fluid intake increase and salt intake increase. Put almost too simply, electrolytes are just fancy salts
Ty Carrot!
And to go back to complicating it just a little, those metal salts (particularly sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, plus iodine to make them all do their jobs) make your nervous system and endocrine system work. If the salts and fluids aren’t riding around the vascular system correctly, all sorts of automatic body processes start getting fucky. That’s dysautonomia, like in the name of that website.
Electrolytes can help you retain fluid within your vasculature, which helps with pots bc it increases your blood pressure until you pee it out
fuck yeah electrolyte gang