Nutrition for Running
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Hydration<br />
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When you sweat your body loses water. Dissolved in this water are<br />
electrolytes like sodium, potassium and chloride. These minerals<br />
play a crucial role when it comes to muscle contraction and fluid<br />
balance. But as an Endurance Athlete the main one is SODIUM.<br />
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Sodium is crucial in helping the body to absorb the fluids you drink<br />
and to maintain hydration. Your rate of sodium loss in sweat is<br />
determined by genetics and is unpredictable the losses in a normal<br />
population can vary eight fold from 230 to 1,700mg/l meaning that<br />
some individuals could loose eight times as much sodium in an hour<br />
than others. Losses of potassium and other electrolytes tend to be<br />
more predictable and less critical.
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