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Hydrating the Body: Electrolyte Replenishment, Combating Cramps, & Sweat Testing ft. Andy Blow || #84
Hydration is more than just drinking "enough" water. There's room to optimize according to your own biology, needs, and goals.
Andy Blow, a triathlete and sports scientist, suffered from serious cramps throughout his athletic career. There are many reasons why people cramp, and a key mechanism is through dehydration and poor electrolyte replenishment. All athletes sweat, yet there's a huge variance in sweat and sodium losses, which can lead to sub-optimal performance and a terrible feeling we've all experienced: Cramps. To combat this, Andy founded Precision Hydration to help endurance athletes and a number of teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB meet their personalized hydration and electrolyte needs.
In this discussion, you'll discover:
- The misconceptions of hydration and electrolytes, and how there is a huge variance in how much sodium each individual loses when sweating
- How and why endurance athletes tend to lean more into the quantified-self philosophy than other types of athletes
- The physiology behind cramping
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Hydration is more than just drinking "enough" water. There's room to optimize according to your own biology, needs, and goals.
Andy Blow, a triathlete and sports scientist, suffered from serious cramps throughout his athletic career. There are many reasons why people cramp, and a key mechanism is through dehydration and poor electrolyte replenishment. All athletes sweat, yet there's a huge variance in sweat and sodium losses, which can lead to sub-optimal performance and a terrible feeling we've all experienced: Cramps. To combat this, Andy founded Precision Hydration to help endurance athletes and a number of teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB meet their personalized hydration and electrolyte needs.
In this discussion, you'll discover:
- The misconceptions of hydration and electrolytes, and how there is a huge variance in how much sodium each individual loses when sweating
- How and why endurance athletes tend to lean more into the quantified-self philosophy than other types of athletes
- The physiology behind cramping
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Visit our website to learn more: https://go.hvmn.com/podcast-video
Take a short survey that will help us improve the podcast and be entered in a HVMN Ketone giveaway: https://go.hvmn.com/podcastsurvey
We also want to hear from our listeners/viewers! Contact [email protected] with any feedback, questions, and guest suggestions! Write a review for us on iTunes, let us know via email, and we'll send you a free Sprint Mini (https://go.hvmn.com/sprint_mini_podcast).