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Originally Posted by Dakota
If you only drink water, you need some other strategy to keep your sodium and other mineral levels up. Eat something, or drink actual sports drinks (as opposed to what marketing wants you to believe are sports drinks). Drinking only water in a high fluid loss activity will lead to water intoxication (over-hydration).
Not drinking enough and getting overheated can lead to heat stroke.
Only drinking water to replace high fluid loss can lead to water intoxication (loss of sodium, etc.)
Some of the symptoms are the same.
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I think we may be on different pages.
I believe we were talking about hydration which is basically pre-gameday. You are on gameday. Obviously, you need to handle the body's chemical balance. Many people used salted sunflower seeds for the sodium. That beats the old salt tablets, but they will still do the job.
The only thing you need to watch with the sunflower or any other salted seeds is wear on your teeth. If you use your teeth to split the shell, the salt coating can wear on the enamel of your teeth. Granted, this is for those who do this long-term.
Back to point. I don't know how much you can "build up" on the sodium and electrolytes like you can fluids.