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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 do eat banana(s), and do not do most sport drinks. I must be very careful about sodium, even moreso than sugars. I do a few sunflower seeds during the game. I've been doing this for years and knock on wood have not had a problem in either direction. I've been hotter than Hades during/after a game, but I have a personal mini-mist machine that help take care of that.