essential electrolytes

Drinking water is certainly essential. Water alone, however, will not hydrate your body. Electrolytes—water with dissolved salts and minerals—are critical to keep the body hydrated.

It is often said that the human body is about 80% water. However, there is no plain water in the body. Salts and minerals are dissolved in all the water in the body. Dissolved salts and minerals turn water into an electrolyte solution. ALL fluids in the body are electrolytes. Therefore, it is more accurate to say the body is about 80% electrolytes. Therefore, drinking water AND electrolytes will hydrate your body.

Your body is constantly losing electrolytes through sweat, urine, the bowels and simply breathing. Electrolyte loss is further increased from caffeine, alcohol, carbonated beverages, smoking, athletic training/performance, artificial indoor heat as well as air conditioning, stress, and poor dietary choices. Unless you continually and actively hydrate, you are dehydrated. While drinking water is important, water will not replenish the dissolved salts and minerals—the electrolyte loss. Although you ingest electrolytes in foods the replacement is hit or miss—you are not assured the proper balance. Research shows that the best way to replace lost electrolytes, is by adequate amounts of the right electrolyte formula.

Dehydration and rehydration happen at the cellular level. Think of each cell in your body as a body in and of itself– needing a steady delivery of nutrients and a reliable pick up of wastes. As you have already learned, all fluids in your body are not plain water. Your fluids are electrolyte solutions, water with dissolved salts and minerals. The fluid inside each cell body is an electrolyte solution. There is yet another electrolyte solution outside each cell. These two different electrolyte solutions move water. Water moves nutrients into the cell and water moves wastes out of the cell. The catch is—when your body’s electrolytes are depleted, the movement of water is sluggish. No matter how much water you drink, the movement of water is still sluggish. The cells—and therefore YOU—are dehydrated.

Replenishing the electrolyte solutions inside and outside your cells creates the balance necessary for water to move in and out of the cells. Water moving in and out of the cells not only delivers nutrients and removes wastes… moving water creates energy!

There are many different and well-known electrolyte drinks on the market. Any amount of any salt dissolved in water can be marketed as an electrolyte supplement. Electrolyte drinks differ in their particular concentrations of sodium, potassium, chloride, phosphate, calcium and magnesium. The effects in the body of each electrolyte drink depend on the particular concentrations of these elements. Some replenish some of your electrolyte losses. Other products compensate for dietary deficiencies due to processing of foods and rapidly declining soil minerals. None of these products however, correct the balance of salts and minerals in the electrolyte solutions inside and outside your body’s cells.

Health Equations Electrolyte Solutions are designed to replenish electrolyte loss, compensate for dietary electrolyte deficiencies—AND restore balance to the body’s electrolyte solutions. By simultaneously improving the electrolytes in both solutions, your cells become both hydrated and recharged. Recharged cells generate energy. Health Health equations Lyte Solutions are based on 30 years of clinical research and over 18,000 blood test evaluations conducted by Lynne August, a Medical Doctor who collaborates with a world-class electrolyte chemist.

Research has shown that the body knows what it needs when it’s in balance. When your body chemistry is in balance, you can listen to your food desires, as well as water and salt intake (see “Water & Salt” article www.healthequations.com). When your body chemistry is in balance, food desires and thirst are your body’s way of asking for what it needs. The key word is WHEN your body is in balance. If your body is not in balance, desires are no longer reliable; cravings replace desires. Cravings are indiscriminate attempts to regain balance. Electrolytes can begin to restore balance at the cellular level and help create healthier food and water choices.
To achieve and maintain your optimum health, current research has found that hydrating your body with water and Health Equations Electrolyte Solutions actually:

• Increases metabolism
• Increases energy
• Balances food choices
• Promotes satiety
• Hydrates skin
• Improves mental function
• Reduces stress

When these solutions are balanced, water moves in and out of the billions of cells, hydrating your body.

Unless you continually and actively hydrate, you are dehydrated. So while drinking water is important, water will not replenish the dissolved salts and minerals—the electrolyte loss. You ingest electrolytes in foods, however the placement is hit or miss—you are not assured the proper balance. You must drink water and an electrolyte formula.

Ironically, when cells are particularly dehydrated, water becomes trapped outside the cells. This is known as water retention, or edema. When your cells are hydrated, water moves freely in and out of the cells. When water is trapped, the movement of nutrients to the cell and the removal of wastes is very sluggish. Drinking Health Equations Electrolyte Solution reestablishes the movement the water delivering nutrients to the cell, and removing wastes.

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