 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the video. A couple times a week, we're going to be featuring my podcast 50% Facts, some snippets and highlights. Each episode, we dive into one topic, one question, and in the first half of the podcast, me and Jim McD analyze and try to talk about and ask questions on the question. Then in the second half of the podcast, we bring in the world's leading expert to give you everything you want to know on such topics. So I hope you guys enjoy. If you want to find the full episodes, there is a 50% Facts podcast YouTube channel, and it's available on all platforms, iTunes, Spotify, et cetera, et cetera. Check it out, give this thing a thumbs up, tell your friends, and I hope you enjoy. Our other question was this. We keep seeing recommendations about using additional salt, additional sodium for performance. Historically, we've been told to try to reduce sodium, and then you see people saying, oh, use Himalayan sea salt in your water or whatever, X number of times a day for increased performance. What's your opinion on that? Yeah. So that is actually a common question. If I'm recommending a certain type of food, or sometimes I actually recommend microwavable, meal replacement type of lean cuisine type of things, and this is for convenience, and people are like, but what about the sodium? High sodium diets tend to be related when they look at these epidemiological related to cardiovascular disease. That probably has to do with blood pressure. But when it comes down to individuals, if you don't have high blood pressure, you really have to worry about the sodium, and especially if you're active. So when you're really active, you're sweating, you're losing some electrolytes that way, and having that adequate sodium can be beneficial. I'm not aware of any studies that show adding additional salt to a standard kind of diet is beneficial unless you're just, unless you're not getting enough in your actual diet. So I'm not sure if adding Himalayan salt is beneficial. In fact, some people go too far and use sea salt and some of the Himalayan salt, and don't get enough iodine in their diet. Iodine salt came about because people were not getting enough iodine in their diet, and they got, began getting voiders. That was the leading cause of hypothyroidism at one point. And now they still have that issue in another, like third world in other countries, but we're starting to see some case studies pop up. In fact, I've had a few patients where all they were using a sea salt, and they had hypothyroidism, not because they had autoimmune disease, like what I have, I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is the leading cause of hypothyroidism in the United States. But now we're starting to see some people get hypothyroidism from an iodine deficiency, and it's because we're not using iodine salt. So anyway, this is kind of a side point. So the reality is that probably too low of sodium is an issue. We're starting to see probably a sweet spot, and the leading experts go back and forth, and you see these new studies based on, you know, they do these urinary studies looking at potassium and sodium, and showing that, hey, it looks like the people that live the longest aren't eating the least amount of salt or sodium. And there's probably something to that when you decrease your salt or sodium so much, you do see some possible adverse effects. And then obviously when you increase it past a certain threshold, there can be some adverse effects as well, especially for those who are sensitive and have increased blood pressure levels to it. So on a population basis, it's hard to give a certain recommendation because it's like, yeah, everybody should be eating less salt, and then it confuses people because, you know, instead of focusing on public calories, which they should be, they're now thinking about sodium, and the individuals who don't have high blood pressure probably don't need to worry about it if they're eating another life, healthful diet, including a lot of potassium and other high nutrient types of foods, which can counteract that elevated sodium intake. So I'm more of, look at it, you know, I like the epidemiological studies and the public health thing, but I also look at it from an individual standpoint. If somebody's relatively lean and reactive, they can handle a lot more sodium and not have adverse effects. Go ahead. Sorry about that. What about like Gatorade and some of these drinks out there that, you know, their whole commercials about sodium and et cetera, et cetera? You mentioned electrolytes earlier. I think potassium, a couple others obviously are lost when we sweat or exercise. Is it that necessary that we replenish them 10 seconds after we lose them? Or like you kind of said, for the normal person just to get them in your diet throughout the day plus some water might be enough. Yeah. So unless you're doing intense exercise, you know, 30 to 60 minutes losing multiple pounds from sweat, you know, if you're just a recreational weightlifter, you're not going to need Gatorade. I mean, this is where we see issues with younger kids. All they're doing is drinking Gatorade because they thought, oh, the sports drink, it's good for me. Seeing an increase in obesity, obviously, as you know. And I have to then go like, look, just drink water. For most of my patients, just drink water. It's these triathletes and runners and not just, you know, a few mile run. It's more people training for marathons and really intense exercises. And also, you know, you can, there can be some benefit if you're thinner and you're trying to gain weight, obviously, and you're trying to replenish your glycogen and you're working out more than one to day, too, because it's not just the electrolyte. It can also be the glucose and fructose as well that can help with that. But in general, most people probably don't need to. Yeah, I think we tell, Mike and I both tell power lifters all the time, you don't need to do that stuff because you're not really glycogen depleting and you're not really sweating enough to matter. Some of them are sweaty because they're fat, but that's a totally different story. It's really not, it's not worth the calories to drink the Gatorade. No, no, absolutely not. Tastes good. I mean, some people like Propel is one of the calorie free one that I generally recommend. If you need something kind of sweeter than, you know, maybe go towards that, but otherwise just drink water. We're going to do enough electrolytes in your food for most people. And like you said, maybe a little Chipotle here and there or a little microwave meal is not going to end your life if you're healthy and exercising. Exactly. Awesome. Well, I think that covers the both topics to the extent that we need to do on this show. Where can people find you? Great. So, find me on Instagram, instagram.com slash drnodolsky, D-R-N-A-D-O-L-S-K-Y. And then also, I'm part of the Renaissance periodization crew. So, check us out at renaissanceperiodization.com. That's a good crew, man. I hung out with Mike a bunch in L.A. a bunch of times. Oh, good. Yeah, he's a great guy. Him and Nick are my faves. So, yeah, check us out there. Awesome. Thanks so much, man. Thank you very much. You got it. Bye. Have a great one. Ladies and gentlemen, hopefully you enjoyed the podcast. If you do, please share it with your friends. It helps us grow a lot. We really appreciate it. Give us a rating and review. 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