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now we’re going to talk about five electrolytes  there are others like phosphorus and bicarbonates  

those tend to buffer the ph if things are too acid  or to alkaline but i’m going to focus on these  

five right here let’s start with sodium sodium is  a mineral that helps hydrate things because it’s  

water is attracted to it and of course if you  have too much sodium you’re going to retain  

fluid but if you don’t have enough sodium  you’re not going to hydrate the cells  

as well also sodium is involved in oxygen  transport so if you’re getting swelling in  

the red blood cells for example you’re not going  to be able to carry oxygen to the body and you’re  

going to actually kind of run out of air so you  could have all sorts of problems with endurance  

for example if you’re low in sodium let’s say you  uh you do this huge workout and you’re sweating  

and you lose your sodium you’re going to be very  very tired and you’re not going to be able to like  

walk up the stairs because you’re going to run  out of oxygen sodium also works with chloride  

as in salt for various things but sodium also  works with other minerals like potassium there’s  

a pump called the sodium potassium pump and the  purpose of that pump is to generate electrical  

potential and you can look at that as like a  battery it’s basically these two are necessary  

in making sure that there’s enough electrical  charge inside that cell because your cells are  

mini batteries they have voltage and the reason  why your body is designed like that is to power  

the nerve and muscle interaction the contraction  of the muscle and the firing of the nerves okay so  

if you don’t have enough sodium or potassium that  pump can’t work and you’re not going to be able to  

activate the nerve impulses or the muscles to work  so there’s a lot of problems that can happen with  

potassium deficiency and sodium deficiency and  you’re going to feel tired and weak on both of  

these right here now when we get to magnesium  magnesium controls the absorption of sodium  

and potassium so this is a very important mineral  as well the most of the population is deficient in  

magnesium magnesium is at the core of chlorophyll  which is in all the leafy greens an average person  

consumes probably a cup and a half of vegetable  per day and they’re usually deficient in magnesium  

magnesium also is associated with oxygen like  sodium but it’s mainly about relaxation of  

the muscle whereas calcium is about the muscle  contraction so these work together to contract  

and relax the muscle so magnesium is there to  also prevent cramping so when you’re deficient  

in magnesium you get muscle cramps but if  you’re deficient in calcium you can also get  

muscle cramps magnesium is real necessary in  your workouts especially if you do long workouts  

or intense workouts let’s say you’re doing a  bench press where you’re doing some type of  

intense pushing motion or something that you  have to have some sustained contraction then you  

need a lot of magnesium and so if you find that  you can’t work out very long or very intensely  

you may need magnesium or you may need calcium  i notice when people are deficient in calcium  

they lose their grip strength they just  cannot lift as much weight but calcium  

is also about neuromuscular excitability  so it’s the nerve stimulus of the muscle  

just like potassium right if there is  a calcium deficiency what can happen  

is you can get too much of this and get tetany  where you have this little twitching going on  

either in the left eye your arm or throughout the  body now this can also happen in the heart too  

so heart palpitations really are a problem with  electrolytes when you’re low on calcium you get a  

muscle cramp and you’ll also have skeletal muscle  weakness and then chloride works with sodium  

and it has everything to do with hydration now  there’s a lot of other functions of these minerals  

that relate to other things that aren’t associated  with the electrolytes so i just wanted to focus in  

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