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let’s talk about the benefits of

sweating from exercise there’s other

benefits of sweating going to a sauna

but I want to emphasize more of the

benefits of sweating from actual

exercise what’s interesting is that a

person could actually lose two to four

liters of sweat and at one hour time

it’s incredible that’s a lot of sweat

sweat is composed of sodium potassium

calcium magnesium

these are the main electrolytes and

chloride and some of the trace minerals

copper iron chromium and urea which is a

byproduct of protein and even lactic

acid so when you sweat it’s like a mini

air conditioner it’s gonna help with

thermal regulation it’s going to cool

you down it’s also going to rebalance

your electrolytes and the advantage to

that is that the average person is

carrying around way too much sodium and

in fact in America based on our diet we

consume about a thousand milligrams more

sodium than we really need and with that

comes all sorts of issues which I’ll get

into in the next slide and also sweating

can increase your endorphins which can

make you feel better it will decrease

stress it will also enhance your sleep

and the combination of an average person

having way too much salt in their body

and sweating out this sodium which by

the way you can eliminate on average 900

milligrams of sodium every single hour

and sometimes up to 2,000 milligrams of

sodium in a given hour and when you’re

sweating you’re not really losing a lot

of these other minerals at all it’s

mainly gonna be sodium okay now let’s

just talk about sodium for a second you

need just the right amount of sodium you

don’t want too little sodium and you

don’t want too much sodium and by the

way when I’m talking about sodium I’m

not talking necessarily about salt salt

is sodium chloride in this situation I’m

talking about sodium of course I would

recommend getting your sodium from sea

salt that’s the best source and I would

recommend one teaspoon per day of sea

salt that will give you

about 2,300 milligrams of sodium as well

as chloride and you’re actually gonna

get 40% of a teaspoon is going to be

sodium and 60% is going to be the

chloride and you need that chloride to

build your hydrochloric acid to help you

digest but if you just keep it simple

and just stick with one teaspoon of sea

salt a day you’re gonna be fine for the

average person if you’re doing a high

carb diet you want to take less and I

don’t recommend doing a high carb diet

but if you are doing high carbs the more

salt you do the more fluid you’re gonna

retain unfortunately when people get

their salt they usually get it in the

form of like a salty chip a pretzel

popcorn pizza they’re not getting it

from things like olives or actual just

sea salt but here are the symptoms of

too little sodium fainting dizzy you get

up too quickly and you feel dizzy low

blood pressure weak muscles low

tolerance to heat so let’s say you’re

out of the heat working out and you just

feel really really bad you can’t

tolerate the heat that is basically low

sodium and craving salt these are the

indications of a sodium deficiency how

do you know if you’re getting too much

you’re getting an edema

you’re gonna swell you’re gonna also

lose your calcium so you might get

cramping and the calcium could

accumulate in your kidneys and give you

a kidney stone that could be one side

effect or high blood pressure possibly

it all depends on how much potassium

you’re consuming I know there’s a huge

push to get everyone off of sodium but

realize we need sodium we need this much

per day

the correct thing to do would be to

supply this and supply the opposing

mineral which is potassium okay and that

comes from the leafy greens but getting

back to the sweating there’s many

benefits of sweating from actual

exercise that’s the best way to sweat

exercise to the point of sweating and

maybe a little bit beyond and in the

days that you’re not working out

intensively go on the long walks all

right thanks for watching

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