The Struggle (mander.xyz)
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[–] 81 points 7 months ago (44 children)

I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.

    Finest healthcare in the world!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    LMNT is awesome! Mango chili low key scares me. πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can't bring myself to have her try it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I understand. It is costly. I use it because of its potency and other ingredients. But I am open to suggestions for better products.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.

    The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.

    Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Consider also reducing your sugar intake!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it's the fizz specifically. And if it's sodas... Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.

    If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it's like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : --cancer-- (edit : the cancer part is wrong aparently, see coment bellow) and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i'm really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let's improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max

    The aspartame cancer study is a complete joke. They fed those mice a x1000 higher concentration of sweetener than any human would ever eat

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.

    I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice?

    Even more amazing is that people paint the Monster logo (the three claw marks) on their fucking cars. Imagine getting your sense of self-worth from your overpriced energy taurine drink of choice.

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