Re: RC: Human electrolyting

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In a message dated 6/13/00 10:10:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sbrown@wamedes.com writes:

<< To all of you who ride in heat and humidity on a regular basis...what do
 you do for electrolytes for yourself?  Do you have some kind of regular
 regime?  (Steve said they used to feed them salt tablets when he played
 football in the Houston area in high school.)  Does acclimating to that
 kind of weather do anything else other than just increase your mental
 tolerance -- ie, are there any physiological changes that actually happen
 in the human body to better adapt it to the demands of heat and humidity? >>

Sue, like horses, people are different.  I know many people need to "lyte" 
but as a blood pressure patient who had a low salt tolerance to begin with, 
all I can say is that taking ANY product containing sodium not only gives me 
blood pressure problems but also makes me feel nauseous.  I've done fine with 
heat and humidity (until the past year or two, but I think it has more to do 
with being overweight and underfit) by making sure that I stay well-hydrated, 
drink LOTS of milk (Ca seems to be an issue for me, but I know others would 
be positively nauseated by the amount of milk that I drink), and remember to 
EAT.  I've always enjoyed hot DRY climates (they could have just left me out 
in the desert in Dubai and I'd've been fine) and have been able to tolerate 
the humidity reasonably well for one not especially aclimated to it.  So I 
don't think the lytes are the whole story,  not by a long shot...

Heidi