In simpler words, electrolytes help your body function optimally, sending the correct messages through your fluid and across the cells. (Think muscles contracting and relaxing, and nerve impulses sending the right directions out to parts of your body.)
The major electrolytes you body needs are:
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Chloride
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Bicarbonate
- Phosphate
- Sulfate
All these minerals are extremely important for muscle, heart, and brain function and to keep your body's acid-base balanced.
When you exercise heavily or live in a very hot tropical area, sweating can cause you to lose electrolytes through the salty residue on your skin. That means that the fluids inside your body systems and especially your cells are missing key ingredients to function.
So sports drinks were created with minerals added to help with this imbalance. But sugars and artificial (read chemical) flavoring were added to make it taste better. So you get the bad with the good.
Coconut water is chock full of these minerals in an all natural liquid that is so close to your body's fluids that it has been used as an intravenous solution in times of emergencies in other countries.
Read the labels on the different coconut water brands and you will see how perfect coconut water is for replacing needed electrolytes in your body. Or better yet, drink pure CW from a young green coconut.
Dehydration and losing electrolytes can be a very dangerous state for a body to be in. Electrolyte imbalance will interfere with all the functioning systems in your body, resulting in serious problems. Make healthy coconut water a part of your daily fluid intake especially if you exercise a lot. Balance is the key and coconut water is the way to keep that balance in a pure, natural way.
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