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How Eating Less Salt Affects Your Body When Exercising in the Heat
Original Title
Restricting dietary sodium reduces plasma sodium response to exercise in the heat
doi:10.1111/sms.1274837%
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Methodology score · 37/100
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What’s the bottom line?
Nine fit men ate either low-salt or high-salt diets for 9 days and then cycled in the heat. They drank water to match how much they sweated. The ones on low salt had lower sodium in their blood, higher heart rates, and got hotter, even though they drank the same amount.
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Koenders EE, Franken CPG, Cotter JD, Thornton SN, Rehrer NJ