Sunday, August 30, 2015

How to Detect Dehydration in Yourself

Human sweat more than other mammals. This makes the loss of water and electrolytes is important for optimal body performance.

Mineral serves to adjust the pH or acidity of the blood, as well as muscle and nerve function. You can still move with optimal fit while exercising or when drinking the right fluids at the right time.

Began to drink water at least 15 minutes prior to any activity. When exercising, for example, try to drink 8 ounces of water every 20 minutes.

After exercising, the body vulnerable to loss or experienced a weight gain because the amount of fluids we drink and lost during the move.

Therefore, weigh yourself before and after exercise, and reduce the weight of the water you drink while exercising.

If the difference between the weight before and after exercise is 2 percent, your athletic performance suffers.

When that happened was to lose weight, the rate of two percent will give potential health risks, including those that disrupt the heart rate and body temperature.

When measuring the weight loss is hard to do or not do enough for you dehydrated condition, there are some things that can be done, as reported Menshealth, Sunday (30/08/2015).

Go to the bathroom

An easy way to see if you are drinking enough is to use urine tests. Increasingly clear urine released, the better.

If your urine looks more like lemonade iced tea instead of water, you obviously dehydrated.

Water should be drunk

Water is the best drink during exercise. But if you're really sweating for more than 30 minutes, sports drinks could be the next best option.

This drink offers potassium, sodium and other electrolytes to replenish minerals lost through sweat.

The concentration of carbohydrates in sports drinks allows them to be absorbed by the body up to 30 percent faster than water, which means the energy you can recover more quickly than with plain water.

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