If it tastes excessively salty, it?s probably due to an imbalance in your chemistry. The chloride pair (Sodium Chloride or Potassium Chloride) can give a drink its salty nature.

Q: What are Electrolytes?
A: An Electrolytes is a fluid solution that conducts "electricity" in the human body.

The main Electrolytes are: sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium bicarbonate, chloride and sulfate. It is the balance of these Electrolytes in an aqueous solution that is one of the keys to maintaining optimal health.

Electrolytes rely on water.

"Water is the solvent in which most of the chemical reactions of life occur."
"Water is compatible with more substances than any known solvent, and therefore it is an ideal medium for transporting nutrients in the cells and for the chemical reactions of cellular metabolism to take place."

There are supposedly more cells in the body than stars in the universe and each cell is dependent on water and the proper ratio and concentration of Electrolytes.
"?the level of one or more Electrolytes in the body can stray far from the optimum before we become sufficiently aware of the problem to remedy it."

According to one of the leading nutritional textbooks used by universities worldwide:
"The maintenance of body fluid and Electrolytes is of vital importance for sound health and nutrition."

Q: Electrolytes Salts: What they are and how do they affect optimal wellness in humans?
A: Sodium?Sodium is an essential mineral necessary for the transport of nutrients within the body.

However, in the American diet, excessive intake of sodium is not only common but at times, extraordinary. Example of a processed food meal:

People are taking 2 ? 3 times the amount of sodium recommended by expert panels. The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of sodium is 2400 mgs or less. The meal above already exceeds this amount! According to the American Dietetic Association, "?most of the sodium that Americans consume comes from processed or prepared foods, not from the salt shaker at the kitchen table."

Because of the excesses of sodium in the American diet, electrolyte formulas are designed to have a low amount of sodium per serving (64 mg). But it is the balance with potassium that makes this formula even more unique.

Potassium
According to nutrition experts:

"It is possible that maintaining potassium intake at a level equal to sodium intake (Sodium/Potassium intake ratio of 1:1) may protect against the adverse effects of high sodium intake."

Potassium and Magnesium
Of further importance is the ratio of potassium to magnesium. Potassium and magnesium acts as muscle relaxants in counterbalance to calcium and sodium which act as muscle contractants. But this is only the beginning of the discussion of one of the most important Electrolytes, namely magnesium.

Magnesium
Magnesium is one of the most important Electrolytes of all. It serves as an important part of more than 300 enzymes in the human body essential to optimal functioning. An enzyme is a protein that affects the speed of a metabolic reaction. The proper functioning of enzymes is essential to the maintenance of health.

The role of magnesium and health is so important that in 1971 the International Society for the Development of Research on Magnesium was founded. Today, the peer-reviewed medical journal Magnesium is found in scientific libraries worldwide.

While participating in sporting activities, sweat losses of magnesium can be 10-25% of the daily loss. This can be very important to active adults engaged in sports and other outdoor activities.

"Avoidance of magnesium depletion is important for the proper maintenance of carbohydrate metabolism and for optimizing body potassium balance?"

Phosphorus
One rarely hears much about phosphorus yet it: Helps generate energy in every cell in your body? and acts as the main regulator of energy metabolism in your body?s organs. Further, "It is a major component of bones and teeth, second only to calcium." Also it, "Serves as part of DNA and RNA, which are your body?s master plan for cell growth and repair."

Chloride
Often, chloride, another important Electrolytes is under appreciated.

It helps regulate fluids in and out of body cells. Nutrition experts state that chloride? "is a component of stomach acid, helps with the digestion of your food and the absorption of nutrients." i.e. hydrochloric acid. It also, "Helps transmit nerve impulses, or signals."

Bicarbonates
Bicarbonates are important in keeping balance with chlorides in the body.

Research has suggested that the use of bicarbonates may be beneficial in the absorption of proteins and in short-term high intensity effort.

Other important uses in the body of bicarbonates include helping with ammonia detoxification neutralizing excess acids, and absorption of amino acids.

Sulfur
Although sulfur is present in every cell of the human body and is part of three essential vitamins (thiamine, pantothenic acid, biotin), and the powerful antioxidant lipoic acid, it is the most neglected nutrient in all Electrolytes solutions in the market today.

There are 100?s of way?s to use Balanced Electrolyte Concentrate

You can add it to:

You can cook with it in:

The American Medical Association (AMA) wanted to lower normal body temperature from 98.6 to 98.0, not because it was healthier, but too few people were found to have "an ideal" body temperature. This attempt to change what is considered an ideal temperature for humans has a great deal to do with one of the effects of Electrolytes.