Dr. Peter Attia

And it's not like I don't eat salt. I make zero effort to restrict sodium in my diet. But clearly I was just exercising too much. You know, I mean, especially living in Texas, like when I'm exercising outdoors, I'm sweating like crazy. So it's like you just got to get more salt, man.

And it's not like I don't eat salt. I make zero effort to restrict sodium in my diet. But clearly I was just exercising too much. You know, I mean, especially living in Texas, like when I'm exercising outdoors, I'm sweating like crazy. So it's like you just got to get more salt, man.

So I just went, I literally then did a super deep dive on hydration and realized that there's basically two ways to maximize hydration. Either you consume water with a high enough, not just a high enough, with the absolute correct concentration of glucose in it. And the correct concentration is between 5% and 6%.

So I just went, I literally then did a super deep dive on hydration and realized that there's basically two ways to maximize hydration. Either you consume water with a high enough, not just a high enough, with the absolute correct concentration of glucose in it. And the correct concentration is between 5% and 6%.

So that's 50 to 60 grams of glucose per liter of fluid will maximize water uptake through the sodium water transporter. Or you consume what's called osmotic sodium in water. Those are your two options, with the glucose one being slightly better. And so what I realized is, look, I don't exercise long enough anymore to justify it.

So that's 50 to 60 grams of glucose per liter of fluid will maximize water uptake through the sodium water transporter. Or you consume what's called osmotic sodium in water. Those are your two options, with the glucose one being slightly better. And so what I realized is, look, I don't exercise long enough anymore to justify it.

And the only workout I do a week that is intense enough to justify it is that VO2 max one, where I actually am using glucose in water. But for the rest of my workouts, I don't need it. I just need sodium and water. And then I just went through every product on the market. Like literally went to Amazon, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, order every one of them.

And the only workout I do a week that is intense enough to justify it is that VO2 max one, where I actually am using glucose in water. But for the rest of my workouts, I don't need it. I just need sodium and water. And then I just went through every product on the market. Like literally went to Amazon, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, order every one of them.

And realized at the end of the day, it's a commodity product. Get the one that tastes the best because that's the one you're going to have to suck down every day.

And realized at the end of the day, it's a commodity product. Get the one that tastes the best because that's the one you're going to have to suck down every day.

Maybe just the idea that it's really tempting in the world I live in to want to find single sources of problems. Right. So there's always a boogeyman. And I think, unfortunately, the entire landscape of health influencing and social media has created a very unhelpful narrative around many of these things. And so-

Maybe just the idea that it's really tempting in the world I live in to want to find single sources of problems. Right. So there's always a boogeyman. And I think, unfortunately, the entire landscape of health influencing and social media has created a very unhelpful narrative around many of these things. And so-

There's an effect called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which can be sort of put into a cartoon where it shows experience on the x-axis and confidence on the y-axis. So you've seen this graph, I'm sure, where it starts out like it just skyrockets up.

There's an effect called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which can be sort of put into a cartoon where it shows experience on the x-axis and confidence on the y-axis. So you've seen this graph, I'm sure, where it starts out like it just skyrockets up.

to what's called the peak of stupidity and then it kind of comes down into the valley of humility and then as you become more and more of an expert you gradually rise right so it's this idea of like the deeper you go out from shore the further from shore the deeper the water gets and you and most of what you're what what i'm sure your audience is going to be exposed to because we all are if we're on social media or whatever is like people preaching from the peak of mount stupidity

to what's called the peak of stupidity and then it kind of comes down into the valley of humility and then as you become more and more of an expert you gradually rise right so it's this idea of like the deeper you go out from shore the further from shore the deeper the water gets and you and most of what you're what what i'm sure your audience is going to be exposed to because we all are if we're on social media or whatever is like people preaching from the peak of mount stupidity

And so I think maybe the thing to be thinking about is like what are the signs of that, right? And it's usually people that are like there's one thing that is the thing, right? Like it's this additive in food or it's this particular oil or it's this sugar or it's this, that. And it's like the truth of the matter is it isn't one thing.

And so I think maybe the thing to be thinking about is like what are the signs of that, right? And it's usually people that are like there's one thing that is the thing, right? Like it's this additive in food or it's this particular oil or it's this sugar or it's this, that. And it's like the truth of the matter is it isn't one thing.

Like it's really, really complicated and it's hard to talk about things that are complicated and we tend to – Just want to focus on one thing. And I've been guilty of this myself. If I look at stuff I was writing 15 years ago, I'm like, man, you really oversimplified that too much. Like you over indexed on that and you ignored this thing.

Like it's really, really complicated and it's hard to talk about things that are complicated and we tend to – Just want to focus on one thing. And I've been guilty of this myself. If I look at stuff I was writing 15 years ago, I'm like, man, you really oversimplified that too much. Like you over indexed on that and you ignored this thing.