Robert Gorgosch

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Welcome back to Unlocking Performance, the ministry podcast.
Hello, I'm Robert Gorgosch, nutritionist and performance coach.
Here in our short format series, we're going to explore nutrition topics in brief episodes before diving into our in-depth long form discussions with different experts.
Maintaining hydration is one of the key challenges for endurance athletes, particularly during prolonged exercise in hot and humid environments.
where sweat losses can exceed 2 to 3 liters per hour.
Even moderate dehydration exceeding 2% of body mass increases cardiovascular strain, elevates core temperature, and can impair endurance performance.
Consequently, sports nutrition research has focused not only on replacing fluid losses during exercise,
but also on strategies that allow athletes to begin exercise with greater body water stores.
One such approach is pre-exercise hyperhydration.
Alan McCubbin shared some very interesting views on this topic in one of his recent reviews that I would like to sum up in the following words.
Simply drinking a lot of plain water before exercise doesn't actually help your body hold on to more fluid.
When you drink a large amount of water quickly, it dilutes your blood and your body senses this and turns off the hormone that normally tells your kidneys to conserve water.
As a result, your kidneys just flush the extra water out as urine, so most of what you drank ends up in the toilet before you even start exercising, instead of staying in your body where it's needed.
Adding sodium can change this completely.
Sodium helps keep your blood at the right concentration, which keeps that water-conserving hormone active and tells your kidneys to hold onto fluid instead of getting rid of it.
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