There’s always lots of interesting health and science research popping up every few weeks and one of the last ones to catch my attention is a condition called Hyponatremia. Definitely sounds scary and so it should. It’s a serious, life-threatening condition that has come to the attention of the media following several deaths of healthy and fit people on the Kokoda Trail.
When this condition is present during an activity like an ultra-marathon or trekking the Kokoda trail, a person’s sodium level has dropped to a dangerously low level. By drinking way too much water, the sodium levels in the body become diluted and can bring about hyponatremia and its symptoms of nausea, confusion, loss of appetite, lethargy, headache, reduced level of consciousness, seizures or coma.
If you take part in serious endurance activity of any sort where you are worried about dehydration, consider that there is such a thing as having “too much to drink”. Do some research and analysis for yourself to determine how much fluid you need to replace during your activity.?
Part of your recovery
Along with proper nutrition following serious endurance activities, it is important to have a few massages mixed in with light workouts and stretching. Musclefix can provide you with an excellent solution during your recovery. We can come and give you remedial and sports massage as a premium service in your home in the days or weeks of your recuperation. Remedial massage will help to speed up recovery and smooth out micro tears and help with DOMS following your adventure.
For more on Hyponatremia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18333641
I came across some interesting research published in the San Francisco Chronicle the other week. You would think if you were a super-fit cyclist, covering 100 to a several hundred kilometres per week that you would be a superb specimen of health and fitness.