Supplements / Conditional
Electrolytes (Na/K/Mg)
Best for: Performance, Nutritional coverage
Dose & timing
- Dose
- Match sodium to sweat losses; 500–1500 mg sodium per hour during prolonged exercise or sauna.
- Timing
- During or around exercise; or once daily if low-carb (which depletes sodium).
- Review
- Reassess after 2 to 4 weeks.
- Forms
- sodium-forward electrolyte mix
What this supplement is for
- Useful for endurance training, hot environments, sauna users, and low-carb dieters who lose sodium fast.
- Most products under-dose sodium; the fancy minerals are usually marketing.
When the engine routes this to you
- If your training pattern likely produces meaningful sweat losses: studied for fluid balance during prolonged exercise.
- If low-carb diets lose sodium fast through urine: studied for sodium adequacy in ketogenic diets.
Cautions
- Talk to a clinician first if you have kidney issues.
What to look for in a product
- Preferred third-party verification: Informed Sport, Third-party tested (COA).
- Common contamination risks: Mislabeling / identity.
- Form: Look for sodium content high enough to actually replace sweat losses (often 500+ mg per serving).
Where to get it
We’re building a curated list of third-party-tested products for Electrolytes (Na/K/Mg). Each one will meet our quality bar (preferred certifications, contamination screens) and carry an explicit affiliate disclosure.
Your experience
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We frame these as personal experience, not medical claims. Self-reported subjective outcomes are influenced by placebo, regression to the mean, and parallel lifestyle changes. We’ll never present ratings as equivalent to RCT evidence.
Evidence sources
- Electrolyte and fluid balance during exercise (ACSM) (reviewed 2026-04-30)
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