RESTORING ELECTROLYTE BALANCE :
1. Drink Enough Water
Drinking enough water maintains proper electrolyte levels and/or restores electrolyte balance.
2. Hydrate Your Body After Exercising
Drink plenty of water after your regular workout as during exercising and sweating a significant amount of electrolytes is lost.
3. Adjust Your Diet
First and foremost, you need to avoid processed and heavily fried foods and replace them with home-cooked and healthy meals.
Eat more cruciferous vegetables, avocados, cabbage, bananas, broccoli, and squash. To stay properly hydrated, consume cucumber, celery, watermelon, citrus fruits, carrots, bell peppers, amasai, pineapple, kiwi, kefir, and yogurt. If your calcium levels are too low, eat more legumes, dairy products, veggies, and beans.
4. Check Your Medications
Certain medications, such as hormonal pills, blood pressure medications, diuretics, and antibiotics, may affect the electrolyte levels in the body. Diuretics and laxatives changes the levels of potassium and sodium in the blood and urine, making them either too high or too low.
5. Monitor Your Sodium Intake
Most packaged and processed foods are packed with sodium, which in turn leads to kidney disease and electrolyte imbalance. If you limit your sodium intake and maintain normal electrolyte levels, you will prevent dehydration, bloating, weakness, irritability, lethargy, and muscle cramps.
6. Supplementing
If dietary changes don’t help you regulate the levels of important nutrients in the body, consult your doctor about potential supplementing.