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The flu like symptoms are mostly electrolyte imbalance in my experience. You lose a lot of water weight and salt.
by rhinoceraptor 9y ago
The flu like symptoms are mostly electrolyte imbalance in my experience. You lose a lot of water weight and salt.
- mrob 9y agoAlthough I had not heard that reasoning before, I was told to increase water and salt consumption, which I did. Possibly this could have prevented any flu-like symptoms.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoWhen you deplete glycogen (you can store about 500 grams of it), you also lose 3 grams of water per gram of glycogen. So in total, you lose about 1.5 liters of water once you're fully glycogen depleted.