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Well what would actually happen if you ran out of electrolytes now if you ran out completely

you would die but if you ran out just a little bit all sorts of things would happen but the main

big thing that will happen is you'll lose electrical power of your nerves, your muscles, and

your cells. I have a really short little demo to tell you exactly what I mean. All right we're

going to do an experiment, a demonstration. We have a light source, we have a power source,

it's plugged into the wall over here you can see the cords and we have an incomplete circuit

okay electrical circuit. We cut the wire and we put the wire into distilled water. Distilled water

is water without minerals and without electrolytes. Electrolites are electrically charged minerals

okay so we have no conductivity here you can see there's no light so we're going to take some

electrolytes here, take a scoop of electrolytes and we'll pour it in to this distilled water

and let's see what happens and now we're going to mix it with the water to make sure it's

dissolving and look what's happening. We have a complete circuit now so one of the main purposes

of electrolytes in the body is to power the nervous system which is the electrical system in the

body which powers the muscles and all the different organs. All right so now that you know generally

what electrolytes are let's talk about how you would create a deficiency. Well one way is when

you start doing fasting especially if you do prolonged fasting and you only drink water without

electrolytes you see our bodies don't store electrolytes for a long period of time. I'm talking

about potassium, magnesium, sodium, chlorides or calcium okay they don't store these minerals so

if you're drinking water first of all you're diluting these minerals when you're fasting and then

you're not eating you're going to run out of electrolytes and a lot of people are already running

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