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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 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,

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