Date:   5/14/2012 1:56:49 PM ( 12 y ago)
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That's quite a comprehensive post/message DL, so thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Quite brilliant if I may say so.

Nutrition is a huge, diverse and complicated subject.

Interesting also that you should raise the topics of PH balance and acidosis. I think it was Shelton and George Weger MD who first disproved the notion that fasting causes acidosis long-term.

George Weger MD..........
"Varying degrees of acidosis were often in evidence during fasting. These we consider physiological. Except in very rare instances, the active symptoms are of short duration and easily overcome without interfering with or curtailing the fast." He describes the "symptoms of acidosis during a fast" as "lassitude, headache, leg and back ache, irritability, restlessness, redness of the buccal (mouth) mucous membrane and tongue, sometimes drowsiness, and also a fruity odor to the breath."

SHELTON.......
"The above symptoms develop at the beginning of the fast and grow less and less as the fast continues, until they cease altogether".

So acidosis and its symptoms should not be confused with an electrolyte deficiency in the latter stages of a protracted fast.

The confusion for me in years gone by was that I assumed all minerals of use to the body acted as electrolytes, and the possibility of malnutrition via water-only-fasting occupied my thinking for quite some time. The conclusion I came to, and shared by many, was the real possibility of an electrolyte deficiency: the main reason Dr Joel Fuhrman MD broke his own fast on day 46.
Interesting also that Vitamin deficiencies are unheard of on even the most protracted of fasts.

For the more discerning/informational types here though, and back to the original question in the thread, an electrolyte by definition is a solution that contains free ions, so no mineral by itself is an electrolyte.
However, if you dissolve minerals that are salts (in the chemistry sense) like NaCl, KCl, CaCO3, you will get positive and negative ions, and then the fluid would be an electrolyte/electrolytic solution.
This is a biology versus chemistry thing really, but I try and marry the two together as best I can, but not very successfully I fear.

Chrisb1.



 

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