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hey! i DIED from an electrolyte imbalance. word.
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Distilled water doesn't conduct electricity. Add electrolytes. Now it does. SCIENCE.
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You will die from diarrhea without electrolytes. Ask any nurse or doctor, dumbass.
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I read about electrolytes on the internets, they must be real.
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Nothing a few neck bolts and lightning can't fix.

Diarrhea kills more kids worldwide than die from watching stupid TV commercials.
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I think you mean electric lights.
7
reminds of me of Idiocracy, where they think electrolytes are what everything needs.
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I hope you're drunk, Megan, because if you're not, that's the most stupid post all day.
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https://health.google.com/health/ref/Hyp…
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Hyponatremia

Complications:
Brain herniation
Death
Possible coma

"On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother, hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii game consoles. KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. "
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No Brawndo references yet? For what it's worth:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness…

If that satisfies you, you can join me in my disdain for people talking about getting rid of "toxins."
14
Whaddya mean you "don't believe" in electric lights? That's crazy talk. How else can you find the bathroom in the middle of the night?
15
How about magnets? Do you believe in magnets?
16
Oh yeah? Well I don't believe in Megan Seling. I think she's a completely made up thing. The Stranger has to stop "putting" her in everything.

SEE HOW IT FEELS?
17
This reminds me, when we run out of Helium, do we cross it off the periodic chart?

Are we playing Periodic Table Of The Elements Bingo?
18
I don't believe in electrolytes, fortified minerals, or boomerangs. I mean, come on.
19
Megan has a point, if poorly expressed. Electrolytes are important to your body. But, there's a balance issue involved. Too much of one will deplete another. Or screw up your blood pressure. Sprinkling some mineral salts in soft drinks is little more than a marketing tool. Which is not to say there isn't a place for sports/electrolyte drinks. When needed.
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FUCKIN' ELECTROLYTES, HOW DO THEY WORK?
21
Sodium is an electrolyte. All you have to do is add salt to something to claim that it has "added electrolytes".
So is potassium.
Apparently it's everything ending in "ium".
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ooh ooh...and another thing.
Remember when Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack because she was anorexic and shit?
Well. Electrolyte imbalance. From puking and not eating. True story.
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@14 fireflies.
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oh, they exist. but see, what is more upsetting is the conditions that the unicorns and the wee folk that are made to milk them - just so we can have our precious sports drinks - are forced to endure every. single. day.

& believe you me, normal factory farming and third-world sweatshops are happy twinkle frou-frou land compared to THAT!
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@20 - awesome
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But... electrolytes are what plants need!
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@ 15 -

Do you believe in magnets
In a young girl's heart
How the magnets can free her
When attraction starts
And it's magnets
If electrolyte's groovy
It makes you feel freaky
Like a porno movie

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Electrolytes are a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our thirst, I'll say it again,
Electrolytes are a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our thirst,
I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in I-ching,
I don't believe in bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Will in Seattle,
I don't believe in Fnarf,
I don't believe in Obama,
I don't believe in Buddha,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in Gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Beiber,
I don't believe in Zimmerman,
I don't believe in The Stranger,
I just believe in me,
Slog and me,
And that's reality.
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merry, ten million points to you and your heirs and assigns. stinkbug, five million (no italics).
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Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator

http://www.brawndo.com/

It's got what plants crave!
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@20 has it.
32
Aw shucks, gus...

blush blush
33
What's the abbreviation for Electrolytes on the periodic table of elements? I can't seem to find it.
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@21 beat me to it. Electrolytes = salt (well, and other stuff, but everything liquid with salt can claim to have electrolytes). And one thing we don't need more of in our diet is salt.
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Not everything, just those molecules you need for...you know...brain working. Potassium and Sodium are the big ones, though.
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If electrolytes didn't exist, we'd have to invent them ... except we'd all be dead.
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when you go to the hospital and get an i.v. they give you saline.... that's pretty much electrolytes.

they're not something we "invented" but rather something we discovered and then were used in a marketing campaign. we've been drinking electrolytes for a long time until one day we decided to filter out everything that wasn't a hydrogen or oxygen atom in our water supply.
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Kelly O told me to drink them when I'm hung-over.?
Worlds are colliding!
39
young coconut water.
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I always thought that the name was made up for marketing purposes to sell more stuff.
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if you don't believe in electrolytes you don't drink much
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on vacation in europe, I found myself drinking only bottled water for a few days in a row. A headache developed and worsened until I woke up early one morning and poured a tablespoon of salt into a glass, added water and chugged. The headache went away in an hour. The bottled water was distilled water, which contained no salts (aka electrolytes).
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electrolytes are polar ionic molecules dumb fuck and they don'y put them in drinks, they put sugar, which is why your an ugly bitch. so suck on ma D motha
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Electrolytes are salts. It's just a sexier word for salts.

The last thing a couch potato eating potato chips needs is more salts. However, if you're an athlete, you need to worry about them because you lose salt when you sweat a lot. This is something I think about when I work out or go on a long hike.

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