wabi-sabi
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Oral rehydration solutions contain glucose to help the intestine absorb the sodium better. There's something called a sodium-glucose linked transporter on your intestinal cells that does this. Since these solutions are often used for children with scary amounts of diarrhea, they children don't have enough glucose in their intestine to absorb the fluid and sodium. In a healthy adult, I'm guessing there is enough food in your intestine to help the salt and fluid absorb so you probably don't need all that maple syrup.
I'm also guessing that some of your previous experiences with salt solutions and diarrhea were from too high a salt concentration, since drinking lots of sea water will give you diarrhea whether there's sugar in there or not. My doc recommended drinking both water AND an salt solution for best hydration, not just one. I try to alternate glasses of each throughout the day. Salt solutions are things like the commercially prepared hyrdalyte, pedialtye, or normalyte or home made stuff like Dr. Cheney's homebrew or your mix.
Oral rehydration solutions contain glucose to help the intestine absorb the sodium better. There's something called a sodium-glucose linked transporter on your intestinal cells that does this. Since these solutions are often used for children with scary amounts of diarrhea, they children don't have enough glucose in their intestine to absorb the fluid and sodium. In a healthy adult, I'm guessing there is enough food in your intestine to help the salt and fluid absorb so you probably don't need all that maple syrup.
I'm also guessing that some of your previous experiences with salt solutions and diarrhea were from too high a salt concentration, since drinking lots of sea water will give you diarrhea whether there's sugar in there or not. My doc recommended drinking both water AND an salt solution for best hydration, not just one. I try to alternate glasses of each throughout the day. Salt solutions are things like the commercially prepared hyrdalyte, pedialtye, or normalyte or home made stuff like Dr. Cheney's homebrew or your mix.