Sweat, salt, and hydration: Sports scientist Andy Blow covers the essentials of hydration

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes sits down with Andy Blow, a world-renowned expert in sweat, dehydration, and cramping to discuss how you can lock in your hydration. Andy draws on his experience as a triathlete and a Formula 1 sports scientist to help explain what you need to know about your own hydration -- and how to avoid common mistakes when it comes to hydration and fueling. Andy discusses the variability in sweat losses from person to person (8:56), what our bodies do while sweati...

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down on top athletes, researchers, scientists, more, learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak, and what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. This week's episode is all
0:23.1	about hydration. Woop VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, sits down with Andy Blow, a world-renowned
0:30.2	expert in sweat, dehydration, and cramping to discuss how you can lock in your hydration.
0:36.0	Andy is the founder of precision fuel and hydration and is
0:39.7	a sports scientist who spent part of his career working for the Benetton and Renault Formula One teams.
0:46.5	Kristen and Andy discuss how our body functions when we sweat and the load that's sweating
0:51.4	places on our cardiovascular system. What electrolytes are when we need
0:56.0	them and how to best go about replenishing them, how to avoid overhydrating, and why some of the
1:01.2	common signs you might look for to judge your hydration levels might be leading you astray.
1:06.5	The critical role sodium plays in hydration and what alcohol does to your body and ways you can
1:12.2	approach hydration even if you are drinking. A reminder, we have new ways to interact with
1:17.4	the WOOP podcast. You can email us, podcast at Woop.com, or you can call our new listener line
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1:59.0	And without further ado, here are Kristen Holmes and Andy Blow.
2:05.3	Andy Blow is the founder of precision, fuel, and hydration. He is a sports scientist with a
2:10.1	degree in sports and exercise science from the University of Bath. And how salty is Andy?
2:16.1	Well, he loses over 1,850 milligrams of sodium per liter of sweat.
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