• Ushmel@lemmy.world
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              Electrolytes can help you retain fluid within your vasculature, which helps with pots bc it increases your blood pressure until you pee it out

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              Mostly the treatment required a fluid intake increase and salt intake increase. Put almost too simply, electrolytes are just fancy salts

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                  And to go back to complicating it just a little, those metal salts (particularly sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, plus iodine to make them all do their jobs) make your nervous system and endocrine system work. If the salts and fluids aren’t riding around the vascular system correctly, all sorts of automatic body processes start getting fucky. That’s dysautonomia, like in the name of that website.

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      26 days ago

      It sounds like it was necessary for OP because their Gatorade consumption was too low.

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    This is probably unnecessary. The powder itself should be very shelf stable so I would have just repackaged it in vacuumed sealed bags or get an attachment to vacuum seal the jars (vs heat canning).

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      26 days ago

      You don’t even need to vacuum seal it.

      Just a silica pack would be more than enough.

      Source: bought a few containers on sale a few years ago, all are fine.

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      26 days ago

      Just got that vacuum sealer mason jar attachment and use it every day for coffee. Love it!

      If for nothing else over OP’s method of choice, with the sealer, you can take what you want and reseal without heating up a whole oven every time.

      Credit to OP for using what tools they had available, but if this method improves your situation, they’ll be spending more time hearing and sealing it than drinking it, plus repeated heat cycles may possibly degrade the product.

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          26 days ago

          I use it for the coffee beans and to seal a pour over every night so I have a non watered down cold brew for the morning ready to go.

          I chop bags of onions into half onion portions and celery and carrots into 2 piece portions for soups and stews. Tomato paste into 3oz portions. Curry paste into portions for individual recipes. We make vodka sauce into a 4x recipe and freeze that. Yesterday I made a full instant pot batch if black beans and frozen them into can sized portions of refried beans. Mine has a pulse function so I reseal chip bags.

          I use it a lot and need to find dedicated counter space for it. Start looking at stuff that you think would either work better if it were available in single use form or stuff that is a pain to make but freezes well.

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        It’s called dry oven canning. The oven heats up the contents of the mason jar, so when I put the lids on and let them cool, the air inside comes to a lower pressure and we get a vacuum seal. Same notion as you see with jars of salsa, where the little circle on the lid pops up only once you crack the seal

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    1. Not a good idea to expose that to heat

    2. you don’t need to heat dessicate it, a silica packet will do just as well

    3. it also doesn’t need sterilization

    Basically this sub is lemmys diwhy?