Electrolytes for Hematocrit

[Alphawavs]

Have been bombarded with Chase Irons content lately, and one thing he seems to preach is adding electrolytes to ALL drinking water to manage high hematocrit.

Using GPT, I've concluded that there's some real science that supports this but I'm curious if anyone has actually used this in their supplementation/hydration and resolved their high hematocrit issues?

Side note; my hematocrit isnt high currently, but I have future plans that will make it high...

Thanks in advance for sharing.

 

[Meetketchup]

First mistake was listening to Chase.

Seriously though, hydration alone can decrease hematocrit up to a few percentage points. Electrolytes "unless deficient" aren't going to add much if anything. Assuming you aren't' an endurance athlete and have good nutrition I highly don't you are deficient.

 

[elit3keraed]

Have been bombarded with Chase Irons content lately, and one thing he seems to preach is adding electrolytes to ALL drinking water to manage high hematocrit.

Using GPT, I've concluded that there's some real science that supports this but I'm curious if anyone has actually used this in their supplementation/hydration and resolved their high hematocrit issues?

Side note; my hematocrit isnt high currently, but I have future plans that will make it high...

Thanks in advance for sharing.

I think it’s very subjective, I drink anywhere from 150 to 200 ounces of water a day, including the water I drink during training. So I tend to piss a lot and therefor am most likely losing a lot of electrolytes.

When I do my fasted bloodwork, even chugging 80 ounces of water between the time I wake up and the time I have my blood drawn, my hematocrit and hemoglobin is always pretty high. Like 54 to 55 and 17.7 respectively.

The last time I donated Blood, it was after a workout, and I had about 80 ounces of water between pre-intra and post workout. Alongside that I had about 1.8 g of sodium, 1.2 g of potassium, and 2 1/2 g of taurine powder. My hemoglobin came out at 16.3.

I have not had my hemoglobin under 17 since I started TRT 16 years ago.

Now I can’t say if it was the electrolytes specifically because one of the things you read from a lot of forums is guys saying that you just need to chug a gallon of water before you go in for bloodwork and you’ll be fine, but considering 80oz didn’t seem to budge it much for fasted bloodwork, but about the same amount WITH a bunch of electrolytes got it to drop by a large amount, I’d say there’s a fair case to be made. At least for myself.

EDIT: Rehh definitely knows his shit more than me so listen to him

 

[Alphawavs]

First mistake was listening to Chase.

Seriously though, hydration alone can decrease hematocrit up to a few percentage points. Electrolytes "unless deficient" aren't going to add much if anything. Assuming you aren't' an endurance athlete and have good nutrition I highly don't you are deficient.

But Chase says I can offset the sides from 10 grams of test with a couple packets of LMNT... I want to believe

I do mechanic work in Texas... so at times, I definitely FEEL like an endurance athlete.

 

[elit3keraed]

But Chase says I can offset the sides from 10 grams of test with a couple packets of LMNT... I want to believe

I do mechanic work in Texas... so at times, I definitely FEEL like an endurance athlete.

If you’re sweating a lot then yeah electrolytes could most likely benefit you. That’s why endurance athletes benefit from it so tremendously.

When it was 110 every day over here in Cali, I was legitimately drinking 4 to 5 bottles of water mixed with a scoop of electrolyte powder (it was prime that I got for like 10 cents a serving on clearance) because I was melting during the day in my work van and working at customers. This was on top of my usually 150+ oz of water a day

Now that it’s cooled off I can get away with not drinking any but I still add some to my pre workout just because I’m super low on calories right now so I know I’m missing some

 

[Startingover]

16k fus of natto brought mine down

 

[Alphawavs]

If you’re sweating a lot then yeah electrolytes could most likely benefit you. That’s why endurance athletes benefit from it so tremendously.

When it was 110 every day over here in Cali, I was legitimately drinking 4 to 5 bottles of water mixed with a scoop of electrolyte powder (it was prime that I got for like 10 cents a serving on clearance) because I was melting during the day in my work van and working at customers. This was on top of my usually 150+ oz of water a day

Now that it’s cooled off I can get away with not drinking any but I still add some to my pre workout just because I’m super low on calories right now so I know I’m missing some

Definitely sweat my ass off. Can weigh in pounds below my morning weight by end of day if I don't hydrate enough.

I've added nutricost high sodium electrolytes over the last two months and have noticed more consistent pumps in the gym in a deficit along with pretty crazy vascualarity most days. I actually flatten out pretty significantly on the days I don't supplement electrolytes. Even on non-work days

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

lot of forums is guys saying that you just need to chug a gallon of water before you go in for bloodwork and you’ll be fine

I never understood this ideology. If I chug water just for the test, what happens tomorrow when the test is over and I go back to not drinking any water? Instead of getting an accurate depiction of what my bloodwork is on a day-to-day basis, I cheat the test, then go back to a condition that doesn't represent how I am actually living. Besides, Why TF do I want to cheat the bloodwork anyway. It's not like they arrest you if your hematocrit is high.

Make it make sense.

 

[Battousai]

Just make sure you are hydrating amd doing cardio. Chase Irons blocked me on social media

 

[Cypher]

First mistake was listening to Chase.

This.