Hmm! Live and learn. I always thought potassium was the biggie in terms of becoming incapacitated via electrolyte depletion. Based on that, I assumed that the "salt pills" routine from ~50 years ago was a roundabout (archaic) way of getting trace amounts of potassium that are in most sodium salts.


Edited by dougwalkabout (06/13/13 01:21 AM)