Electrolyte Calculations

Let's see. "it's estimated that 2 sodium ions and 1 chloride ion are necessary for creatine transport." but I also want a 1-to-1 molar ratio between my sodium and potassium - we need about 2x more potassium than sodium, but we sweat sodium faster, or something like that. Bicarbonate ion buffers are recommended in insanely high doses per kg, so that is a limit I am not going to hit. Magnesium losses via sweat seem to be minimal so I'll also leave that out for now. Hence,

for ONCE-DAILY PRE-WORKOUT ONLY ( excluding further consumption normal feedings ) :

PART A

creatine monohydrate : pushing about 0.1g/1000g body weight, I'd be dosing 5g as a 50+kg guy ( creatine monohydrate absorbs atmospheric water on-shelf, beware )

PART B

potassium : winging this at about 4g RDA, say 25% is ( 0.025576559594663 = X ) mol, and if the salt is potassium chloride that's 1.90675809 g 

sodium : X mol of sodium chloride is 1.49451511 g + X mol of sodium bicarbonate is 2.14861004 g

So that puts us at :

- X mol potassium, K+

- X mol bicarbonate, HCO3-

- 2X mol sodium, Na+

- 2X mol chloride, Cl-

Totaling ~5.6 g salts + 5g creatine + some amount of water.

Hm. Right, time for some drinking games ...

Anecdotally, people have tried something like thing with one quarter the salt molarity, so I may knock it down in future tests if I survive this one.

Next test should be for

- Y mol potassium

- Y mol chloride

- Y mol sodium 

- Y mol bicarbonate

- Y = X/2 = 0.0127882797973315

- 0.95337904717 g potassium chloride

- 1.07430502093 g sodium bicarbonate

- totalling ~2.1 g salts