Working in serious heat while drinking water without any salty foods or Gatorade-like drinks isn't good.?ÿ
1. Caffeine works against your body's ability to regulate heat, so minimize how much you drink before and during work in the heat.?ÿ
2. Drink at least 64oz of water before noon.
3. Switch to Gatorade or something similar or eat salty foods consistently throughout the day. I find that it's easier to drink enough salt and electrolytes than it is to snack all day.
Two or three tablespoons of honey a tablespoon of Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar, a small pinch of kosher salt to 32oz of water keeps me going. Eat a banana at lunch for potassium and you'll be able to beat a camel in a mid-day marathon in Death Valley.
Farmers used to make switchel (spelling?) With water, molasses, and vinegar that accomplished the same thing.
I experimented with raising the temp in my house and was surprised how much of a difference a few degrees makes.?ÿ If you can tolerate setting the thermostat at 75, you should notice an improvement when working outside.?ÿ?ÿ
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I've heard the formula 1 unit Gatorade-type drink after each 3 or 4 units plain water throughout the day.
What does the vinegar provide?
But I don't think I want to lower my AC thermostat to 75 F. If 77 isn't comfortable move some air.
But I don't think I want to lower my AC thermostat to 75 F. If 77 isn't comfortable move some air.
I keep ours set at 80?ø, but hereabouts the temps usually cool into the low 60s overnight, so we don't have to run the AC all that much.
This is one of the first threads I've seen about the ability of the human body to adapt to conditions.?ÿ I grew up on a farm, still live on one and it seems surprising to me that most folks don't?ÿ know the things that happen at a cellular level.?ÿ In warm weather, I can store up water like a camel but put me in AC for too long and my body starts dumping water even if I haven't had anything to drink for a while.?ÿ I can presume the opposite happens for those living in chilly climates.?ÿ Back in the Navy days, we had to wear leather gloves because everything was too hot to touch on "board and search" operations in the Red Sea.?ÿ You could stand in one spot and a puddle would form under you from your own sweat.?ÿ Djibouti was even a little hotter.?ÿ Africa hot we called it back then.?ÿ I drive around now with my windows open with no AC to help my body with acclimation.?ÿ In the winter however, there is nothing I like better than settling in by a roaring fire.?ÿ Apparently I can acclimate to heat well but not cold.?ÿ Still amazed that there is a whole country north of Maine.
@murphy well I can??t give up my coffee or my brain will work less than it already does. But I always have the salty stuff covered with chili fritos and potted meat with a side of sardines and saltines hot sauce and touch of mustard. ?ÿIf I eat to much i will be worthless and ready for a nap. Oh and evey evening i have to have watermelon sprinkled lightly with salt. ?ÿThats my magic potion.?ÿ
Throwing bales was one of the main reasons I was glad my Dad transitioned the farm to a combined cash crop/hog barn operation just prior to my birth.?ÿ Visiting my dairy friends during the summer, it was "all hands on deck" no matter who you were when it was hay/straw baling time.?ÿ I have only done it a few times but doing the "bucket brigade" of throwing bales when you do not have the elevator was brutal.?ÿ Shoveling feed out of multiple wheelbarrows to a cacophony of squealing wieners seemed like child's play after baling.
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My general rule of thumb for dealing with heat is that if your pee looks like lemonade, you are not hydrating enough.
Aging male diabetics go through a huge amount of liquids daily.?ÿ Often and copious.?ÿ Pretty much anything that is liquid, except coffee and alcoholic drinks, is passing through my personal sewage treatment system daily in sizeable quantities.
We have not operated any residential air-conditioning for three or four years, now.?ÿ Quite tolerable most of the time with an attic fan and a couple other fans.?ÿ Being gone a lot during the afternoon helps a lot.?ÿ We do run the automobile A/C sometimes.
@holy-cow We DO run our air conditioner in the summer.?ÿ Sometimes the night time temperatures will hover in the upper 70s to low 80s.?ÿ I'll sweat in the daytime but come time to sleep it's gotta be cool(er).?ÿ I sleep with a ceiling fan on year round.
I also keep a gallon jug of water in the refrigerator all the time.?ÿ I add a couple of shots of lemon and/or lime juice to it when I fill it.?ÿ I grew up drinking sweet iced tea and probably would but after a few kidney stones and possible links to iced tea I decided to give it up (mostly).
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Plenty of cold water in the fridge plus a few one-liters of diet pop, a half gallon of cranberry juice and a gallon of milk.?ÿ Never leave home without at least a single full one-liter of something to drink.?ÿ My vehicles automatically turn in at every convenience store along the route to drain and replace fluids, politely.?ÿ Last evening, during the middle of a meeting I was chairing, someone asked our guest speaker a question.?ÿ I knew he would take a minimum of five minutes responding.?ÿ So, I slipped out of the room to the nearby restroom, then picked up another 12 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper, before returning to my chair to hear the guest still answering the question.?ÿ No one missed me.
I'm a cheapskate.?ÿ Dollar General has a weekly price break on two-liters of pop.?ÿ Normally, the price is three bottles for $3.?ÿ So, I will purchase nine to twelve at a time.?ÿ At home, I will pour the contents of the big bottles into the empty supply of one-liters that fit nicely on the refrigerator door to supply my traveling needs.
That diet stuff isn't good for you either in large quantities.
That's what my doctor keeps telling me, too.?ÿ A non-smoking, non-drinking guy has to have some sort of vice, you know.
I freeze 2/3 of a gallon milk bottle of water overnight and top it off in the morning.?ÿ Drink that and eat salted almonds for lunch and I seem to do alright.
I hesitate to say this but look up jug huggers.?ÿ I ran into an older surveyor at a bluegrass festival last weekend and he had a gallon jug frozen the night before with an insulated cover.?ÿ Great idea.?ÿ I ordered one right away.
I hesitate to say this but look up jug huggers.
I think you now have the attention of the vast majority of this forum.
@bill93 Nah...its fine...better than the sugar alternative.
@holy-cow That diet stuff is what they use to experiment on rats. ?ÿNow I know you grew up on a farm so i know you have participated in rat killens. Lol. I am not a big soda drinker myself. I love my sweat tea though. I am not a big fan of bottled water either. But I have come to the understanding that old fashion water coolers filled with water from my well and ice thrown in is not what everyone considers to be safe for some darn reason. But I am pretty blessed as we have some good water here. I can taste and smell the chlorine in bottled water . ?ÿI do drink it though because that??s what is bought by the company. I just washed up my 5 gallon water cooler the old gatorade ones. It is going in the work van next week . For me. It gets pretty dusty looking on outside because its what i use on days making hay. But inside is clean. Is there some liability thing that these are no longer used. Or is bottled water cheaper than filling it up at home.?ÿ
@jaccen?ÿ?ÿ Gotta be an easier way
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my room is at 57F at sleep time.?ÿ I've wondered often if my lack of needing much sleep and sleeping in wine cellar temps indicates something.... ?????ÿ