Categories: Compound
Type: Compound
Importance- To Body:
Electrolytes are substances whose solution conducts electric currents. This solution is the same by which chemical processes, such as nerve impulses, take place.
Distribution- In Body:
Most all tissues and systems throughout human body.
Excess Effects:
None Listed.
Deficiency Effects:
Dehydration, Hyponatremia.
Sources Food:
A home-made electrolyte drink can be made by using water, sugar and salt in precise proportions. Sports drinks, Milk, Nuts, many fruits and vegetables.
Sources Environmental/Geographic:
Supplemental information:
- Solutions of acids, bases, and salts conduct an electric current readily.
- Solutions of sugar, alcohol, or glycerol do not conduct electrical currents readily.