Hydration, Electrolytes & Exercise Nutrition

Fuelling for Performance — an Evidence-Based Guide to Drinking, Salt, and Carbohydrate

Hydration, Electrolytes & Exercise Nutrition is Book F5 of The Performance & Human Physiology Encyclopedia — a 93-volume, university-level library on the metabolic first principles every nutrition decision rests on. It is written for dietitians, nutrition students, coaches and anyone managing their own body: deep enough that a professional already trained in the field keeps learning, structured clearly enough that a motivated reader can follow every step.

What you will find inside

• Fuelling and Hydration for Performance: The Landscape
• Body Water and the Fluid Compartments
• Fluid Balance and Its Regulation
• The Electrolytes
• Thermoregulation and Sweat
• Dehydration: Physiology, Performance, and the 2% Question
• Overhydration and Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia (EAH)
• Hydration Strategy: Before, During, After
• Carbohydrate as the Master Performance Fuel
• Protein, Fat, and the Around-Training Diet
• Sports Drinks, Gels, and Hydration Products: The Honest Evidence
• Special Contexts: Heat, Cold, Altitude, Populations, and Cramps
• Putting It Into Practice: An Evidence-Based Fuelling & Hydration Framework

How this book is written

• University level, without dilution. Exact scientific terminology, defined at first use — mechanisms, not just conclusions.
• Evidence graded, not asserted. Major claims carry a level, from A (strong) to D (expert opinion), so you always know how much weight to give them.
• Numbers, formulas, worked examples. Reference ranges, equations and solved calculations you can apply the same day.
• Myths confronted directly. Where a popular claim does not survive the evidence, the book says so — and shows why.
• Fully referenced (APA 7). References at the end of every chapter, plus a master bibliography.

13 chapters · approx. 118 pages · Book F5, Collection F — Foundational Nutrition & Metabolism.