Humans need approx 1tsp (or less) of sodium daily as an essential nutrient. I was low on sodium this morning* then spent the day at the beach in the salty ocean air, then within about 30 minutes I wasn’t dizzy and nauseous anymore. Did the ocean air provide me sodium somehow?

*(dizzy & nauseous, I know the symptoms well since I often have no sodium in my diet and I’ve learned this through experience the last 5 years and I have to consciously remember to add sodium to my diet, and if I forget then I have dizziness and nausea)

Reddit wouldn’t let me post this for some reason, Maybe because that subreddit r/askadoctor is dead, there have been no posts there for 3 years, so instead of abandoning my attempt at a post, I screenshat it and posting it here on Lemmy.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Apparently sea air has a salinity of about 10ng per m^3

    1tsp is about 5g of salt

    So you would need to breathe in 500,000m^3 of air

    Apparently we don’t breathe anything remotely close to that in a day, so I’m gonna say probably not based on that