What a 500mg serving assumes about you
A 500mg dose is built on a sweat-loss assumption: that you have recently lost a meaningful amount of sodium and need to put it back quickly. If that describes your afternoon, the dose is doing its job.
The problem is the default. Most people reach for the same packet at their desk, in the car, or on a flight — situations with essentially no sweat loss — and the sodium math no longer lines up with the need.
The everyday math
The FDA's Daily Value for sodium is 2,300mg, and most Americans already run well past it from food alone — so what a drink adds during ordinary, non-training hours matters.
Two 500mg servings is 1,000mg of sodium from a drink before food enters the picture. Repeating that daily is a different decision than repeating 88mg.
A different tool for a different hour
Balanced 88 Gold Sodium™ — 88mg from mineral sea salt with a published 90+ trace minerals, not 1,000mg of plain salt.
Frequently asked
- Is 500mg of sodium too much in an electrolyte drink?
- It depends entirely on the hour. After heavy sweating it is a reasonable replacement dose. As an all-day default with little sweat loss, it adds a substantial share of the 2,300mg Daily Value before you have eaten anything.
- What should I drink on non-training days?
- Something dosed for ordinary hours. Hydrate Heroes® carries 88mg of sodium per stick — enough to absorb and hold water, light enough to repeat.