Peak Week Water and Sodium: What the Evidence Supports, and What It Warns Against

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The last week before a bodybuilding show is where the folklore is thickest: water loading, salt cutting, carb loading, and a stage-day gamble on how the physique will look. There is now a peer-reviewed framework for it, and a survey showing what competitors actually do. The two together make the risks clear.

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