There’s one drink for replenishing electrolytes that has its instructions, “drink until it tastes salty.” The idea being that if your body really needs sodium, potassium, etc, it won’t taste bad until you’ve reached the proper levels.
There’s the other part of sports nutrition that says that your stomach can’t process over 10%(?) sugar solution and it’s counterproductive to go beyond that while exercising.
But back to water. A couple of other takes on it: I guess if you don’t want to actually retain the water weight, it’s best to drink plain water then. Or, water is the better fluid to use if wanting to do a “flush.” Not tested against whatever actress’s fad “health” company’s product is.
If you aren’t losing electrolytes faster than you are taking them in, you can seriously unbalance your heart rhythm. Pedialyte is an emergency beverage, as is Gatorade. So, ya’ll be careful out there.
Curiously enough I drank milk just fine for many years - less so now that I was abstinent for well over a decade - I was never aber to stomach it as an addition to tea or coffee. Turns two delicious beverages into a vile concoction seriously close to triggering vomiting.
Er, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but we’re mammals, and the key thing about mammals, our defining feature in fact, is that we produce and drink milk.
Yes, milk from other mammals doesn’t contain everything that a human needs, in the way that mothers milk does, but it does contain most of it. In fact, if you were going to pick just one food to eat, milk is the one that would keep you alive longest. Goats milk is a bit better for you than cow, but quite frankly it tastes like pish, so I’ll stick to moo juice thank you very much.
(Presumably pig milk is closer to human, and chimp or gorilla milk would be better again, but for some reason we don’t drink these animal’s milk).
You could survive indefinitely on human milk, but as an adult that would be pretty weird, and you’d probably require multiple women to get enough milk, and what are they going to eat? Also, from what I’ve heard, most adults don’t like the taste. (It’s also terrible in tea, according to a friend who really wanted a proper cuppa, but lived too far from the shops.)
When we moved, I found two vials of breast milk buried in the bottom of the freezer, about ten years old. Had them in coffee. Still good. I know because of the new third arm growing out of my neck.
People can’t go to the stores and buy 1965 lab Gatorade. The health value of “the original stuff” doesn’t have any effect on what Pepsi sells now.
The point was never that salt and potassium in water isn’t beneficial, it’s that Pepsi markets Gatorade as the best way to get that salt and potassium, and it’s almost always the worst when there are any other choices, including milk and anything with lemons in it.
It’s corporate myth-making in the service of selling product in place of actual science.
“And I bet that’s why W. C. Fields also said not to believe every quote attribution on the Internet.”
- Gandhi
(To be absolutely clear, W.C. Fields didn’t say that, people just wish he did, much the same way as people wishing that sports drinks might make them somehow “athletic” like Michael Jordan)
I remember riding RAGBRAI in 2012. The temperature for the first four days was in the 101-110 degree F range, and we were suffering. We came across a dairy truck that was handing out ice-cold pints of chocolate milk. Despite my experience with fancy restaurants and very nice wines, I can’t remember ever consuming anything that brought me as much relief and joy as that pint of chocolate milk.
