Electrolytes

[macphanatic]

Liquid IV? I like it better than Nuun.

[special]

Speedy wrote:
Food. Unless you are training for a marathon you don’t need added electrolytes. Or if you work outside in a southern state that has made it illegal to have mandatory breaks.

Understood, but for some reason wife said she felt so much better after drinking Gatorade a few days ago when we were travelling. Maybe there are cases where people need extra electrolytes. So why not give it a try for a few weeks to see if the improvement is sustained or if this was just a coincidence.

[macphanatic]

special wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Food. Unless you are training for a marathon you don’t need added electrolytes. Or if you work outside in a southern state that has made it illegal to have mandatory breaks.

Understood, but for some reason wife said she felt so much better after drinking Gatorade a few days ago when we were travelling. Maybe there are cases where people need extra electrolytes. So why not give it a try for a few weeks to see if the improvement is sustained or if this was just a coincidence.
Try the new Gatorade in the square bottles. I think it's better than the original.

[Speedy]

special wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Food. Unless you are training for a marathon you don’t need added electrolytes. Or if you work outside in a southern state that has made it illegal to have mandatory breaks.

Understood, but for some reason wife said she felt so much better after drinking Gatorade a few days ago when we were travelling. Maybe there are cases where people need extra electrolytes. So why not give it a try for a few weeks to see if the improvement is sustained or if this was just a coincidence.
Quite possibly she has gotten a bit dehydrated which is easy to do when traveling.

[Racer X]

coconut water straight from a clean coconut is sterile. They used it in the Pacific theater in WW II instead of saline drips when it wasn't available. Pop got a load of it once.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....lyte.......it.........up.....

[Speedy]

https://www.medscape.co.uk/s/viewarticle...24a1000bzm

Energy Drinks: Are They Worth the Heart Risk?

Maria Weiß | 27 June 2024
Energy drinks might be involved in sudden cardiac arrest in young people. According to a US study, 5% of all survived cardiac arrests were associated with the consumption of these stimulant beverages.

Energy drinks are particularly popular among young adults, typically containing 80 to 300 mg of caffeine per serving (for comparison, a cup of filter coffee has about 100 mg). They also typically include ingredients like taurine and guarana. The interactions between these ingredients and caffeine, which can affect heart rhythm, are not well understood. Individuals with a genetic predisposition to ventricular arrhythmias might be particularly vulnerable.

Katherine A. Martinez from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, US, and her team analysed data from 5000 patients treated for arrhythmias at Mayo Clinic’s Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic between 2000 and 2023. Among these patients, 144 had survived sudden cardiac arrest. In 7 of these cases (5%), medical records indicated that the patients had consumed energy drinks shortly before their cardiac arrest.

[macphanatic]

Speedy wrote:
https://www.medscape.co.uk/s/viewarticle...24a1000bzm

Energy Drinks: Are They Worth the Heart Risk?

Maria Weiß | 27 June 2024
Energy drinks might be involved in sudden cardiac arrest in young people. According to a US study, 5% of all survived cardiac arrests were associated with the consumption of these stimulant beverages.

Energy drinks are particularly popular among young adults, typically containing 80 to 300 mg of caffeine per serving (for comparison, a cup of filter coffee has about 100 mg). They also typically include ingredients like taurine and guarana. The interactions between these ingredients and caffeine, which can affect heart rhythm, are not well understood. Individuals with a genetic predisposition to ventricular arrhythmias might be particularly vulnerable.

Katherine A. Martinez from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, US, and her team analysed data from 5000 patients treated for arrhythmias at Mayo Clinic’s Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic between 2000 and 2023. Among these patients, 144 had survived sudden cardiac arrest. In 7 of these cases (5%), medical records indicated that the patients had consumed energy drinks shortly before their cardiac arrest.

We're talking drinks with electrolytes, not energy drinks.

[special]

Exactly. I like my caffeine as coffee.

[RAMd®d]

We're talking drinks with electrolytes, not energy drinks.


The two are often conflated, since there are drinks that are a combination of the two.

But I like to imbibe my caffeine the way God intended — in copious quantities of Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper.

The only times I've gone for bottled electorates is during long road trips on my bike, in hot weather.

Neither caffeine nor sugar isn't really needed, and possibly not even electrolytes, but I seem to sleep better with no leg or hand cramps.

A banana shake or two sometimes helps.