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Also mitigated many millions of hangovers, including my own. Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration.
they sell sugar free sports drinks
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gatorade has a entire line of drinks for different purposes. Zero is what OP is looking for: https://performancepartner.gatorade.com/content/products/hyd... The normal one is for high powered endurance activities and contains some carbs (sugar) to help fuel you through them. They have one with even more carbs, sodium and potassium for people running marathons. The last two on that chart aren't a good choice for someo…
Propel and Zero (the first options) both contain sucralose, aka Splenda - I'd prefer to just drink salt water personally, or take the hit on a tablespoon of sugar mixed in and walk it off.
So I had cholera. I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, cholera is a piece of cake if treated with hydration.
Whoa! I didn't know you could do such studies on humans this day and age. Were you compensated handsomely?
So I had cholera. I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, cholera is a piece of cake if treated with hydration.
Whoa! I didn't know you could do such studies on humans this day and age. Were you compensated handsomely?
for a few moments I was thinking "saved millions of dollars from dehydration". The title could be clearer if it said "saved millions of people from dehydration".
Also mitigated many millions of hangovers, including my own. Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-FCH-CAH-06.1
Just 4 ingredients:
Glucose, anhydrous (dextrose)
Sodium chloride (salt)
Potassium chloride
Trisodium citrate, dihydrate
Of course, the batch size of 75 kg may not be the most convenient for home use, but it's easy to scale down.
Regarding the dehydration work see: > Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a type of fluid replacement used to prevent and treat dehydration, especially due to diarrhea.[1] It involves drinking water with modest amounts of sugar and salts, specifically sodium and potassium.[1] Oral rehydration therapy can also be given by a nasogastric tube.[1] Therapy can include the use of zinc supplements to reduce the duration of di…
I wonder how much one informed the other.
Regarding the dehydration work see: > Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a type of fluid replacement used to prevent and treat dehydration, especially due to diarrhea.[1] It involves drinking water with modest amounts of sugar and salts, specifically sodium and potassium.[1] Oral rehydration therapy can also be given by a nasogastric tube.[1] Therapy can include the use of zinc supplements to reduce the duration of di…
ORT seems to have been developed in the mid 1960s, around the same time as Gatorade. I wonder how much one informed the other.
Also mitigated many millions of hangovers, including my own. Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration.