BRAWNDO!!! IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE! ELECTROLYTES!
Milk? Fucking mlk??? The drink of psychopaths and weird kids at school? I’d rather shrivel up and die looking like a pice of beef jerky than hydrate with mlk
2/3 of the world is lactose intolerant so milk can’t be the best for hydration
Thing is, why does it matter if something exists that hydrates you better than water? Water is abundant and practically free - at least orders of magnitude more free than any marginally better substitute. You don’t need a precise and refined strategic hydration strategy. When you get thirsty just drink some water, you’ll be fine.
edit: yes, this does not cover edge cases like illness or working under very hot conditions
It matters if you work outside in the summer months like I do. I can’t physically hydrate fast enough some days. So I end up a little worse each day of the week. Something that hydrates better starts to sound pretty good. For 99% of people? Just drink water.
Edit: I just read the article and milk is (one of) the answer(s). I tell my coworkers every year during heat illness training that if I go down and they give me milk I’m coming up swinging.
Liquid iv will keep you alive. Also salty snacks.
Just gonna pop in here to yell at the clouds. I hate the name “Liquid I.V.” for a powdered sports drink. It’s none of the things. It’s a dry-ass powder that doesn’t go in your veins. Fuck. And it’s presumably meant to evoke the emergency dehydration scenario of world-class athletes dying on the sideline, hooked up to saline drips to keep their muscles from cramping inside-out. Everything about the branding is crap.
The product itself is fine though.
INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW SOLID ORAL™ SPORTS HYDRATION
SOLUTIONDRINKTHING!“Nothing gets my head back in the game like some Solid Oral.” “I didn’t believe the hype, but my teammate gave me Solid Oral and now I won’t settle for less.”
Sells itself, it’s perfect.
Salty snacks is my go to. I don’t really like liquid IV or Gatorade etc. I’ll drink a liquid IV if it’s really hot, but I’m big on plain, flat water.
If you are dehydrated from an illness typically something Gatorade or water with a bit of salt in it will help you hydrate better then just water.
Salt AND sugar (glucose) , when both consumed at the same time, activate transport channels in the bowel that increase water uptake. Not to say you need as much sugar or salt in Gatorade, liquid IV etc.
It’s called Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) and it’s 4 cups water, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar.
My husband and I were having lunch in a diner last weekend and by the bar they had a display cooler selling Smart Water. I over heard the lady next table over tell her friend: “oh I need to get some of that before we go. ITS GOT ELECTROLYTES!” she said, unironically. I nearly choked on my lunch. Lol
BRAWNDO!!! IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE! ELECTROLYTES!
Hahahaha!! I love that movie!!!
We don’t have time for handjobs.
I remember once reading that having one beer and then changing to water would be a good rehydration strategy.
And I definitely believe it. Feels like that anyway. But.
Oh man I’d like a cold beer.
Save water, drink beer!
T-shirt from 1992
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Can I get in on that?
Yeah, nothing I crave more after running 5k than a tall glass of… milk? 🤮
Honestly maybe not after a long run but sometimes when I’m really dehydrated I legit crave milk
I regularly (weekly) run 25k runs. If I had milk afterwards, sure, I’d retain that fluid for longer, but I’d get all congested and start seeing spots in front of my eyes. I know this because I’ve involuntarily done it.
What works best is small sips of water every 2k or so after 10k, followed by a glass of water when I’m done to flush my system, followed by water with trace amounts of sugar, sodium and potassium added.
Binding water up in your stomach is totally useless for maintaining electrolyte and water levels in the body, even though it’s technically (temporarily) increasing fluid uptake.
When I was doing long distance runs, there was nothing more I wanted afterwards than some chocolate milk
results like this, always makes me think, who paid for the study?
Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that electrolytes are just as important for hydration as water. Especially if you’re doin some heavy activities and sweatin buckets. You lose so much potassium in effort sweat, and you’ll just start locking up without it.
I do actually love cold buttermilk on a hot day
Would have been nice if they had gone into further detail about what they had discovered but sure this seems kind of interesting.
Apparently the mcpoyle brothers were on to something with milk
