"Your Sports Drink may be dehydrating you" article

[oroight]

Do you have "endura" hydration formula, with mag and calcium?

[runnergirl]

I have to say the the combative tone of the article is highly off-putting, I think the author would reach more people with a calm, reasoned argument. I agree gatorade is not great for endurance sports, it's just too sweet, and there's not enough sodium.

Pedialyte is too expensive though, I use the Clif electrolyte replacement (lemonade flavor), it's got a ton of potassium and sodium and isn't so sickeningly sweet. It's also organic, and at $15 for a giant canister of powder is much more reasonable than some of the other powders out there.

[Technotart]

The store brands of pedialyte are MUCH cheaper - a couple of bucks. They are the same as the pedialyte though.

[SimpleCycle]

Does pedialyte come in a powdered form, or do you have to buy the pre-mixed kind?

E-caps makes a straight electrolyte replacement called Endurolytes. You can take them as capsules or mix the powedered form into your water, although the end result tastes like salt water.

My question is, if you can only consume x grams of carbohydrate without dehydrating yourself, how do you keep yourself from bonking? On long rides, you need both sufficient hydration and nutrition. No matter what, you're going to increase the concentration of carbohydrate in your stomach at some point, and will need water to digest that. It's unavoidable. I wish he's explained a little more about how the maltodextrin figures into the equation.

A friend of mine got hyponatremia drinking Powerade on a hike of the grand canyon. The ER doc said they've taken to calling it "Powerade syndrome" because Powerade has so little sodium - less than half that in Gatorade. It never occurred to me that even in the commercial grocery store drinks, there can be a substantial difference.

[bikerchick68]

hmmmm... that's pretty interesting... gonna have to look into it more...

I currently use Cytomax... haven't compared it to gatorade but gatorade makes me sick to my stomach when riding so either way that's out for me... Cytomax isn't as icky sweet, comes in powder and seems to work really well, at least for me.

my bro did a double century a couple weeks ago and used e-caps... first time he used 'em but he swears he could tell the difference and benefit from them!

[Technotart]

It isnt the carbs so much - you can have carbs in your fluid. The problem is the lack of sodium in the stuff we drink. We should all mass email gatorade and tell them to make a REAL sports drink....

[snapdragen]

Most of the people I know that use Gatorade add their own salt to the bottle. I've not found any other sport drink besides G that I can stomach.

I've used the e-caps - they rock!