RE: [Paddlewise] Hydration systems/electrolytes

Peer review by "Doctors" on a nutrition issue? Aren't you aware that medical
doctors receive only one nutrition course in med school, and are in fact,
the LAST group you would go to for nutritional advice.

If you check with any elite level cyclists or triathletes ( athletes that
engage in an aerobic sport for many hours at a time) they will tell you
without question, that water is OK for an hour, but for longer efforts, your
body loses too much glycogen and electrolyte.
The effects are too obvious to challenge. In an 80 mile bike race, a racer
on water COULD NOT COMPETE with one on a product like Twin Lab's Hydra Fuel,
or Champion Nutrition's Cytomax, or other high tech equivalent. Gatorade is
considered total garbage by any elite level cyclist or triathlete---its far
to hypertonic, so it actually draws water OUT of your cells, unless you
dilute it 50/50, and even then, it derives it carb from a dextrose type
sugar, meaning you will get an insulin spike on drinking it, and use far too
much oxygen up digesting and metabolizing it.
Kayakers will benefit from smoother energy levels and much longer endurance,
if they continue hydration every 10 minutes or so with a product like Hydra
Fuel or Cytomax.

Regards,
Dan Volker

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
[mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net]On Behalf Of Bob Denton
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 10:43 AM
To: Dickson, Dana A.; 'Jim Champoux'; Paddle~Wise
Cc: Bob Denton
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Hydration systems/electrolytes

                Maybe those peers were in Minnesota and not Florida!

                cya

                The peer reviewed medical literature on hydration supports
the use of plain
                water for maintaining hydration and rehydration.  With that,
if the use of
                sports drinks works for you, do it.

                I like the hydration system approach because I find I take
lots of small
                sips and take in more water with a hose than with a water
bottle.

                Dana
                 > -----Original Message-----
                 > From: Jim Champoux [mailto:jim_at_sigall.com]
                 > Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 9:23 AM
                 > To: Dickson, Dana A.; Paddle~Wise
                 > Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Hydration systems
                 > Importance: Low
                 >
                 >
                 > Dana wrote.....
                 >
                 > >Bob, Its hard to argue with personal experience for what

                 > makes you feel
                 > >better when you paddle.  I have tried various
electrolyte
                 > drinks and found
                 > >for me that they don't work any better than plain water.
                 >
                 > I was reading an article in some magazine about
                 > sports/electrolyte drinks
                 > and while they were proven to work minimally better than
                 > water (absorbtion,
                 > content) the bottom line was this; mix 16 oz of apple
juice
                 > with 16 oz of
                 > water add 1/3 tsp of salt and youve got your own.
                 >
                 >
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