Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Time to revisit ‘sports drinks’: are they REALLY the best for your performance?

Up until now, we haven’t really looked at the role of alkaline ionized water in the process of hydration in the body. Sports scientists agree that in any competitive endeavour, prehydration is as important as post-hydration. The American College of Sports Medicine has a term for it. They say that prehydration allows us to begin our exercise in what they call an euhydrated state.

Euhydration means that your body is perfectly hydrated and electrolyte levels in the blood are perfectly balanced, geared for performance at a minute’s notice.

They say that prehydration should begin

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