| Gargamel |
04-08-11 02:33 PM |
AS with any fluid loss, you should be slowly consuming the replenishers. Your body can get rid of the water faster than it can the minerals, so when you chug a bottle of 'gatorade', your body will release what it thinks is excess water, but leave the minerals behind. Then it will realize it needs that water back. Unless you're bear grylls, you're not getting it back.
The Radler probably does make you feel better overall, but the alcohol still has diuretic properties too it, and will cause you dehydrate. BUT, as has been shown in other studies, alcohol does have a lot of healthy properties to it, when consumed in moderation. The natural materials in a brewed beer would have anti-oxidants, proteins, carbs, etc. All of which help restore your body after excersize.
So from a purely dehydration point of view, Alcohol is bad, water is best. But for recovery after strenuous excersize, I can see that Radler being a fairly good drink for making you feel better overall. It may lose a few points in the dehydration end, but clearly makes up for it in other areas.
To compare Gatorade and Red bull is like comparing Apples and Volvos. Gatorade is flavored water with some added minerals, in particular sodium and potassium, which are the catalysts that make your muscles work. Red Bull is some concoction that took everything that is supposed to be good for you and went way overboard on each. There's a reason (at least in the US) the FDA recommends only so much of a certain substance. IN certain scenarios you can go over it, like Vitamin C if you have a cold, 3-4x the RDA is ok. But when you start consuming 8,000-9,000x the RDA of a substance that has been shown to cause Hepatic failure in large quantities, it's usually a bad thing. Then you have people drinking multiple cans of that a day? :timeout: Red Bull is nothing more than a well marketed liquid vitamin supplement. They taste like crap too.
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