Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

[mrjamegumb@lemmy.world]

BRAWNDO!!! IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE! ELECTROLYTES!

[kintarian@lemmy.world]

When it comes to alcohol, stronger forms, like whiskey, for example, actually dehydrate, while beer shows better results.

So, drink beer with my whiskey. Got it.

[athairmor@lemmy.world]

Yeah, nothing I crave more after running 5k than a tall glass of… milk? 🤮

[notnow@lemmy.world]

Save water, drink beer!

[ryktes@lemmy.world]

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.

[dastanktal@lemmy.ml]

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

[satyrsack@lemmy.sdf.org]

If I remember correctly, this type of study is inherently flawed because it just measures how long fluids stay in your body before you urinate, which is a useless metric. There is no benefit to a fluid staying in your system for a longer amount of time than the equivalent amount of a different fluid. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Milk was a baad choice

[60d@lemmy.ca]

IIRC you're supposed to drink until you urinate in order to confirm proper hydration. Drinking milk until I pee sounds tough.

[huxley75@lemmy.world]

I do actually love cold buttermilk on a hot day

[chaosinstructor@lemmy.world]

results like this, always makes me think, who paid for the study?

[kambusha@sh.itjust.works]

It's so.. hot

[skrlet13@feddit.cl]

But tap water has electrolytes, right? That's why we get electrocuted.

100% pure water does not conduct electricity, but who uses that?

[aatube@kbin.melroy.org]

article links to a yahoo version of 2019 CNN which links to a 2016 study with a URL resulting in a redirect to the new standalone website for the journal now-declared-independence instead of a DOI I had to rescue from the archives which now links to the ScienceDirect hosting of the article instead: https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.114769 (Thankfully open (archive) access)

In summary, the present study describes a novel tool to enable the objective assessment of the effectiveness of beverages to maintain hydration status. The BHI is reproducible and the pattern of response for a range of commonly consumed beverages is consistent with what is known about the effects of their constituents on water balance.

[notsteve_@lemmy.ca]

Honestly maybe not after a long run but sometimes when I’m really dehydrated I legit crave milk

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

ITT: hYdRaTe WiTh MiLk!?

Isn't milk more "liquid food" than a drink? It's meant to provide full nutrition to young, not provide fluids to an adult. Humans drinking milk in adulthood is the weird part.

[thatsthecatch@lemmy.nz]

When I was doing long distance runs, there was nothing more I wanted afterwards than some chocolate milk

[cubitoom@infosec.pub]

[adespoton@lemmy.ca]

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.

[windex007@lemmy.world]

Yeah why can't they drink something less weird for an adult human... Something full of high fructose corn syrup, taurine, and Orange #6... The way God intended. It's in the fucking Bible, people.