Trickle Down Episode 12: The Elixir of Life Part 2
Added 2023-12-19 18:37:04 +0000 UTCPart 2 of our exploration of how Gatorade influenced the science of hydration. In this episode Travis talks about how the Army developed bad doctrine around hydrating soldiers while preparing for war in the Middle East, how Gatorade helped finance athletic organizations, and why dangers related to overhydration were ignored in the 90s.
Also at one point Jake launches into an ad for Carpi Sun for some reason.
REFERENCES
Georgia Teen Dies From Drinking Too Much Water, Gatorade
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-teen-dies-from-drinking-too-much-water-gatorade/
Rovell, Darren. First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon (2005)
Noakes, Timothy. Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (2012)
Water as a Tactical Weapon: A Doctrine for Preventing Heat Casualties
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA113477.pdf
ACSM Position Stand: Exercise and Fluid Replacement
National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Statement: Fluid Replacement for Athletes
https://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/FluidReplacementsForAthletes.pdf
Updated Fluid Recommendation: Position Statement From the International Marathon Medical Directors Association (IMMDA)
http://immda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Spring-2006-Updated-Fluid-Recommendations.pdf
Gatorade demand high in war zones, squeezing supply
Water Intoxication—Considerations for Patients, Athletes and Physicians
Drinking policies and exercise-associated hyponatraemia: is anyone still promoting overdrinking?
Case proven: exercise associated hyponatraemia is due to overdrinking. So why did it take 20 years before the original evidence was accepted?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564296/#ref16
“Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.” Really? Is there scientific evidence for “8 × 8”?
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.00365.2002
British Medical Journal: The Truth About Sports Drinks
https://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/187587?path=/bmj/345/7866/Feature.full.pdf
The sensitivity of the human thirst response to changes in plasma osmolality: a systematic review
https://ke.army.mil/bordeninstitute/other_pub/hydrationpdf.pdf
Comments
Gatorade Water is available in supermarkets!
Matthew Bluth
2024-03-09 21:30:30 +0000 UTCDoes anyone remember the Gatorade commercial featuring one of the Toronto Raptors players squaring off against a literal raptor and both quenching their thirst with the neon-colored drink?
Diary of Doom
2024-01-17 18:08:49 +0000 UTCPeople aren’t drinking enough piss? Oh they will be… they will be…
Diary of Doom
2024-01-17 16:35:53 +0000 UTC"You get some of the water you need from the foods you eat" and the similar advice that's now popular, "you don't need a multivitamin because you get the vitamins you need from your food," seem kind of ridiculous to me. If your diet is ideally balanced, sure, both of those are true. That's the point of a balanced diet, after all. But I very much doubt most people eat a balanced diet. I certainly don't! Most of what I eat in an average day is just various forms of bread. The low quality of the cheap foods available to people who have neither money nor time is a known issue. Food deserts are also an issue. It's almost, kind of, like the "COVID deaths with complications from preexisting health problems shouldn't be counted as COVID deaths" thing, in the sense that people who have preexisting health problems are the majority, not a minority of special cases, and bad diet is also a majority.
Vaz
2024-01-06 04:13:06 +0000 UTCOh, and a clif bar or similar every hour or two (but only when doing extreme hikes.
Jon Adams
2023-12-31 17:17:33 +0000 UTCIt’s what plants crave!
Behold a Pale Whore
2023-12-24 11:48:42 +0000 UTCI'd just like to say to Jake, cucumber lime gatorade us the best gatorade, ignore the haters, you're right, I will continue to buy from this evil brand until they discontinue it.
Madeleine Winters
2023-12-23 04:55:30 +0000 UTCI'm just shocked that Idiocracy and Brawndo were never mentioned in one of these episodes 😅 It has electrolytes!
Caleb Showalter
2023-12-22 14:04:30 +0000 UTC
