The only thing when you were heat up or exhausted after working out, and lots of sweat is to drink something that can refresh your body and regain your energy. Isotonic drink is still an option. Is it true this beverage can rejuvenate and regain your energy?

Here is a program to regain your energy back and completely eliminate your exhausted, not only will improve your health, also boost your immune system:

End Tiredness Program

Water formed to 60-70% of water in your body. Part of this water is exhaust through perspiration, fasces, urine and respiration. Consequently, water that has exhausted should be replacing continuously. Lacking of fluid will cause metabolism in body. Average adult people require 2, 5 liter per day, the quantity increased during exerciser. In normal conditions, consuming water and foods containing high fluid is sufficient to replace the exhausted fluids. It’s a different story if your body dehydrates and extracts excessive fluids. Dehydrate occur when high temperature to body applied, sweating in excessive, or diarrhea. The body not only looses many fluids, also important electrolyte such as chloride, calcium, magnesium, sodium and kalium. It is proven in research that 1 % dehydration are already making big changes in body temperature. Meanwhile 2 % dehydration can decreased the endurance down to one third. Loosing more than 2 % of fluids it is not sufficient by replacing with water. Since adding water will only dissolve the electrolyte and will intervene the functions of those electrolyte with the effect to water poison and harmful to your body.

Electrolyte is a mineral in blood and fluids in your body with carrying potentials electric quantum. It is important to balance the electrolyte in the body having the impact to quantity of water in the body, blood pH, muscle activity and much other important process.

The quantity of brand isotonic drink in the market reflects the enthusiasm of people to this kind of drink. These drinks not only to prevent dehydration for athletes, also is used by ordinary people, from kids, teenager until elderly peoples. Actually is it safe to drink this kind of isotonic drink?

Not an Energy Drink

The idea of isotonic drink came from the usage of hospital using infuse to patient that have problems in consuming foods and or drinks through mouth. The content is mixture of water and glucose with addition vitamin and mineral.

Isotonic drink and energy drink actually is a two different things, although the two are so called for sport drinks. Isotonic drinks are made without caffeine and similar to fluids used by infuse in hospital to prevent dehydration. While energy drink on the contrary can cause dehydration which contains caffeine. Caffeine are stimulant can caused the energy to boost instant and having the diuretic symptoms. Therefore isotonic is more accurate to call as sports drinks.

Sports drinks are beverage that can dehydrate and at the same time replace electrolyte, carbohydrate, and other enzyme nutritious that exhaust with sweat after exercise or work out. Lacking electrolyte can caused the muscles contractions and impacting to cramp.

Lacking carbohydrate can decreased the fuel in body to muscles and source of energy is to efficient using less O2 compare to protein or fat.

During work out, the muscles will take glucose from the storage of liver. Consuming carbohydrate before and after work out can prevent the blood level to decrease and sustaining the glycogen in body. Heavy training can decreased 3 - 4 gram sugar in 1 minute. Recovery of muscle and glycogen storage in liver recuperates within 24 - 48 hours.

To obtain energy it’s not sufficient from fuel only. Many elements required such as vitamin C and vitamin B in energy drinks in markets containing caffeine than carbohydrate. Caffeine is not energy it is stimulant to boost energy. If people are sayings that energy drink can prevent from sleepy, that is caffeine.

Choose the Right Thing

A fluid can be called isotonic if it contains carbohydrate and electrolyte(i.e. Natrium, Calcium, Magnesium, Cilium, Chloride) with concentration 6 - 8 %.This concentrations having Osmolarity or degree of rheology close to serum(the fluids in blood concentrations).These concentrations like this needed to accelerate the process of  absorptions from stomach to intestine. Beside the above factors, an isotonic drink should also have the criteria, not preservatives, caffeine, etc. Other isotonic drink adding to C vitamin, and B Vitamin with the considerations that those additional vitamins required by body that has lost energy or fluids during work out or daily activity, it is acceptable as long the measurement is balance and not overwhelming.

Energy Drinks, OR Isotonic Drinks?

Not Over Consumed

Isotonic drink is to be considered safe as long as it balance, good for people who like to work out or exercise, with exercise to 90 minutes and the glucose and electrolyte extract from body. Drink a quarter of water every 15 minutes exercise and after. Giving isotonic to sick people and toddlers should be consulted to doctor first.

Source: Nirmala Magazine, ed. Feb 2009