BRAWNDO!!! IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE! ELECTROLYTES!
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.
IIRC you’re supposed to drink until you urinate in order to confirm proper hydration. Drinking milk until I pee sounds tough.
Only the strongest wills club.
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.
So they’re telling us you need longer to digest things which aren’t pure water - a shocking result! But I strongly doubt that running on a hot day while drinking milk is a good idea
I don’t think digesting and water absorption are the same thing. Hydration is absorbing the water and digestion is processing what’s left besides the water.
My husband and I were having lunch in a diner last weekend and by the bar they had a display cooler selling Smart Water. I over heard the lady next table over tell her friend: “oh I need to get some of that before we go. ITS GOT ELECTROLYTES!” she said, unironically. I nearly choked on my lunch. Lol
Save water, drink beer!
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Can I get in on that?
results like this, always makes me think, who paid for the study?
RJM is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the European Hydration Institute. PW has received funding in the last 3 y from the European Hydration Institute for other hydration-related research. None of the other authors reported a conflict of interest related to the study.
Could not find much more information on this institute. It ran an introduction to a conference in a supplement to a trusted, peer-reviewed journal but supplements have a general reputation of being advertisements.
Yeah, nothing I crave more after running 5k than a tall glass of… milk? 🤮
Honestly maybe not after a long run but sometimes when I’m really dehydrated I legit crave milk
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.
When I was doing long distance runs, there was nothing more I wanted afterwards than some chocolate milk
But water does hydrate you, and its free/cheaper than anything else.
2/3 of the world is lactose intolerant so milk can’t be the best for hydration
When it comes to alcohol, stronger forms, like whiskey, for example, actually dehydrate, while beer shows better results.
I’m replacing water with beer the next time I run a marathon.
/this was a joke. i don’t run
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.
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.
I’ve had to restrain myself from drinking a couple of liters of milk on hot days because I’m pretty sure it was helping me get fat. There’s a pile of sugar in milk, but damn, it seemed to be the best for quenching thirst. I really like milk and miss it.
I’m an adult, always enjoyed milk but not much beyond a bowl of cereal or a glass (possibly chocolate) in a day. Don’t have it overly often most of the time but even if I do it’s not a lot. Still feels satisfying to have in my 40s. Of course I may be considered weird for other reasons by many but didn’t think the milk consumption factored in heh.
Edit thought I’d add, has at least protein in it so there are worse things to have with more sugars, though yes know lactase breaks down to carbs (or something similar I may have forgotten the name)
BRAWNDO!!! IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE! ELECTROLYTES!
Hahahaha!! I love that movie!!!
We don’t have time for handjobs.
But tap water has electrolytes, right? That’s why we get electrocuted.
100% pure water does not conduct electricity, but who uses that?
Tap water has too few electrolytes to restore your electrolytic balance after losing water (via sweating or urination). But yeah, it does technically contain electrolytes.
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.
Milk? Fucking mlk??? The drink of psychopaths and weird kids at school? I’d rather shrivel up and die looking like a pice of beef jerky than hydrate with mlk
