All About Refresh

Is Precision Blended For Peak Performance Refresh

Thirst Quencher provides important minerals and electrolytes to optimize performance and helps restore fluids and electrolytes both during and after exercise to enhance performance, recuperation and overall health. Refresh is lightly sweetened and lightly flavoured to provide easy digestion.

Contains 6% Carbohydrates, An Optimal Ratio For Energy And Fluid Replacement

REFRESH Thirst Quencher contains 6% carbohydrates to help balance energy production with fluid replacement during prolonged activity. This means that REFRESH provides both fast-acting and slow-release carbohydrates providing you with the energy you need when you need it.

Features These Working Ingredients

• Dextrose - a fast-acting carbohydrate the helps shuttle minerals to the working muscles.
• Fructose & Maltodextrin - are slow-release carbohydrates that enter the blood stream at a much lower rate than
• dextrose. These slow-release carbohydrates provide sustained energy production and stable blood sugar levels.
• Citric Acid (Citrates) - part of the Krebs Cycle (common energy pathway), provides the ability to produce more energy, thus delaying the onset of fatigue and reducing lactic acid build up.
• Potassium, Chloride & Sodium Citrate - potassium is a mineral that works with chloride and sodium to maintain the proper fluid balance within the body.
• Magnesium Citrate - magnesium is essential for converting blood sugar into energy. Magnesium also effects nerve and muscle function making it important for maintaining normal blood pressure and a healthy heart. Many people lack magnesium in their diet. Athletes have a higher demand for magnesium and it helps to prevent cramping.

Low In Sodium Compared To Other Electrolyte Replenishing Drinks

REFRESH is low in sodium and formulated with magnesium citrate, a higher cost and more effective replenishing compound. Magnesium citrate is supported by research as essential in converting blood sugar to energy. Magnesium citrate also helps in maintaining normal blood pressure and a healthy heart. Conversely, the research supporting sodium and its benefit in sports drinks is limited. In fact, too much sodium may overwhelm the body's mechanism for regulating it.

How Sodium Works In The Body

Athletes are known to suffer with swollen hands and feet from water retention due to ingestion of electrolyte products too high in sodium during prolonged exercise in the heat. The body has mechanisms in place to effectively regulate and re-circulate sodium. It has been shown that too much sodium may interfere or neutralize these mechanisms.

It is known that sweat generates large sodium loss and that rapid sodium replacement neutralizes this loss by allowing water intake to dilute sodium content. However, high sodium electrolyte supplementation also disrupts the body's natural process by producing a hormone signaling to the kidneys to stop filtering and re-circulating sodium and instead excrete it. When this happens, another hormone is produced that dominates Table Saltand causes fluid retention. As a result, you may experience puffiness and swelling because your sodium intake was too high.

The fact is that the human body only needs a small amount of sodium to function normally. Individuals require 250 mg of sodium per day. Athletes may need 500 mg. These amounts are easily supplied by natural, unprocessed foods. In fact, the average Canadian consumes approximately 6000 to 7000 mg per day.

Quite simply, an individual already has a vast supply of sodium already present in his/her body. The body also has a complex and efficient way of monitoring and re-circulating sodium back into the blood to maintain its balance. You still need to replenish sodium during exercise but it should be in amounts that cooperate with and not override these mechanisms.

The ideal approach is to ingest foods and drinks lower in sodium that cooperatively enhance the body's natural systems. When evaluating products, look for one that contains a moderate supply of sodium that supplies the necessary electrolytes but does not compromise internal regulation. REFRESH has specifically designed to work with the body in this regard.

Drink Refresh Includes Proven Ingredients

Drink Refresh only uses natural flavors and colours. We're also pleased to mention it is certified Kosher.