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The Invention of Hydration

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The Science of Hydration

hydration from a sports perspective really was sort of an invented thing. The general consensus for much of the 20th century was not to drink very much, even if you were running a marathon. Gatorade gets into your system approximately 12 times faster than water. It might be more accurate to say that what Gatorade invented was the problem of dehydration.

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