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Season 2, Ep. 14: Gut Training for Endurance Athletes with Patrick Wilson

Endurance Unlimited

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How to Choose the Right Beverage for Your Needs

Beverage concentration and beverage osmolality, that does become important particularly like immediately before enduring exercise itself. Once the beverage starts to get into the small intestine, if it's very concentrated or again and has a very high osmolability, what will typically happen is there's going to be some fluid that comes from your blood pulled out of you. So when you're looking to facilitate the fastest absorption as possible, you probably don't want something super super concentrated in terms of a beverage. If you're just sipping on a like a hyper tonic beverage, you know, you may or may not have problems. But that's your main beverage source, like that's all

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