WEBVTT - How proper hydration transforms your body 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.120 Welcome to your new day. This is Early Breakfast with 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.160 Africa Milani. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.400 Let's talk fitness. Now. It's seventeen minutes two five o'clock. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.320 The CEO of Revive, Mark Myerson, joins me via zoom. Now. Mark, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:13.920 a very good morning and welcome to the show. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.040 Good morning Africa. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:22.160 Let's talk about proper hydration and how it's important not 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.200 only in fitness, but i'd argue more generally in management 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.120 of one's body. What is hydration and what are some 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.080 of the more common myths that people still believe about it. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.920 I think cardration has changed a lot in the last 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.760 ten years, and it used to be something that people 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.479 considered only when they had diarrhea or when they were 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.599 an endurance athlete. And as you say, hydration is now 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.680 much more of a lifestyle thing. And people appreciate that 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.320 water alone is not what your body is made of. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.920 Your body is made of a lot of salt. You know, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.360 if you lick your sweat and if you taste blood, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:06.720 it's really salty. And so people understand that drinking water alone, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.160 your body needs much more than that. And these minerals 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:15.080 that conduct electricity, sodium, potassium, magnesium are really important to 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.680 the functioning of your body and your brain. And I 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.679 think that's the appreciation, is that if you are underhydrated 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.840 and you're only drinking water without the minerals, you're not 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.160 able to optimize your body's function and your performance. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.120 And I suppose that's a key point, right because the 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.360 minute one uses the word hydration, literally, the first thing 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.240 that comes to mind is, let me get a glass 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.280 of water and quench my thirst, because my body is 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.080 in desperate need of that. What you're saying, when it 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.840 comes to hydration, particularly around fitness, we require more than 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:47.680 just a glass of water. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.920 Absolutely, there's nothing wrong with water, of course, but we 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.120 must remember that the minerals that our body needs would 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.280 come generally from food and from adding salt, so it 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 doesn't need to be timed exactly with the water. But 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.600 when your body loses water, it's also losing minerals, and 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.080 to replace that properly, you need the minerals with the water. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.280 And so there's an appreciation that when you drink electrolytes 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.560 with your water, you're getting the best performance out of 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.080 your body. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.600 The formulation then of those electrolytes becomes critical, doesn't it. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:24.280 Exactly. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.160 Let's talk about what needs to be included or. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:33.680 Not, yes, exactly. The knot is also important. I think 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.120 if we go back to the classic oral rehydration therapy 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.000 and how that came about to be a medical grade intervention. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:49.160 When people had cholera, especially in the last century, there 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.760 were a lot of kids that died of cholera, but 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.239 they died really of dehydration. And in the nineteen hundreds 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.760 the science evolved to where there was an understanding that 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.839 if you drank water with salt and sugar, you could 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.679 prevent death. And this simple formulation is actually a medical 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.400 grade kind of thing that has saved millions and millions 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.520 of lives over the last hundred, one hundred and fifty years. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.480 And so there's an understanding that water alone is not enough, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.160 especially in the context of dehydration. You know, if you 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.120 go to hospital and you're dehydrated, they don't put water 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.760 into your mouth, They put saline solution directly into your veins, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.280 and saline is salt water. So you know, when one 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.720 considers these things, I think it's easy to appreciate that 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.120 one's body needs more than just the water, and so 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.520 the formulation has to have salt, and salt is sodium chloride. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.360 You need both the sodium and the chloride, and the 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:56.520 modern hydration has usually potassium as well, and magnesium is 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.640 another important mineral that is often included in the formulation. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.920 So with Revive we try and have the right ratio 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.640 of the right minerals. We try and have a clean salt. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.160 We're very proud of our relationship with our ex desert 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.200 salt because the sodium comes from our amazing you know, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:19.120 African desert and it's not tainted with processing. It doesn't 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.800 have additives like anti caking agents, it doesn't have coloring. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.039 We leave out the sugar and we use stevia, which 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.240 is a cleaner sweetener if I can and say that 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.719 with no calories. So it's also what you don't put 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:39.279 in the formulation that is imortant, as you alluded to. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:45.080 Absolutely why or let me ask this question differently, right though? 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.560 What impact then does proper hydration have? One on energy, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.560 but more importantly on performance because this is a sickness 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.440 related feature and people will be going out either go 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.560 on a run or cycle or yoga for that matter. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.000 What will have what will have in proper hydration means 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.200 for them? 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.600 I think the modern appreciation and the science of hydration 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.600 is teaching people that you don't have to be clinically 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:18.080 hydrated to suffer from underperformance. You just need to be 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.400 mildly under hydrated, and your performance starts to suffer and 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.799 your body doesn't work in an optimum way. So there's 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.560 this new appreciation that you need to be having hydration 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.520 all the time. As soon as you lose, you need 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.640 to replace, and you shouldn't wait until you're feeling terrible 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.320 and you're confused and you're actually getting dehydrated. When you 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.520 start to think about this, you're thinking about it all 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.800 the time, and you're thinking about it in much smaller quantities. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.120 You know, small differences in hydration make massive difference to 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.960 your performance. There's also an appreciation that your brain is 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.440 of course, the nerves in your brain need electricity to 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.679 fire and elect lights. Your brain is an electrical organ 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.559 and so often the underperformance is in a cognitive sense. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:15.160 It's concentration, its coordination, it's accuracy, it's speed, and so 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.840 there's all these these nuances around hydration that people are 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.239 now understanding. The energy is interesting because you know, energy 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.800 in the classic sense means fuel. It's like petrol, for 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.400 your car and in your body that is glucose and fat, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.560 but there are also other mechanisms for energy creation and 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.880 using the car analogy like the spark plug and the 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.960 electrical wiring. It's all very well having fuel, but if 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.120 the sparks are not coming and the electrical system isn't working, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.520 then your car isn't going anywhere. And it's a sort 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.200 of similar analogy with your body. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.800 How often should one take hydration sessions like revives. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.719 Afrika. If one is living a healthy lifestyle, which means, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.400 you know, eating a low sugar diet, whole food diet, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.240 not a lot of processed food, then one sache a 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.440 day with a nice amount of water is generally enough 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.960 to maintain hydration and also give you the magnesium that 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.520 most people are deficient. And if one is in a 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.800 sporting context, then it's different because you're sweating more, you're 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.680 losing more electrolytes, and then you can take a second 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.760 sashe a day, but it depends how long you're exercising, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.880 and then there are other contexts. You know, a heavy 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.040 night out also means you're dehydrated, and people are taking 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.840 it for that. Breastfeeding moms, cancer patients, people with low 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.360 blood pressure. So there's all these different situations where hydration 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.119 becomes really important to think about. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.640 Dennis, not sorry, not Dennis, but Dennis waiting for me 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.160 on the line. But Mark, I'm going to be directing 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:57.480 our listeners to your website get Revive, dot co, dot za. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.040 We've spoken about sachet is of course, what is available? 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.800 Do you want to expand more on the product that 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.440 you've got. We had a lovely box as a team 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.320 from you and your team this morning, which you appreciate 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:09.880 very much. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.520 Really it's a pleasure the product we offer. We only 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.680 do one formulation. I think a lot of supplement companies 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.040 you want more and more products to sell more things 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.440 to people, but we don't believe that that's necessary. People 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.920 should eat real food and supplement only when necessary. So 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.120 our product comes in different flavors. The variety of flavors 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.920 is also important because if something doesn't taste good, people 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.760 won't use it. The trick is trying to get to 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.560 taste good, but not using flavors that are artificial or 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.240 have harmful additives in them. And flavors are interesting because 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.440 people differ wildly. You know, some people love watermelon, another 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.480 person will hate watermelon. Blood orange is probably the most 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.240 popular flavor. And then we have our raw, which is 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.319 the very clean doesn't taste great, but it's just pure 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.560 electrolytes with no flavor and no sweetness at all for 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.120 the sort of hardcore health person that doesn't want any 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.240 additives at all. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.440 And of course you can get all sorts of wonderful 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.839 water bottles that come with that as well. Mark, thank 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.040 you very much for your time this morning. Mark Maison 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.559 is the CEO of Revive, talking to us about why 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:27.040 proper hydration is important and could Chlo transform your body. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.080 You can go to get revived, dot co, dot sor 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.679 ay for more details on the product.