replenish electrolytes easily

Do you ever feel sluggish in the hours after a rigorous workout, or after a night out on the town? If so, there may be more than exhaustion, dehydration, or a hangover to blame. You may also suffer from an electrolyte imbalance—something you can’t cure by resting or gulping gimmicky sports drinks. This may sound like your mother speaking, but to cure an electrolyte imbalance, you need to take in the right nutrients. Vitalyte’s Electrolyte Replacement Formula has everything you need.

Great Sources of Electrolytes

Electrolytes are electrically charged minerals that are found in blood and other body fluids. When you sweat or excrete fluid in other ways, your electrolyte levels decrease. To replenish them, it’s best to ingest foods and liquids that contain a high level of magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium and other electrolytes, such as:

Spinach – Leafy green vegetables such as spinach, lettuce and kale are great sources of magnesium. They’re also low calorie, so you can eat them in large quantities without fretting about your waistline. If you’re low on magnesium, the vegetable section of your local grocer should be your next destination.

Peanut Butter – Part of peanut butter’s great taste comes from sodium. The salt it contains enhances the mellow flavor of the butter. But the sodium benefits more than your taste buds. By increasing fluid retention, it helps you recover from strenuous workouts, or lazy sauna sessions where you sweat a river.

Trail Mix – Trail mix that contains dried bananas and raisins is packed with the electrolyte potassium. Because trail mix tends to be naturally sugary, try to stick with the recommended serving size; and avoid mixes that contain fattening ingredients like candied pineapple, M&Ms and yogurt-covered anything.

Milk – The American diet is heavy on dairy products, so most of us needn’t worry about getting enough calcium. If dairy products agree with your digestive system, then have fun chowing down on a round of baked Brie or an aged slice of Roquefort. The French diet is heavy on dairy products, too.

Vitalyte – Vitalyte electrolyte replacement drink is the ultimate solution for curing an electrolyte imbalance fast. Ideal for people who have food sensitivities, or who need a convenient solution for electrolyte replacement, Vitalyte contains delicious natural ingredients, and has less sugar than competing brands.

Maintaining a Healthy Balance

Health experts recommend maintaining an electrolyte-rich diet to keep your electrolyte levels high. But if you routinely perform strenuous exercise or engage in other strenuous activities, you may need an extra infusion of electrolytes to stay healthy. Vitalyte electrolyte replacement drink is a great solution.

Vitalyte is also a great option for lactose intolerant individuals, who can’t get their supply of calcium from dairy products, and people with food allergies that prevent them from eating electrolyte rich fruits or vegetables. Regardless of why you need an electrolyte boost, delicious Vitalyte drink mix is a healthy way to get it. Try our delicious Electrolyte Replacement Formula today.

Remember the old V-8 commercials, where people who didn’t get their proper nutrition walked around on a slant, while everyone else stood up straight? Not getting your Vitamin C isn’t the only thing that can make you feel like those people looked. Receiving low doses of electrolytes can throw you off balance, too.

The Importance of Electrolytes

Electrolytes are electrically charged minerals that are found in blood and other body fluids. You probably know lots of them by name, such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and sodium. Responsible for important body processes such as water retention, muscle function, and the maintenance of blood acidity, electrolytes are excreted in sweat, and need to be replaced as they exit the body.

This means that after you finish a hard work out, dance for hours on Friday night, or spend Saturday evening processing beer into bodily waste, you need to flood your blood with electrolytes. Otherwise, you could end up feeling sluggish, achy, dizzy, and nauseous – and that’s just the beginning. If an electrolyte imbalance becomes severe, a person can experience mental changes and a rapid heartbeat, and need to be hospitalized.

That’s no way to leave the gym, much less a happening dance club.

Maintaining a Healthy Balance

Maintaining a healthy balance of electrolytes can be done in two ways: eating foods that are flush with the minerals, and ingesting a formula that provides a full burst of electrolytes when you need them most. Ideally, you should eat an electrolyte rich diet, and use special formulas like the ones available from Vitalyte when you need an extra infusion of electrolytes, which may be every day.

Eating vegetables such as corn, carrots, green beans, fruits such as dark berries, and dairy products such as milk and cheese is a great way to keep your blood stocked with electrolytes. But you may need an extra boost of the minerals if you’re someone who regularly works, plays, or exercises in a way that makes you loose lots of fluid in a short period of time, such as a:

· Construction worker

· Long distance runner

· Frequent club goer

· Daily beach goer

Even an activity like sitting in the sauna at your health club could make you a candidate for one of Vitalyte’s specially formulated electrolyte drinks.

The Bottom Line

Like many health problems, electrolyte imbalance begins as a minor malady, but can quickly become serious if you leave it unaddressed. Remember, if you participate in any work of leisure activity that makes you loose lots of fluids—even if it’s just sitting on your duff and sipping micro brews—you need to replenish your electrolyte count to avoid health complications that could spiral out of control.

For most people, the easiest way to replace electrolytes is to mix up a serving of Vitalyte Electrolyte Replacement Formula. With tasty flavors like Grape, Zesty Orange and Fruit Punch to choose from; and a list of ingredients that doesn’t begin with sugar, Vitalyte is a great supplement for the health conscious. Shop for Vitalyte today!

1. Squeezits:

I know these take you back to yesteryear but let’s be smart about this. Remember that sticky/tangy feeling on your tongue afteryou popped the top off one of these? Well - there’s a reason for it.

Ingredients: Contains 11% of Fruit Juice, Cherry(ies) Chucklin Juice (What on earth is this?):, Water, Corn Syrup High Fructose (note the re arranged to fool the simple-minded consumer), Pear(s) Juice From Concentrate, Malic Acid (yum), Citric Acid (yum), Potassium Sorbate (Preservative) , Red 40 (how fun- they put red in here- what color was it before), Flavor(s) Artificial (what are we speaking Spanish with the adjective after the noun?), Berry B. Wild Juice :, Water, Corn Syrup High Fructose (again), Pear(s) Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative) , Flavor(s) Artificial, Blue 1 (well thank god it wasn’t blue 2).

2. Kool-aid - Ohh Yeaaaaa-

Now I know the big Koolaid guy is awesome and provided some solid entertainment for we kids of the 90s buttake a look at… well, whatever the hell is in it.

Ingredients: CITRIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, RED 40.

3. Tang:

In my flagrant attempt to find the ingredients of tang, I received entirely too much information and made the executive decision to NOTenlighten you all with the boring details. The important point is this: if you don’t know what it is, it has a number on the end of it, if it takes more than 1 minute to list the ingredients…. it’s probably not great for you.

To support this theory, here are just a few of the Tang ingredients: Yellow 5, Yellow 6 (no I’m not kidding), Artificial Color, Natural Flavor, Orange Juice Solids, and Calcium Phosphate (which prevents caking).

Everyone, yourselves a favor and remember that wonderful but slightly altered quote by Mark Twain:

Ch-ch-ch chia! No, not the 90s as seen on tv phenomenon.. though that was and still is awesome.. Chia is THE ultimate super food. With more calcium than a 8oz glass of whole milk, more fiber than a bowl of bran flakes, more magnesium than whole head of broccoli, more antioxidants than a whole pomegranate, more protein than an egg, and more omega 3’s than a whole Atlantic salmon, plus many other vitamin and mineral benefits, chia is pretty much the cat’s meow. If that’s not enough for ya, Chia, when consumed, absorbs up to 10 times its weight in water allowing for a slow release of carbohydrates that have proven to increase energy outputs for hours. The Barefoot Runners of Mexico run hundreds of miles a day with chia fueling their fire.

Intrigued? You should be. And guess what? Vitalyte will be releasing two chia products in the next 6 months.

Chia really is one of the greatest superfoods on the planet and Vitalyte is one of the first companies to take it commercial with a great tasting gel and bar.

Once again, we have combined the very best in nature with the firm understanding of scientific precepts to create a freaking awesome product.

Pretty cool eh?

In about an hour I will head out for my run. Simple, average maybe even boring statement…until you know the backstory. See it’s been five months since I have been able to run and prior to that it’s been a decade of illness, personal strife and clawing myself back into the light. Between the several years of spending most of my days bedridden due to a genetic disease, financial hardship due to my health condition, a failed business and the demise of my family unit, life was challenging to say the least. Ironically, it was my belief that one day I would get healthy and be able to return to competitive athletics that kept me from wallowing in a well of depression and self-pity that I could have easily fallen victim to. I had once been one of the top-ranked distance runners in the world and I was determined to step back on the podium again!

So here I am and yep my BFF has been the eliptical trainer at World Gym in Pacific Beach, CA. We’ve had our ups and downs just as any relationship does. You know how it goes, “I’m so dedicated to you I will be here faithfully,” and of course the explanations “Well it was a holiday weekend so I had to take a little time away,” and who can leave out the “A little time apart will do us some good.” But all in all I spent an average of four days a week with my cross-training partner. Just 30 minutes a time to maintain my fitness (ummm….really my sanity because honestly who the hell can stand looking at those little flashing lights 27:12, 27:11, 27:10 for more than a half hour at a time before cocktail hour can’t come fast enough and you are using all your strength to prevent yourself from bludgeoning the guy next to you who insists on blurting out loud every word to Lady GaGa’s Born This Way!)

Yes I am VERY happy to be back on the roads!

I was, to say the least, a little sore the day after my first run. Yep walking down stairs was amusing but I thought things would be a little more trying than they were. I attribute my mini-victory to two things…

1) I used the five months to gather myself in all aspects of my life-emotional, physical, mental, financial…yep I cleaned house and over-hauled. Anything that wasn’t serving my higher good went out the window and I made room for the good things that were already in my life but were being suffocated by the lack of space.

2) Vitalyte-I faithfully used my electrolytes replacement drink, Tri-Phase endurance before my workouts and during and when it came time to hit the ground running again I had maintained my fitness and my body had a chance to recover. Honestly, those first few days back would’ve been a nightmare of epic proportion if it hadn’t been for Tri-Phase…I wasn’t crying or up pacing in the night due to lactic acid overload and muscle fatigue.

So as I get ready to head out down Harbor Drive for a little 40 minute run I think about how far I have come, in just a week and a half I am up to a 5.5 mile run. Hmmm, maybe there is something to this recovery thing after all. My mind, body and emotional self are less attached to what I can do physically and my priority lies on my entire self. It’s a lifestyle.

Follow my journey back to competitive running and join me in creating a healthy lifestyle. It’s what Vitalyte is all about, it’s what I’m all about and it’s about what’s best for you.