Dehydrated? Exercise Heavily? Sweat Heavily? Work or Exercise out in the heat and sun? Sick? Taking a peptide supplement? Then you may need to replenish your electrolytes. MAKE Wellness has a product for that. It’s called, simply, HYDRATED.

HYDRATED contains Magnesium, Chloride, Sodium, Potassium, Solar Sea Sport AC, Glycine and Coconut Water. It is naturally grapefruit flavored from fruit extracts and oils. It has the best taste of any electrolyte drink I have ever tasted. It is marketed by MAKE as a peptide support supplement. It does not contain any peptides, but the makers claim that it helps the peptides in their products to be well absorbed and to function properly in the cells. Alan Jones the Director of Science at MAKE Wellness says that without proper hydration, the peptides won’t make it to their intended sites. Electrolyte balance is important for all cellular processes and an imbalance has awful effects on the body.

What are electrolytes? Electrolytes are substances that have a natural positive or negative electrical charge when dissolved in water. They help your body regulate chemical reactions, maintain the balance between fluids inside and outside your cells, and more. Electrolytes are crucial for body processes like conducting nerve impulses, contracting muscles, hydrating, and regulating pH levels. You need adequate electrolytes from your diet to keep your body healthy. The key electrolytes are Sodium, Magnesium, Potassium, Calcium, Chloride, Phosphate and Bicarbonate.

Let’s learn a bit about each of the electrolytes in HYDRATE from the information found on Cleveland Clinic’s Website:

Magnesium: Helps your cells as they turn nutrients into energy. Your brain and muscles rely heavily on magnesium to do their job. In 2018 is was estimated that 60% of adults do not achieve the average dietary intake (ADI) and 45% of Americans are magnesium deficient, a condition associated with disease states like hypertension, diabetes, and neurological disorders, to name a few.

Chloride: Chloride is, after sodium, the most abundant electrolyte in serum, with a key role in the regulation of body fluids, electrolyte balance, the preservation of electrical neutrality, acid-base status and it is an essential component for the assessment of many pathological conditions.

Sodium: plays a critical role in helping your cells maintain the right balance of fluid. It’s also used to help cells absorb nutrients

Potassium: Your cells use potassium alongside sodium. When a sodium ion enters a cell, a potassium ion leaves, and vice versa. Potassium is also especially critical to your heart function.

And now for the rest of the ingredients:

Solar Sea Sport AC: From The Great Salt Lake in Utah. Contains electrolytes. And according to Alan Jones, MAKE Wellness Director of Science, supports the function and activation of our peptides.

Glycine: an amino acid that facilitates the transport of water and electrolytes across cell membranes. According to WebMD it contributes to cellular growth and health and may also decrease oxidative stress, improve brain and muscle performance, aid in diabetes management and prevention, decrease risk of heart attack, protect liver from alcohol damage and improve sleep quality. Wow! That’s a long list of positives for one amino acid! Alan Jones says that they used glycine in place of glucose in HYDRATED to keep the same (and even better) function but without the sugar and calories.

Coconut Water: contains a high level of antioxidants and electrolytes

Steviol Glycosides Reb M: a zero calorie sweetener given GRAS (generally recognized as safe) designation by the FDA in 2008. A review in the journal Molecules in 2023 found that “active compounds isolated from Stevia rebaudiana possess interesting medicinal activities, including antidiabetic, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer, and antidiarrheal activity.”

That is a lot of science and a lot of positive benefits from the ingredients in HYDRATE! If you are taking any of the peptide containing products by MAKE Wellness, they recommend that you also take hydrate to make sure that those peptides are fully utilized.

HYDRATE is the first product that I tried. It is my favorite tasting product so far and I am excited about its potential for making wellness. I asked my thirteen year old daughter's pediatrician today if it was ok for her to use it occassionally as she is a runner who definitely does not drink enough water. Her doctor thinks it will be just fine, so I let her try half of a pack today and she also loved the flavor!

If you are interested in more information on the products or the company, I came across this mom’s review and the details that she gives are great! I am just getting started introducing you to the MAKE products, but she reviews them all and the company itself. Check it out at motherhoodtruth.com and then use my link to purchase. https://makewellness.com/rebekah.doran@me.com