Why is dehydration so prominent when drinking?
How come hydrating is such an integral part of life, especially when consuming alcohol? Why alcohol not hydrating? This is something that many people may not quite understand because we always learned to drink liquids. So how come when drinking alcohol, you also have to remember to hydrate? This is a topic that, as a college student, I have always been curious about. I always felt that if I am consuming any sort of drink, I am automatically hydrating myself in some way. I found that there was also no alcoholic drink that was hydrating.
However, I was incredibly wrong, when consuming alcoholic beverages, we are instead dehydrating ourselves. This is because alcohol is a diuretic. You may now be asking yourself, what in the world is a diuretic. The dictionary defines this as any substance that increases the production of urine.
Now you might be wondering why in the world this is so important and no, I am not going to go into any more detail regarding going to the bathroom. This is important because when drinking alcohol, your body is now expelling all of the liquids in your body at faster rates. This promotes the loss of key fluids and electrolytes from your body, which in turn leads to dehydration. Being dehydrated while consuming alcohol can be very dangerous, causing your blood alcohol concentration to be more affected from drinking. When remaining hydrated, this dilutes your blood alcohol concentration to reflect more water in it.
How to combat dehydration while drinking
For myself and many, I have always heard the tip to drink a cup of water in between every beverage. This however is incredibly hard for me to track, especially when I am out at a bar socializing. My primary focus when I am out at the bar is not always to get water in between drinks. I also noticed at the bar, I do not typically see many people drinking water between drinks. This is something I have observed time and time again. I even asked my close friends if this is something they practice. Unfortunately, I learned that most people are similar to me. They do not think to get water unless they find themselves excessively thirsty. I felt it was my mission to figure out a solution to this problem.
I realized that a common denominator was that no alcoholic beverages contained electrolyte rich ingredients, that would help with hydration and counteract the aspects of alcohol in being a diuretic. This is how HydraFun was born, out of the lack of products on the market. HydraFun, a hydrating alcohol is the solution to the problem. With ready to drink alcoholic beverages booming on the market right now, it was eye opening to learn that no one thought about making a hydration drink with alcohol. Additionally, I was surprised that with the amount of hydration drinks being launched and marketed for curing hangovers, no one thought about a beverage that could prevent hangovers at the root cause.
HydraFun!
HydraFun is a ready to drink alcoholic beverage which not only has an alcohol by volume content of 5%, but also has ingredients in it to prevent dehydration while consuming and help to prevent the day after hangover. This product is something that I am so proud to have created, and hope that everyone enjoys having fun while being hydrated!