Make Your Own Homemade Sports Drink Without Artificial Ingredients

EpigeneticsAndNutriton.com is a source for optimal health and wellness! Once I learned the truth about the ingredients in Gatorade or Powerade, I immediately started making a homemade sports drink!

I haven’t drank Gatorade in years even though I’m still a very active individual and love to workout. The truth is, the ingredients in both Gatorade and Powerade are garbage and this information needs to be shared. For myself,  I use coconut water or fresh made juice and it hydrates me and replenishes my electrolytes just fine.

I find it disgusting that 40 years ago scientists were paid by certain sports drink companies to tell us we wouldn’t be able to hydrate ourselves with just plain water and that our children didn’t drink enough during meals, or that our performance would drop off during sporting events if we didn’t drink this artificially flavored, colored salt water. 

I also find it ridiculous that some doctors still recommend these nasty drinks that are full of artificial ingredients, to parents with sick children. Take a look at the ingredients in these popular sports drinks:

When you look at the ingredient for each above, it should also motivate you to make your own homemade sports drink as well!

I mean, this just makes me crazy with what they are pushing on the public. Gatorade & Powerade drinks consist of GMOs, artificial food dyes, and synthetic additives. Sounds delicious, doesn’t it? I’ll pass! This homemade sports drink, however, has none only real, natural ingredients that you recognize and can pronounce! And, it’s perfect to have after being in the sun all day, this will hydrate you fast and give you a serious dose of nutrition!

Let’s talk about the nutritional elements of this homemade sports drink to give you an idea of just how powerful it is. This drink has a little more fruit juice than I normally would recommend for green drinks, reason being that you’ll be drinking this after you’ve burned a lot of calories, and lost electrolytes and sweat! If you feel that’s too much fruit juice in your homemade sports drink, just cut the fruit ingredients in right down the middle.

• Watermelon: has a high water content for hydrating you fast and lycopene that helps protect your skin from too much sun exposure.
• Green Apple: delivers potassium and magnesium that helps with headaches linked to dehydration.
• Cucumber: One of the best vegetables for natural hydration.
• Celery: A natural source of sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride, and phosphorus.
• Orange: A high dose of vitamin C that helps boost the immune system.
• Romaine: Another nice dose of magnesium to help prevent dehydration and some calcium for bone health.

Sports Drink Ingredients

• one green apple – cored
• one cup seedless watermelon – chopped
• one half of a cucumber
• two stalks of celery
• one orange – peeled
• two cups chopped romaine lettuce

Make Your Drink

First, of course, rinse all your fruits and vegetables in water first and place into a large bowl. Put all of your ingredients through your juicer. And, clean your juicer right after making your drink. That’s it, ready to enjoy and replenish!

Make sure you always use organic ingredients whenever possible for your homemade sports drink.

If you have a few friends that are still drinking the Gatorade or Powerade garbage, invite them over and just make this for me. Have them experience what a real natural sports drink tastes like, they’ll be hooked!

Cheers!

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