date:Aug 09, 2012
ehydration to athletes and water's insufficiency vis-a-vis sports drinks for rehydration, with the message filtering through to the medical profession (the UK National Health Service, for instance) and schools.
Deconstructing dehydration
But quoting Professor Tim Noakes from Cape Town University, to the extent that dehydration during exercise was not life threatening, Cohen said that, conversely, exercise-related hyponatremia (lack of sodium in body fluids outside cells) was the real concern.