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Most hydration drinks have a strong flavor to cover the salty taste of electrolytes. With Active Hydration, we’ve taken a different approach by carefully balancing acids and bases and Vitamin C to create a neutral-tasting base. This allows Active Hydration’s fruit flavors to shine through cleanly without being overpowering, in keeping with the light flavors you’ve come to expect from Tailwind.

Active Hydration takes advantage of active transport mechanisms found in the small intestine to maximize hydration. Active transport mechanisms act like pumps to move sugars (glucose or fructose), sodium, and water across the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. Active Hydration contains the ingredients needed to activate these transport mechanisms. Hydration drinks lacking sugar can’t take advantage of these active transport mechanisms.

Active Hydration includes grass-fed bovine collagen peptides. Studies of collagen supplementation combined with exercise show promising results improving joint functionality. Vitamin C is a necessary cofactor in collagen synthesis and functions as an antioxidant. This is an emerging area of science. Please see the references HERE for more information.

There’s one word for the aftertaste of typical hydration drinks: Yuck! Most have an overly strong flavor with extra sweetening to cover salty electrolytes. Diet sweeteners are often used to avoid adding calories, leaving a pronounced aftertaste. Active Hydration is different because we start with a neutral base (see Clean, Light Flavor above), lightly sweetened with cane sugar so the fruit flavors shine through cleanly with no funky aftertaste.

Endurance Fuel’s glucose/sucrose fuel takes advantage of how our bodies absorb nutrients. The combination of fuel, electrolytes, and water has a synergistic effect, allowing the body to absorb more of each. Once in the bloodstream, the glucose fuels muscles directly, allowing athletes to go longer at higher intensities.

Not all stomachs can handle the sticky sweetness or hard-to-digest molecules found in most nutrition products. Sipping Tailwind provides steady, small doses of fuel that pass right through the stomach. The composition of Tailwind’s fuel matches what the gut is made to absorb, so Tailwind enters your system quickly, without taxing the digestive tract.

We researched it. We tested it. We asked experts about it, so you don’t have to. Protein during exercise doesn’t improve endurance, but it does correlate with GI distress. Studies show no significant endurance difference between carb-only and carb-protein drinks. Protein is a complex molecule that is hard to digest, potentially shutting down your digestive tract during exercise and causing stomach issues.

Only complete protein is used to rebuild muscle, while incomplete protein is burned as energy or has to be filtered by the kidneys. We start with organic rice protein and supplement with the nine essential amino acids to make a perfectly complete protein. Tailwind Recovery Mix contains 3x more complete protein per gram than whey protein isolate, making it much more efficient for rebuilding muscle and sparing kidneys from extra work during recovery.

Recovery Mix contains sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium to restore electrolyte balance* and replace what you sweat out during your exercise. *Meets WHO hydration standards.