Anyone else on the board find Gatorade to be a trigger while on cycle? Thus far I find both beer and Gatorade to be triggers for me while on cycle.

Just curious about the Gatorade, I found it odd.

Jay

Alcohol (in any form) is a trigger.  That has been well established.  I've never heard Gatorade triggering anything.   You didn't by any chance mix the Gatorade with Vodka, did you?    :D

No and I used to really chug that stuff, never found it to bring on the beast. That's why it's so important to keep a good diary with these things, triggers vary so widely from person to person!  ;)

Joe

Hahaha Linda, no Grey Goose with my Gatoraide but it sure triggers my pain badly. So bad in fact that I have stop getting it at the house during cycles.

Maybe is just me but I agree with Guiseppi, the diary is key.

Could be that it throws your electrolyte levels out of whack. The primary ions of electrolytes are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, hydrogen phosphate, and hydrogen carbonate. Look at how many clusterheads take verapamil (a calcium channel blocker) and/or magnesium supplements.

I'm not sure which of these substances are contained in Gatorade. You might want to check the label.

I haven't looked lately, but a decade ago or so, Gatorade was really nothing more than Kool-Aid with a pinch of salt thrown in for 'electrolytes' ... more marketing hype than substance.  

Ok - according to wikianswers, the ingredients are:

water, sugar, table salt, carbohydrates, electrolytes (110 mg sodium, 30 mg potassium, 93 mg chloride), high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, flavors, glucose, fructose, and sugar.

So it doesn't look like things have changed much. A banana has 400 to  600 mg of potassium... 30 mg is not much at all.  The low sodium V8 on my desk has 80 mg of sodium, 3% of the daily allowance.  Again, not a whole lot, no magic.

Maybe its the colorings - the fluorescent green or orange lights up the hypothalamus ...   8-)

Could be a hypersensitivity that you have to one of the ingredients ... good to know and stay away from that.


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[Unusual reactions to food additives] [Article in Italian] Novembre E, Dini L, Bernardini R, Resti M, Vierucci A. Servizio di Allergologia, Clinica Pediatrica 3, Firenze, Italia. The most important symptoms caused by food additives are urticaria and angioedema, but rhinitis, asthma and gastrointestinal disturbances are also reported. Only seldom food additives have been shown to induce symptoms in other organs such central nervous system or joints and with a sparse objective evidence. In this study, we report two cases of unusual reactions to food additives (tartrazine and benzoates) involving mainly the central nervous system (headache, migraine, overactivity, concentration and learning difficulties, depression) and joints (arthralgias), confirmed with diet and double blind challenge. The possible pathogenetic mechanisms are also discussed.