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hey guys dr. Berg here I have a question for  you are your sport drinks causing dehydration  

and weight gain yeah this is interesting you  know you have this idea that you’re drinking  

the sports drink and you’re gonna hydrate your  body and it’s gonna help your performance but  

in fact if you look at some of the studies it  doesn’t really help your performance and check  

down below I put some of the studies down below  primarily because most of these sport drinks  

or electrolyte drinks have so much sugar okay  not just Gatorade and by the way Gatorade has  

36 grams of sugar that’s nine teaspoons of sugar  it’s like drinking a soda so the sugar dehydrates  

you why because it depletes minerals and if you  take a diabetic for example that has higher sugar  

they’re peeing a lot and they’re becoming more  dehydrated so this idea that we need glucose I  

think people have this confusion that when they  work out because they’re using up their glycogen  

Reserve or their sugar reserve that they need  to put the sugar back well when you put it in a  

refined state like pure sugar or high fructose  corn syrup or any type of synthetic sugars you  

will deplete potassium magnesium chromium all  the key minerals to help you lower insulin okay  

so so we have the dehydration dehydration part  but now the other part I want to talk about is  

that here you are trying to lose weight right  you’re trying to exercise to lose weight well  

sport drinks nullify the benefits from exercise  because it’s going to raise up your insulin and  

it’s going to block fat-burning so anytime  you consume sugar you could trigger insulin  

block fat burning and then anything extra is  converted to fat okay not to mention the sugar  

making you tired so when you drink this drink  and then you feel this little spike in energy  

and then it’s gonna come down it’s gonna come  crashing down because insulin will be generated  

and then you can end up lowering your blood  sugar so you end up with a high sugar and a  

low sugar okay so I just wanted to kind of  dispel the myth that that’s going to really  

improve your performance and hydrate you when in fact it’s not really doing that so next time  

you get an electrolyte drink and make sure it  doesn’t have the sugar thanks for watching