Beat the Water Bloat! WillPowders Delivers Sugar Free Electrolyte Powders with a Diuretic Twist
If you’re wondering how to reduce water bloating yet not end up like a dried up, dehydrated husk in the process, you’ve come to the right blog.
They said it couldn’t be done: striking that delicate balance between an electrolyte drink that hydrates and a diuretic drink that stimulates the liver and kidneys to flush out toxins. They were wrong. Detractors can just sit back down!
The WillPowders mixology wizards have worked their magic. Davinia’s brief was simple - fathom me a sugar free electrolyte drink I can use as a morning recovery drink (or anytime the mood hits me - preworkout, or, you know, that, in office, mid-afternoon slump), make it the best natural energy drink and make sure it flushes some toxins. And make them fruity flavours - citrus, watermelon, cherry - that sort of thing. Oh, and put it in a drink sachet! And, pop some in the Lilac Tipple Tin.
Righto, boss! (Well, she did say please and have that twinkle in her eye!).
A mix of macrominerals and natural, gentle plant diuretics later, and here we are - a long, hot summer ahead of us, sipping pink drinks (with an option for a citrus switch-up). Cue beating bloating. Cue hydration. Cue ElectroTide.
The usual bloating and water retention suspects - planes, perimenopause, PMS, UPFs and other puffy problem makers had better beware!
Get busy with bloating relief! Why ElectroTide is bloat-free friendly:
It’s no bloat - ElectroTide flushes out the old and hydrates with energising electrolytes. Let’s run through their watermelon, citrus and cherry credentials:
1. It’s under a sucralose ban
It’s a sugar free electrolyte powder and a sucralose free zone. If you swig electrolytes with sucralose, expect a mass extinction event for your gut’s good bacteria and prepare for gut bloating. In an attempt to hydrate, you can find yourself getting pumped up in other ways: no one needs sucralose fermenting in their colon and creating gases. Oops! ‘Scuse you!
You won’t need to spare your blushes with WillPowders ElectroTide because we never let sucralose near our products. Our stevia extract is gentle on your gut so it doesn't get in the way of your quest to conquer water retention minus the problem of digestive bloating.
2. It contains extracts of horsetail and dandelion
Busting water retention requires getting rid of excess fluid in our tissues. That job needs gentle diuretics. Luckily, ElectroTide has two.
What are diuretics, anyway?
Gentle diuretics can stimulate the kidneys and liver without causing excessive water loss. Increasing your peeing helps eliminate metabolic waste like urea and toxins via the kidneys and so supports your body’s natural de-toxing.
Dandelion extract is coming to the attention of scientists as a therapeutic diuretic. They’re now realising what we wise women knew all along - it makes you pee more and this is sometimes helpful to combat excess fluids in the body. Additionally, due to the findings of this study, naturopaths sing the praises of dandelion root in helping the liver detox. Bottom line? Dandelion is a great addition to your armory against water retention and, bonus, an ElectroTide tastes much nicer than a dandelion tea. Plus, you don’t have to schlep into the garden to pick your own leaves!
Horsetail extract, rich in flavonoids and minerals, has been used for years as a diuretic. It’s been used to treat mild edema (that’s the very thing we’re talking about - the bit where excess water sits around in tissues). One small study found horsetail was as effective as a medical diuretic without causing significant changes in the levels of electrolytes - it’s why it takes a proud slot in ElectroTide - our hydrating diuretic drink that could help you get the ebb and flow of your internal (electro)tides right!
3. Why can’t I just use a diuretic on its own to conquer water retention?
You could, but, is it wise? Let's consider another diuretic to answer that one. Alcohol will also make you pee, but it switches off your antidiuretic hormone so your body ends up thinking you need to get rid of water, when it actually doesn’t, and it ends up dehydrating you. That will skew your electrolyte balance.
If you’re using a diuretic on its own, you can lose too many electrolytes. Cue feelings of fatigue, low energy, dizziness, brain fog, irritability and anxiety.
Oh, hello, that sounds very much like a hangover!
An ElectroTide on a summer’s day, with its dandelion and horsetail could help shed some fluid, but it also offers your body the best electrolyte salts - such as calcium, magnesium, potassium - to strike a natural balance. Sounds gentler, right? No bulldozing your antidiuretic hormone into submission with our powders! Now that’s the synergy and natural energy drink you’re aiming for!
4. Vitamin B6 helps reduce water retention and Vitamin B5 supports energy
Vitamin B5 and B6 may be neighbours in the vitamin deck, but they do different things. We selected B6 to enhance the taming of hormonal water bloating and B5 to support the creation of energy at a cellular level.
5. Coconut Water Powder: You supply the H2O, we supply the hydration!
We hear you, isn’t water the best drink for hydration? Er, no.
- As long as your kidneys are fine, coconut water is the superior hydration choice to water alone. ElectroTide’s electrolyte powers come partly from coconut water, which hydrates faster than water due to its worker bee electrolytes. Potassium and sodium do plenty of the heavy lifting here.
- Electrolytes are key to restoring fluid balance. Across ElectroTide’s ingredients, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus provide further electrolytes to kick the ass of drinking water alone for hydration properties.
- Sports drinks that boast electrolytes often come with artificial ingredients, sucralose often being a master gut destroyer lurking there, whereas coconut water is nature-made. Love that for you!
- Sweaty exercise, generally being a sweaty Betty, hot weather, hangover? Coconut water is a better hydration tool than water. And if you’ve indulged, drop some Rise and Shine too. We got you!
We cover more about ElectroTide’s power to hydrate and energise in Electrolytes 101: Feeling Like Your Get Up and Go Has Well and Truly Got Up and Gone? But, we’re about to dive into some water retention solutions …
Water retention happens for all sorts of reasons and ElectroTide covers them all:
Plane Rides: Hands up who got on a plane with a finely turned ankle bone fully on show and stepped off asking, WTF did my ankle bones go? That’s cabin pressure and sitting still for you - suddenly a quarter of a litre of body fluid migrates to your legs and feet. It happens on long car rides, too. Or even just sitting about. Cankles can take over a day to go back down. Oooph - unless we’ve packed a floor length kaftan, don’t take us to the beach!
How to reduce bloating: Alcohol makes water retention at altitude worse. Non-alcoholic drinks are always preferable to the bloating caused by a swift one on a flight. But why stop there? A functional non-alcoholic drink is even better! It’s why we suggest a swap from a G&T to an ElectroTide - an E&T, if you will - but get ahead of the bloat with its balanced hydration and diuretic mix. Bottoms up!
Big Food: UPFs often spell big salt content. Although sodium is an electrolyte, too much of it draws water into the bloodstream and tissues. Plus, carbs cause us to store glucose in the form of glycogen with water at a ratio of 1:4, or, worse, 1:3. That salted caramel snack? Sodium and glycogen in a ballgown: a fluid retention magnet. Puffing heck!
How to reduce bloating: Help flush some of that excess sodium out with Electrotide’s gentle diuretic extracts of horsetail and dandelion. That watermelon, cherry or citrus deliciousness is also sugar free so there’s no need to store more glycogen!
Hormones: Hormones (don’t you just know it) cause perimenopause water retention. PMS gets involved. Our boobs are over-filled water balloons that feel like they’re about to go off into orbit. Deflate us now!
How to reduce bloating: B6 and magnesium have been shown to help that premenstrual blow up. If you’re looking for a way to smooth out hormonal bloating, ElectroTide has got you covered with both to help you prepare for PMS week or those water retaining times in perimenopause.
Dehydration: Gone for a lovely summer walk but come back with puffy fingers? That’s dehydration. Yup - too little water can make the body hang on to the fluid it does have. Counterintuitive, we know, but it’s one of the reasons WillPowders ElectroTide contains electrolytes and diuretics - we don’t want over-stuffed sausage fingers on your romantic hike. Not on our watch!
How to reduce bloating: Take an electrolyte as a morning recovery drink (in summer we sweat all night so we lose a surprising amount of fluids) to start the day and side step swollen fingers later or take an electrolyte sachet on the hike up the hill in our Mixer. It’ll help your body find its equilibrium, rather than using your hands (and around your eyes, too - bee stung lips, yes, bee stung eyes? No!) as water storage.
Spread the word: it’s possible for a drink to be hydrating and diuretic, if it’s ElectroTide
We’ve heard all the gossip, the detractors, the nay-sayers that hydration and flushing excess fluids can’t go hand in hand. You’ve probably heard them, too.
Pah! To those people we say, do your homework, because we always do ours.
ElectroTide = Hydration + Diuretics = a solution to mild water retention.
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