Survivall Sports

Formulated supplementary sports food – Energy supplement

Survivall Sports is an invaluable energy and fluid replacement supplement for sports performance and recovery, especially suitable for cyclists, tri-athletes and marathon runners.   It can be used before, during and after sustained exercise.

Survivall Sports has a high level of pure glucose, the most readily available source of energy to fuel muscles.

Most athletes do not fully replace fluids lost through endurance sports.

As dehydration sets in, performance begins to fall away.  Dehydration severely limits sweating, places dangerous demands on circulation and may have serious health consequences.   Survivall Sports is a pleasant tasting drink which is easy to take to maintain hydration and replace lost body salts.

Survivall Sports has a delicious thirst-quenching apple flavour.  It does not have a salty taste.  It contains no preservatives and no stimulants.

It has a considerable advantage over other commercially available replacement drinks in Australia because, besides it non-salty taste, its proper ion-to-ion ratio more closely resembles body fluid composition than other drinks. 

Other sports drinks only replace sweat lost during exercise whereas Survivall Sports saturates both plasma and muscle with quantity and quality mineral body salts.Survivall Sports contains high sodium and potassium in the correct ratios. Most other sports drinks contain low sodium and practically no usable potassium.

Survivall Sports contains a high level of magnesium. Most other sports drinks contain very little magnesium.

Other sports drinks have a low glucose content whereas Survivall Sports has a high glucose content with a fast delivery system.  In addition Survivall Sports contains buffering systems to help avoid the build up of lactic acid.

Mineral body salts (electrolytes) within body fluid systems

Survivall Sports contains the scientific duplication of essential body salts (electrolytes) in the blood, muscle and body tissue systems.  Without these essential mineral body salts, all living bodies cease to function property.

Survivall Sports incorporates a unique delivery system which closely relates to natural body requirements when under physical stress.

1. Electrolytes are a major component within our body fluid systems which carry nutrients and oxygen to various tissues and organs to maintain life.
2. Electrolytes are used in the body for converting carbohydrate into glucose which is stored as glycogen in the liver or muscle cells as an energy source.
3. Electrolyte exchange between muscle tissue cells is responsible for the ability of the muscle tissues to function efficiently under a prolonged period of work.
4. Electrolytes maintain the body’s osmotic pressure and fluid content within each tissue cell compartment.
5. Electrolytes dispose of the body wastes generated from normal metabolism and by-products generated from stress or physical work.

The Function of Cell Buffer Systems

During muscular activity glucose is utilised as an energy source.  The by-product of glucose metabolism is lactic acid.  Accumulation of lactic acid within tissue cells is the major factor for tiring and lack of stamina to perform work continuously.

Cell buffer systems helps avoid the build up of lactic acid and allow the muscle to completely utilise the glucose stored in the muscles to produce energy for work performance.

Scientific experiments on muscle function have indicated when 25% of the stored glucose within a muscle tissue is used, the accumulation of lactic acid will prevent the muscle from performing work (cramping).  When cell buffer systems are added muscles will resume work until all stored glucose is completely used.

Vitamins C and B6, supported with additional B vitamins

Both of these vitamins are essential for glucose metabolism which gives the body energy to work.  In addition both vitamins detoxify the body waste generated from work and metabolism.

In day to day living the average adult will require 2 to 3 litres of water per day, viz 1 to 1.5L for perspiration and 1 to 1.5L for urine excretion.

Problems arise when a body is placed under abnormal stress, such as caused by exercising for long duration; disease symptoms such as fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and exposure to a hot climate, all of which can cause copious loss of water and electrolytes.

Dehydration severely limits subsequent sweating, places dangerous demands on circulation, reduces exercise capacity and exposes the participant to health hazards associated with hyperthermia, such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion and muscular cramps.

Such fluid and concomitant electrolyte losses need to be replaced quickly and efficiently if decrements to performance and health are to be avoided.Trial results indicate Survivall can have real benefits such as -

1. Lowering of work heart rates during the course of exercise.
2. Substantial decrease in heart rates following a mid-run drink.(Survivall showed a dramatic recovery effect on heart rate from 155 to 135 within 2 minutes when compared with water which reduced from 155 to 147 within 2 minutes.)
3. Better maintenance of blood volume.
4. Plasma volume changes were relatively large with Survivall showing an initial increase after the first drink followed by a decrease during the run and a restorative increase after the recovery drink.
5. Plasma sodium and potassium levels remained very steady.(Better maintenance of blood volume, plasma volume and plasma sodium and potassium resulted in little loss of body weight.)
6. All subjects in the trial expressed their preference for Survivall over water as a replacement fluid.  They found that whilst it was difficult to ingest the recommended volumes of water the same volume of Survivall with its pleasant taste, was readily consumed.  This is very important as under stressful conditions voluntary fluid intake does not keep up with the rate of fluid (sweat) loss.  Replenishment of only one half of the loss is normal.

The relative effects of fluid replacement as opposed to no fluid replacement: