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Versalyte: The Better Hydration Solution

Staying hydrated is crucial for athletes and regular gym-goers, yet it's often overlooked, quietly leading to diminished performance.

While drinking water and eating water-rich foods like fruits and vegetables help maintain fluid levels, intense exercise demands more — the replacement of fluids and replenishment of electrolytes.

Understanding this need, PEScience created Versalyte, an advanced electrolyte formula packed with key recovery ingredients to boost hydration and sustain peak performance.

Dive into the benefits of Versalyte and see how each serving supports optimal hydration and recovery to keep you at your best.

A Closer Look at the Ingredients

Each serving of Versalyte delivers generous doses of key electrolytes in highly bioavailable forms and ingredients to promote recovery.

Electrolytes

Electrolytes are cations and anions necessary for skeletal muscle contractions, nerve function, hydration, and regulating pH levels. The major cations include sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

Versalyte provides each in a highly bioavailable form to ensure fast and efficient absorption. Using the chelated forms of these electrolytes — meaning they have been chemically bonded to an organic molecule — also prevents gastrointestinal side effects like diarrhea, bloating, and stomach discomfort commonly caused by inferior forms.

Versalyte also provides phosphorus from calcium and magnesium glycerophosphate. Phosphorus acts as an electrolyte in the body when it combines with oxygen to form phosphate. It also contributes to energy metabolism and the normal function of cell membranes.

Electrolytes are lost through waste elimination (urine and feces) but their loss is accelerated during intense exercise through sweat and breath evaporation.

The loss of electrolytes and body water is known to have a detrimental effect on performance, including when it comes to resistance training, with research showing increasing declines in training volume in even moderately dehydrated people (1).

Other research has shown increases in circulating concentrations of stress hormones (cortisol and norepinephrine), an attenuated testosterone response, and altered carbohydrate and lipid metabolism before and after resistance training in mildly dehydrated people. Over time, these changes could have significant negative implications for building muscle and strength (2).

Tart Cherry Extract and Taurine

In addition to providing key electrolytes, Versalyte provides tart cherry extract and taurine.

Tart cherry extract is rich in numerous antioxidant and anti-inflammatory polyphenol compounds. These compounds have been shown to lessen muscle pain, accelerate strength recovery, and decrease markers of oxidative stress and inflammation (3).

To this point, a review of 14 clinical trials demonstrated that tart cherry supplementation effectively reduced muscle soreness, enhanced muscular strength recovery, and attenuated increases in the inflammatory markers C-reactive protein and interleukin 6. The same review also demonstrated improvements in certain performance parameters like jump height, sprint time, and muscular power (4).

Versalyte also provides an effective dose of taurine, an amino acid with antioxidant activity required for proper muscle functioning and cell membrane health.

Two reviews, each analyzing 10 trials, demonstrated improvements in various exercise tests where taurine supplementation was shown to significantly increase time to exhaustion and power output and decrease muscle fatigue (5,6).

Owing to its importance for muscle health, declines in blood taurine levels are linked with declines in muscle strength (7).

Increasing research also suggests that taurine enhances the body's ability to regulate its core temperature during exercise in the heat to maintain or improve performance (8, 9).

Who Can Benefit from Versalyte?

Versalyte is the perfect solution for anyone who understands the importance of maintaining good hydration, especially around training to prevent declines in performance.

Dehydration occurs when you lose more water than you take in, resulting in a loss of total body water. Anyone can experience dehydration, but active individuals are at an increased risk due to water and electrolyte loss through sweat.

Training in a dehydrated or hypohydrated state is more common than most believe, especially for those who train in the morning.

Dehydration symptoms aren't always obvious but can include increased thirst, dry skin or lips, headaches, and muscle cramps. In more severe instances, dehydration can cause an increased breathing rate and a decrease in body temperature.

Ensuring adequate hydration requires drinking enough fluids but also balancing electrolytes, including magnesium and calcium, which is where Versalyte offers support by increasing hydration speed and efficacy (10).

While fast-digesting carbs like glucose can enhance hydration, sugar isn't needed unless you're training intensely for long periods. This is why Versalyte is sugar-free.

Versalyte comes in a convenient single-serving packet making it easy to add water while on the go or at the gym. It's recommended to mix with 10 to 20 ounces of water.

The Bottom Line

Hydration and electrolyte balance are commonly under-looked but can significantly impair performance when improperly maintained, leading to decreased performance and alterations in metabolism and hormonal responses to exercise.

Versalyte provides the key electrolytes so you can ensure optimal hydration and electrolyte balance. It also provides tart cherry juice extract and taurine to speed up muscle recovery while offering exercise performance benefits.

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Gavin Van De Walle, MS, RD

Gavin Van De Walle holds a master’s degree in human nutrition and exercise physiology. He is also a registered dietitian. Gavin has a bias for the truth and aims to provide the public with the information they need to make educated and informed health decisions. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Healthline, Livestrong, the American Botanical Council, Underwriter Laboratories, Verywell Health, and many more.