Originally Posted by
Stick69
According to the book Extreme Alpinism by Mark Twight, most sports drinks need to be diluted by half in order to pass out of your stomach. If you dilute it in the bottle or chase it with water you get the benefit right away. If you drink it at full strength your body has to dilute the sports drink by osmosis which will pass water into your stomach which takes time.
Thats not true. Isotonic and slightly hypotonic solutions are best for gastric emptying and absorption in the intestines. Gatorade is isotonic or barely hypertonic as formulated