Science Articles

By: Bill Gookin, No. 16 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration When people think of hypothermia, the condition in which your body temperature is enough below normal that you can’t function normally, they usually think only of the cold. But, usually dehydration plays a major role in hypothermia ... if your blood volume is up to...

By: Bill Gookin, No. 13 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration Altitude sickness or “acute mountain sickness” results from fatigue, dehydration and the low oxygen levels at altitude. Just being at altitude causes you to lose far more fluids than at lower elevations, more than a quart a day just from breathing. When you’re dehydrated, exercise...

By: Bill Gookin, No. 12 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration “I have diabetes; do you make VITALYTE™ without any sugar?” or “Can I drink VITALYTE if I am hypoglycemic?” These and other variations are among the most common questions I have about using VITALYTE and with good reason: people with diabetes and hypoglycemia have problems...

By: Bill Gookin, No. 11 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration Chemotherapy and radiation therapy cause a patient to become very dehydrated from the nausea and diarrhea that result from these treatments, and also because the therapy causes fluid losses into the tissues similar to what happens when you become sick from a virus as each...

By: Bill Gookin, No. 7 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration The first report of Gookinaid™ being used in a medical emergency, came from the 1976 Canada-Pacific Mount McKinley Expedition. They had great success with it on their climb, drinking at least a quart a day, and reporting “no muscle soreness even with 100-lb. packs at...

By: Bill Gookin, No. 6 in a series of occasional reports on wellness and dehydration One of the early symptoms of dehydration is a headache, and almost all headaches are caused by dehydration. These are the “vascular headaches” that we take aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen to relieve. “What about stress? That’s what causes my headaches”, you’ll say. Stress causes the...