REVIVE is a healthier hydration product. It does not have sugar, colouring, additives and chemicals that are common in many brands.
We use real, unprocessed salt from the ancient Kalahari Desert, complete with trace minerals. Our flavours are natural and carefully sourced. And our electrolyte levels are scientifically backed, with more sodium and magnesium than usual, and enough potassium to hydrate cells but not interfere with heart rhythm.
Most health conscious people don’t get enough electrolytes. This is especially true if you’re physically active. Water alone doesn’t hydrate. We need the minerals with the water.
REVIVE helps you feel better, function better and perform better. With 8 flavours to choose from, there’s a great-tasting option for everyone. Our 9th flavour is actually a non-flavour, called RAW – unsweetened and paired down to the basics. It doesn’t taste as good but it’s a super-clean product.
REVIVE contains no chemicals, colouring, fillers or artificial ingredients. The main electrolyte ingredients are sodium chloride, potassium chloride and magnesium malate.
Sodium citrate and calcium carbonate (also electrolytes) are used to soften the tartness of the salts. We use a high-quality, natural, spray-dried flavour for the great taste and aroma.
Stevia balances the saltiness. It is one of the few natural, non-caloric, non-glycemic sweeteners. It has no effect on blood sugar or insulin. Stevia doesn’t have a lingering after-taste, and because stevia is exceptionally sweet, a tiny amount is used.
The final ingredient is citric acid, necessary to ensure freshness and preserve quality.
Both your body and brain need electrolytes. Reduction in concentration and cognitive ability is an early sign of dehydration.
Drinking REVIVE will improve your mental and physical performance and your overall well-being. You’ll get:
Healthy Diets: REVIVE helps those eating lower carb (keto, paleo, carnivore, whole-food) to avoid fatigue and headaches. It stops annoying muscle cramps and helps to maintain energy and focus. If you feel better, you’re much more likely to succeed with your healthy lifestyle.
Intermittent Fasting: REVIVE is friendly for most types of fasting, with no sugar, calories or artificial ingredients. It doesn’t impact your blood sugar or insulin response, yet it helps mitigate hunger, fatigue and brain fog, allowing you to fast longer and stronger. Learn more about different types of fasting here.
Exercise Performance: REVIVE is ideal for electrolyte replacement during and after physical activity, so you can keep muscles moving, maintain concentration and prevent cramps. REVIVE replenishes actual sodium lost through sweat. Proper hydration also aids recovery. Our clean, no-sugar formulation is healthier, tastes great and helps you burn more fat.
The answer depends who you are and what you’re doing. Here’s some guidance:
Healthy diets and intermittent fasting: Most people prefer hydrating in the morning, soon after waking. Sip slowly over your day. 1 – 2 sachets per day depending on how you feel and how much physical activity you’re doing.
Strict water-only fasting: REVIVE Raw can be consumed during your fast but flavoured REVIVE should be consumed before or after a strict fast, not during. 1 – 2 sachets per day.
Religious fasting: it’s important to hydrate before a fast and continue hydrating after. Consume during the fast only if permitted. 1 – 2 sachets per day.
Exercise performance: You can start REVIVE before a workout but most people prefer drinking during or after. For endurance events, REVIVE MUST be consumed during, to maintain hydration and prevent muscle cramps. 1 sachet per 2 hours of sweating and 1 sachet for recovery.
Gym workouts involving strength training and HIIT less than 2 hours: drink during if you feel comfortable. Some people prefer plain water during intense workouts, in which case use REVIVE afterwards to replenish hydration and aid recovery.
Sickness involving diarrhoea or vomiting, sip slowly over the course of illness.
Breastfeeding: 1 – 2 sachets per day.
Sauna: 1 sachet per half hour.
Click here to see our preloading or race performance protocol.
Do not exceed 3 sachets per day except for long endurance events such is iron-man and ultra-distance running.
Not at all. REVIVE is designed for health conscious people of all types, but especially those eating a clean, healthy, real-food diet that is lower in processed food, sugar and refined carbohydrates. It doesn’t need a label.
Here are some other great reasons to take REVIVE:
REVIVE is perfect. We have many T1d customers using it, including some accomplished athletes. REVIVE is non-glycemic and won’t change insulin requirements – it’s as if you drank water (from a glucose / insulin perspective) but REVIVE gives you the electrolytes and hydration that is needed.
REVIVE is also gut friendly as it doesn’t have chemicals and artificial sweeteners or sugar alcohols that many people can’t tolerate.
REVIVE also tastes good – it’s not like a medicine and it replaces sugary drinks nicely for kids. Speaking of kids, if your child is T1d, please also read the FAQ on the suitability for children.
Not recommended if you have hypertension, kidney disease or take diuretic medication. Check with your healthcare professional if you have an existing medical condition or take medication. This product does not treat any medical condition or deficiency.
The “rules” for fasting are nuanced and not everyone agrees. There are also different fasting protocols and definitions – they are, after all, man-made constructs and not scientific principles.
The majority of the fasting community accepts that you should not consume any calories during a fast, nor anything that causes a rise in blood sugar or a response in insulin. These are the 3 key criteria. Our interpretation follows this thinking, making REVIVE suitable for regular intermittent fasting, 16:8, 12:6 etc.
Some people argue that stevia and flavour (used in REVIVE) signal the brain in an undesirable way and aren’t in keeping with the spirit of fasting. We don’t share this view. Most, including medical experts and scientists in the field, accept that black coffee, black tea, green tea, water and clean electrolytes like REVIVE don’t break a fast.
Some also endorse bone broth, even though it contains calories because the fat helps contain hunger and doesn’t cause a rise in blood sugar or insulin, and the vitamins and minerals help with fasting.
Water-only fasting and fasting for autophagy are stricter protocols. For these methods, we suggest flavoured REVIVE before or after, but not during, a fast.
REVIVE RAW is appropriate for all types of fasting, even water-only fasting.
On our packaging, we have a warning saying REVIVE is not appropriate for people with hypertension. Regulations require that we do so. However, this space allows us to give a more comprehensive and considered response to a topic that cannot be dealt with in a sentence.
Stage 1 hypertension is blood pressure more than 130/80 mm Hg. Some people have elevated blood pressure (higher than normal) that is not yet in the category of hypertension. This FAQ applies to both elevated blood pressure and hypertension. The higher your blood pressure, the more conservative you should be, as a matter of common sense.
Most (but not all) of the medical establishment holds the view that sodium increases blood pressure and low salt diets have been a cornerstone of conventional medical advice for decades. REVIVE has a relatively high level of sodium. So, the idea that someone would take REVIVE with higher blood pressure, is anathema to most in the healthcare profession.
Yet, like many other things long regarded as bad for you – for example saturated fat, eggs and butter – the world is changing. New, contrary evidence is emerging, leading voices in the scientific community are speaking out with a different message and many members of the public are taking their health into their own hands and getting great results with a contrarian approach.
It turns out that conventional guidelines have often been wrong, and have sometimes been harmful. We think that salt falls into this category. The simple idea that “salt is bad” is not universally correct and is definitely more nuanced than originally thought.
Many respected, thoughtful doctors and scientists are now advising that salt is not bad, and, in fact, that low salt is harmful and can raise blood pressure. This makes things thoroughly confusing.
We are not here to give medical advice. We are not allowed to do so, and nothing in this FAQ should be construed as such, but here is our interpretation, made as simple as we can. It is taken from sources like Dr Richard Johnson (Nature Wants Us To Be Fat), one of the world’s blood pressure experts, and many others:
So, here are some tips for using REVIVE safely and cautiously if you choose to do so with higher blood pressure:
As a last point, there is evidence pointing to 5g of sodium per day (which is 13.8g of salt) as being the optimum level, even for people with known cardiovascular risk (which includes people with higher blood pressure). Most people aren’t getting near this level, even with REVIVE, which has 1g of sodium per sachet.
We hope this answer provides some context for you to make your own judgment and to use REVIVE safely if you choose to do so.
REVIVE RAW is the unflavoured, unsweetened version of our popular daily electrolytes.
REVIVE RAW has no stevia, no flavour, no citric acid, no sodium citrate and no calcium carbonate.
It is stripped to the bare essence, but it does have exactly the same electrolyte levels and ratios as our flavoured versions.
And it is powered by one of the world’s healthiest salts – Oryx Desert Salt. Buy it for the function, not the taste.
Who should use REVIVE RAW?
Options for using REVIVE RAW?
Consider adding:
REVIVE RAW can also be added to:
Mix sachet powder with 750ml water. Shake or stir well until contents dissolve. Add more water to dilute taste or use less water for a stronger taste. Add ice for an extra refreshing chill.
It varies by individual and by what you’re doing. It’s essential to understand that REVIVE is designed to enhance your daily electrolyte intake, not to replace it.
Our sodium and magnesium levels are set at 20% of daily requirements for healthy people and our potassium is set at 4.25%.
There are 3 good reasons potassium is lower: 1 – we lose much less through sweat and other activities, 2 – it’s easier to get from food and 3 – potassium in liquid form should be kept lower as it can affect heart rhythm and cause palpitations.
For most people, 1 sachet of REVIVE daily is ideal unless you’re very active. Please see our detailed guideline in the FAQ: When and how much REVIVE should I drink?
Do not exceed 3 sachets per day except for long endurance events such is iron-man and ultra-distance running.
For the longest time sodium has been vilified. Excess salt, we were told, raises blood pressure, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Things have changed. Yet, despite new science that debunks the myth that salt is bad for everyone, many people, including medical professionals, are locked in the past. Old dogma doesn’t die easily.
An often-quoted study, published in 2011, in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that our official guidelines for sodium are out of whack. If reading scientific papers isn’t your thing, there are 3 important takeaways:
1. Too LITTLE salt is actually dangerous.
2. Too much salt occurs at more than 8g of sodium per day (that’s 21g of salt).
3. The sweet-spot, or lowest risk of cardiovascular disease, is 5g of sodium per day (13g of salt), more than DOUBLE the official recommendation.
* Importantly, sodium is not the same as the salt. Regular salt – the stuff we sprinkle onto our food – is sodium chloride (NaCl). The amount of sodium in sodium chloride is about 38%. So, to get 5g of sodium, you need to consume 13g of salt. This is a critical point often lost on people who aren’t doing chemistry for a living.
For an in-depth look at salt, The Salt Fix, by Dr James DiNicolantonio, provides an extensively researched view on why we can erase our guilt for this important mineral. For something shorter than a whole book, here is an excellent article by Dr Jason Fung, called The Truth About Salt, from the always reliable Diet Doctor website.
If salt is ok for unhealthy folks, what about healthy people? After all, the JAMA study was done on people at high risk for cardiovascular disease. Are the needs of health-conscious people different from the average couch potato? It turns out the answer is yes, and that’s where REVIVE comes in.
REVIVE Daily Electrolytes isn’t for everyone. REVIVE is designed for active, health-conscious people. We hope one of them is you!
All content and references on this website are strictly for informational purposes and should not be construed as medical, nutritional or health advice. Please seek the advice of a healthcare professional before changing your diet, embarking on any type of fasting regime or consuming supplements or electrolytes. This is particularly important if you take medication or have a chronic health condition.
REVIVE SHOULD NOT be used if you have hypertension, kidney disease or take diuretic medication.
Hydration is important during pregnancy due to the extra fluid and nutrient transport requirements of pregnant women, not to mention morning sickness.
REVIVE is safe for normal, healthy pregnancies, especially if you’re physically active, but even if you’re not.
Our product is well-suited to pregnancy because of our functional mineral levels and the absence of sugar and chemicals. Plus, our sodium is natural, unprocessed and unpolluted.
IMPORTANT Note: REVIVE should not be used by anyone with kidney disease, hypertension or taking diuretic medication. Additionally, we advise caution and medical advice if a pregnant mom has oedema (swelling), water retention or preeclampsia.
Here is a really useful Instagram post from an excellent US company on hydration during pregnancy.
YES, 100%. There are some very good reasons to hydrate with electrolytes during breastfeeding. The fluid replacement requirements for mom are obvious but fatigue and disrupted sleep are other good reasons to hydrate properly. The mineral requirements for your baby are equally important.
There is excellent evidence that sodium enhances breastmilk production. REVIVE’s clean, no sugar, no chemicals formulation is ideal for healthy moms and babies.
See our article for a deeper dive on hydration for breastfeeding.
REVIVE is safe for children. However, the amount taken should be reduced in proportion to body weight. Here’s some practical guidance:
Children under 4 years old: Mix one sachet with 1L of water and split into 4 x 250ml portions. Use 250ml per day.
Children between 4 – 10 years old: Mix one sachet with 1L of water and split into 2 x 500ml portions. Use 500ml per day.
For diarrhea, vomiting or vigorous activity involving sweating, the above amounts can be doubled and should be sipped slowly.
The short answer is no, REVIVE won’t prevent or cure a hangover. Hangovers are complicated physiologically. And despite products that make such claims, nothing else will either.
However, dehydration is a significant part of what makes you feel cr*p and alcohol is accompanied by specific fluid, sodium and magnesium loss. REVIVE will make a big difference to how you feel, and how you perform the next day. Many customers attest to it firsthand.
We suggest taking 1 sachet in 750ml water before going to bed. Repeat that when you wake up, if you’re not feeling your best. But, ideally speaking, you want to sip REVIVE while you’re drinking. The earlier you start hydration, the better.
Dr Andrew Huberman’s recommendation is two glasses of water with electrolytes per alcoholic drink, so let’s call it 1 sachet of REVIVE with 750ml – 1L of water for every 4 drinks. Your body will thank you.
Take a look at our article or see our Instagram post for information on this topic.
Yes, our formula is vegan friendly. REVIVE contains no ingredients of an animal nature. Most of our formulation contains minerals which are neither plants nor animals – minerals exist naturally in the earth and are “harvested” and processed for consumption. Our flavours and stevia are plant-based.
Is REVIVE Halaal?
REVIVE Daily Electrolytes have been certified Halaal since August 2023.
You can contact them through the following methods:
Email – hello@getrevive.co.za
WhatsApp – 079 479 0099
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