SUSTAIN® SPORT

The low-calorie sports drink with four electrolytes to help you rehydrate, rebound, and recover.

THE NEED
The loss of water, electrolytes, and energy when exercising can cause elevated body
temperature, headaches, tiredness, and poor concentration.
SUSTAIN SPORT Berry Burst COMPETITIVE SOLUTIONS
Drinking a lot of water without replacing the critical electrolytes you’ve lost may put you at
Nutrition Facts risk for hyponatremia—a potentially fatal condition. Sports drinks are a little better than water,
Serving Size 1 scoop (8g/16 fl oz) but may contain only two electrolytes and as many as 120 calories per serving.
Servings Per Container30
THE MELALEUCA SOLUTION
Amount % Daily
Per Serving Value* Sustain Sport replaces four critical electrolytes you lose through exercising—twice as many
Calories 30 electrolytes as Gatorade® Thirst Quencher Original Orange. Plus, with its proprietary blend
of fructose and ribose, Sustain Sport weighs in at only 30 calories per serving—1/4 the
Total Fat 0g 0%
calories of some sports drinks.
Cholesterol 0 mg 0%
Sodium 80 mg 3% THE MELALEUCA VALUE
Total Carbohydrate 7g 2% A 24 fl. oz. bottle of Gatorade® can cost up to $1.00 or more. A 24 fl. oz. serving of
Sugar 3g Sustain Sport costs only 51¢.
Protein 0g

Vitamin A 0% : Vitamin E 35% Anytime you go for a run, sweat it out in the gym, or play a few sets of tennis, you
Vitamin C 15% : Vitamin B12 110% naturally lose hydration, critical electrolytes, and energy. During intense exercise, sweat
Calcium 0% : Magnesium 4% loss can exceed two liters per hour! Dehydration’s negative consequences include reduced
Iron 0% : oxygen supply to muscle cells, impaired heat exchange, headaches, tiredness, and poor
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concentration. Dehydration negatively impacts both your health and your performance.
* Percent Daily Values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Not significant source of saturated fat, dietary fiber, choleserol. Your Thirst Mechanism
Ingredients: PureBlend Flavor Complex™ (Maltodextrin, Simple thirst is not a good indicator that you’re dehydrated. For example, in the guidelines
Fructose, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sucralose, for U.S. soldiers deployed around the world, it is stated that “thirst is a poor indicator of
Vitamin B12, D-ribose), Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Sodium
Citrate, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Lactate, dehydration. Soldiers do not sense when they are dehydrated and usually do not replace
Silicon Dioxide, Magnesium Oxide,d-Alpha-Tocopherol body water losses, even when drinking water is readily available. Soldiers under stress in
Acetate, Carmine added for color, and Ascorbic Acid.
hot environments will exhibit ‘voluntary dehydration.’ They maintain themselves about 1.5
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For other Sustain Sport ingredients, see Appendix. quarts below their ideal hydration status without any sense of thirst.”
Granted, pumping iron in the gym or playing 18 holes of golf is not anywhere near as
DIRECTIONS stressful as serving in the military! However, trusting your thirst mechanism and your risk
To make a single serving, mix 1 scoop of for dehydration when you’re exercising are the same.
Sustain Sport with 2 cups of cold water. Mix
2 scoops with 4 cups of water to make one What Are Electrolytes?
quart. Mix 4 scoops with 8 cups of water to Water is great at keeping you hydrated during short exercise periods. But when you’re
make 2 quarts. Mix 8 scoops with a gallon really pushing it, water just doesn’t give you what you need—critical electrolytes. Minerals
of water to make one gallon. like calcium, sodium, magnesium, and potassium are known as electrolytes. These minerals
dissolve in the intra (inside) and extra (outside) cellular water as charged particles and
APPROVED! they are responsible for regulating the electrical charge and flow of water across cell
Sustain Sport meets the guidelines set membranes. Electrolytes are absolutely essential for the proper functioning of each cell.
by the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) for use by its athletes.
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 LIKE ATHLETES, SUSTAIN SPORT
THRIVES ON COMPETITION* Sustain Sport contains a proprietary electrolyte complex of calcium, magnesium, sodium,
SUSTAIN® SPORT GATORADE® POWERADE ®
and potassium. These four electrolytes:
BERRY BURST LEMON LIME MOUNTAIN BLAST< s REHYDRATE YOUR CELLS
Calories 30 120 140 s MAXIMIZE MUSCLE PERFORMANCE
Sodium (mg) 60 220 50 s HELP CONVERT CARBOHYDRATES INTO ENERGY
Potassium (mg) 35 60 60 s MINIMIZE MUSCLE TISSUE BREAKDOWN
Carbs (g) 7 30 36
Sugars (g) 2 28 30 Unlike plain water, these nutrients step in to replace the electrolytes you naturally lose
Calcium 2% 0% 0% during exercise and while you sweat. Grocery store brand sport drinks may only contain
Magnesium 4% 0% 0% two electrolytes—Sustain Sport gives you twice as many!
Vitamin C 15% 0% 0%
Natural Vitamin E 15% 0% 0% Four Electrolytes, Low Calories
Vitamin B12 100% 0% 20% Besides missing the mark with the number of electrolytes, grocery store sports drinks
can contain large amounts of simple sugars such as dextrose and corn syrup as the major
* Amounts based on 16 fl. oz. serving.
Product names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. sources of carbohydrate. These syrupy sweet mixtures lead to blood sugar spikes. Plus, too
much simple sugar draws water into the intestines and away from the rest of your body—
leaving you further dehydrated.
Sustain Sport is different because it does exactly what it says—sustains you during
“My family is very athletic, and we have
exercise and training. With its exclusive blend of fructose and ribose, Sustain Sport helps
always been big Gatorade drinkers. I
with proper and steady rehydration and reduced muscle fatigue—without radical blood
recently bought the Berry Burst Sustain
sugar highs or lows.
Sport. Before trying any, I read the label
Studies have looked at which particular type of carbohydrate solution is most effective
and was happy to see that there were only
when rehydration is critical. According to researchers, increasing a drink’s carbohydrate
2 grams of sugar per 16 ounces compared
content increases the amount of energy available to the muscles. Unfortunately, high
to Gatorade’s 28 grams of sugar per 16
carbohydrate content also tends to decrease the rate at which water can be made available
ounces! Anyway, I made a pitcher and my
to the body. This can prevent proper rehydration during prolonged exercise. Studies have
family came to see me one by one. Each
shown that using ingredients like fructose allows for more carbohydrates—without a
asked what was in the pitcher that tasted 3
reduction in water absorption.
so good. That same day, my nephew had
Sustain Sport contains only 30 calories per serving—that’s 1/4 the calories of Gatorade®
an All-Star baseball game. I brought some
Thirst Quencher Original Orange. With Sustain Sport, you get maximum boost with
Sustain Sport for him and noticed that his
minimal calories!
entire team kept drinking from his drink
in the dugout. They won the game, and
Sustain Sport Has Vitamins Too
my nephew specifically asked me to make
In addition to the electrolyte complex and exclusive blend of fructose and ribose, Sustain
another pitcher of Sustain Sport for his next
Sport also has natural vitamin E, vitamin C, and 100% of the Daily Value of vitamin
game.” Michelle McAllister, Castaic, California
B12. Few grocery store brands have vitamins—and plain water doesn’t have any. (See
comparison chart at left.)

Refreshing Taste, Easy Mixing

SUPPORTING RESEARCH With no carbonation getting in the way of great taste, Sustain Sport mixes with water
1. Jones Chan and Claudia O’Donnell, “Ingredients pitch
in for performance-enhancing products,” The Science of
and is available in two delicious flavors—Berry Burst and Lemon Blast.
Stamina, June 1, 2001.
2. U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command Reach a New Peak of Performance
website: http://www.usariem.army.mil/somalia/heat.htm. According to Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, you can compete at your best for 37%
3. Murray R, Paul G, Seifert J, “The effects of glucose, longer after chugging a performance drink when compared with drinking water. Gulp
fructose, and sucrose ingestion during exercise,” Medicine
& Science in Sport & Exercise,” Vol. 21, No. 3, 1989,
down a Sustain Sport every time you exercise for optimal hydration and recovery! 
p. 275–282.

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